Crossword-Solution: POORHOUSE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Poorhouse | n. | A dwelling for a number of paupers maintained at public expense; an almshouse; a workhouse. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “POORHOUSE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Over the Hill to the ___." | 1 answer |
| Destitution, metaphorically | 1 answer |
| Home for the indigent | 1 answer |
| Last stop, financially. | 1 answer |
| Oliver Twist's birthplace | 1 answer |
| One-time charitable home | 1 answer |
| Pauper's place, once | 1 answer |
| Place for the down-and-out, once | 1 answer |
| ALMSHOUSE | 4 answers |
| Part 4 of remark | 28 answers |
| destitution | 43 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
CEMAZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with POORHOUSE (5)
People said that he'd orter go to the poorhouse, so that when he was sick--which was pretty much all the time--he'd have somebody to take care of him.
Pomeroy, “that Deacon Pinkerton holds a mortgage on her furniture.” “The deacon wants to send Frank and his sister to the poorhouse.” “That would be a pity.” “I should think so; but Frank positively says he won’t go.” “I am afraid there isn’t anything else for him.
Dickey Daw drank his family into the poorhouse, an institution which sent Sophie to fend for herself in 1805, procuring her a place as servant at a farm on the island.
One forlorn fragment of dollanity had belonged to Jo and, having led a tempestuous life, was left a wreck in the rag bag, from which dreary poorhouse it was rescued by Beth and taken to her refuge.
She caught herself criticizing his belief that, since his joke about trying to keep her out of the poorhouse had once been accepted as admirable humor, it should continue to be his daily bon mot.
Quotes with POORHOUSE (3)
From flophouse bed To poorhouse bread, all outhouse sorrow: I thee wed.
The goal is to build a profitable business, not maintain an expensive hobby that will leave you in the poorhouse.
I'll be living quietly in a house somewhere in the suburbs, enjoying a peaceful existence not writing the book I'm not writing now and, so as to continue not doing so, I will come up with different excuses from the ones I use now to avoid actually confronting myself. Or else I'll be interned in a poorhouse, content with my utter failure, mingling with the riffraff who believed they were geniuses when in fact they were just beggars with dreams, mixing with the anonymous mass o…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1951–2014).