Crossword-Solution: MILITATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Militate | v. i. | To make war; to fight; to contend; -- usually followed by against and with. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “MILITATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Be directed (against). | 1 answer |
| Have effect, pro or con | 1 answer |
| Have influence (against) | 1 answer |
| Have weight (against) | 1 answer |
| Of things, to have effect (against). | 1 answer |
| Operate (against). | 1 answer |
| Weigh heavily | 1 answer |
| ___ against (have effect) | 1 answer |
| BRING ABOUT AN EFFECT OR CHANGE | 11 answers |
| Weigh | 32 answers |
| Contend | 37 answers |
| Serve | 72 answers |
| BATTLE ___ | 86 answers |
| Influence | 95 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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.
Hint 2 anagram
CEAMZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MILITATE (5)
The wily Malay had long refrained from pillaging the Ithaca for fear such an act might militate against the larger villainy he purposed perpetrating against her white owner, but when he rounded the point and came in sight of the stranded wreck he put all such thoughts from him and made straight for the helpless hulk to glean whatever of salvage might yet remain within her battered hull.
But it was a matter of great consolation to her, that what brought evil to herself would bring good to her sister; and Elinor, on the other hand, suspecting that it would not be in her power to avoid Edward entirely, comforted herself by thinking, that though their longer stay would therefore militate against her own happiness, it would be better for Marianne than an immediate return into Devonshire.
Any man who attains a high place among you, from the President downwards, may date his downfall from that moment; for any printed lie that any notorious villain pens, although it militate directly against the character and conduct of a life, appeals at once to your distrust, and is believed.
This accidental advantage was skilfully improved, the violence of the storm was magnified by the superstitious terrors of the Gauls; and they yielded without shame to the invisible powers of heaven, who seemed to militate on the side of the pious emperor.
They had great difficulty to keep their poverty a secret from the world; but they managed to bear privation without murmuring, from a conviction that if the fact were known, it would militate very much against their pretensions.
Quotes with MILITATE (3)
The origin behind myths and religion is human terror of annihilation. Human societies invented mythology and religion in order to militate against people’s fear of living a mortal life. People fear time as a destroyer of human happiness, human beings, and human societies.
And there are many people, both Moslem and Christian, who have a good grasp of each others0 conceptions of surrender to God an other principles. But the widespread existence of bias, misinformation and lack of knowledge (…) militate against the effectiveness of dialogue, (…) by the most subtle and one of the most effective of instruments, the subconscious, almost the subliminal, introduction of hostility.
But it was a matter of great consolation to her, that what brought evil to herself would bring good to her sister; and Elinor, on the other hand, suspecting that it would not be in her power to avoid Edward entirely, comforted herself by thinking, that though their longer stay would therefore militate against her own happiness, it would be better for Marianne than an immediate return into Devonshire.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1956–2007).