Crossword-Solution: LETHE 5 letters, 69 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Lethe n. Death.
Lethe n. A river of Hades whose waters when drunk caused
forgetfulness of the past.
Lethe n. Oblivion; a draught of oblivion; forgetfulness.

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LETHE anagram ETHEL, HELET, HETEL

We have 69 clues for the answer “LETHE”

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River in Dante's "Inferno" 1 answer
Hades river of forgetfulness 1 answer
Hades' amnesic river. 1 answer
Hades's river 1 answer
Infernal flower? 1 answer
Mythical Hades River of Forgetfulness 1 answer
Mythical river of forgetfulness 1 answer
River through Hades 1 answer
Mythological river in Hades 1 answer
River of forgetfulness in Greek myth 1 answer
One of the five rivers of Hades. 1 answer
River that the dead drank from, in myth 1 answer
River in "The Divine Comedy" 1 answer
Hades stream. 1 answer
River in a forgettable trip? 1 answer
River in hades (myth.) 1 answer
River of 1 answer
River of Hades, causing forgetfulness. 1 answer
River of forgetfulness 1 answer
River of forgetfulness in Hades 1 answer
River of forgetfulness, in myth 1 answer
River of myth where one drinks to forget 1 answer
River that causes people to forget 1 answer
River of oblivion 1 answer
River on the border of Elysium 1 answer
River that all travelers forget about after going down it 1 answer
"The Divine Comedy" river 1 answer
of oblivion river 1 answer
a river in Hades 1 answer
Waters of oblivion 1 answer
Thirst and memory quencher of mythology 1 answer
The waters of oblivion. 1 answer
Source of water for the dead 1 answer
STREAM of oblivion 1 answer
River through Hypnos' chamber 1 answer
"Inferno" river 1 answer
Hades flower 1 answer
Arm of the Styx. 1 answer
Army missions, briefly 1 answer
Drinking from it helped people forget things 1 answer
FORGETFULNESS, river of 1 answer
Forgetful river? 1 answer
Hadean river. 1 answer
HADES river of forgetfulness of the past (myth.) 1 answer
Hadean river of oblivion. 1 answer
Hadean river from which the dead drank 1 answer
A river of Hades 2 answers
River of the underworld 2 answers
Underworld river 2 answers
Infernal river 2 answers
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with LETHE (5)

Farr off from these a slow and silent stream, _Lethe_ the River of Oblivion roules Her watrie Labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
What should he live for? A dull despair! Drink is his master and drags him down, Water of Lethe that drowns all care.
The Man from Snowy River Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson 1995
For the plain is parched By flax-crop, parched by oats, by poppies parched In Lethe-slumber drenched.
The Georgics Virgil 2008
Will you take a draught of Lethe?” As he spoke, the virtuoso took from the shelf a crystal vase containing a sable liquor, which caught no reflected image from the objects around.
Mosses from an Old Manse Nathaniel Hawthorne 1996
When, by long degrees, the shock of outer life jarred and woke him, it was feebly done: he came back reluctant, weak: the quiet clinging to him, as if he had been drowned in Lethe, and had brought its calming mist with him out of the shades.
Margret Howth, A Story of To-day Rebecca Harding Davis 1996

Quotes with LETHE (3)

Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
John Milton Paradise Lost
Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state ... Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly.
Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain
People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have seen that look on their own faces. I have noticed it on my face and I notice it now on others. The look is one of extreme vulnerability, nakedness, openness. It is the look of someone who walks from the ophthalmologist's office into the bright daylight with dilated eyes, or of someone who wears glasses and is suddenly made to take them off. These people who have lost someone l…
Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
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Used 141 times in crossword archives (1947–2024).