Crossword-Solution: SENESCENT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Senescent | a. | Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SENESCENT | anagram | SENTENCES |
We have 7 clues for the answer “SENESCENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Heading into old age | 1 answer |
| Not getting any younger | 2 answers |
| GETTING older | 3 answers |
| ageing | 3 answers |
| growing old | 5 answers |
| Getting on in years | 9 answers |
| Aging | 14 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with SENESCENT (5)
The book never was published; it was merely printed to satisfy the senescent vanity of a property-worshiping, cliche-parroting reactionary who made money ranching before he became governor of Wyoming.
Thrones rose and fell; and still the crescent, Unsanative and now senescent, A plastered skeleton of lath, Looked forward to a day of wrath.
Well, my boy, I was behind a hedge sunning myself one day last week, and along comes a man saying in a pleasant, conceited way of talking: “‘And now when the night was senescent’ (says he) ‘And the star dials pointed to morn At the end of the path a liquescent’ (says he) ‘And nebulous lustre was born.’ “So I poked my eyes up over the hedge, but you had started to run, for some unknown reason, and so I saw but the back of your beautiful head.
And now, as the night was senescent, And star-dials pointed to morn— As the star-dials hinted of morn— At the end of our path a liquescent And nebulous lustre was born, Out of which a miraculous crescent Arose with a duplicate horn— Astarte’s bediamonded crescent, Distinct with its duplicate horn.
And now as the night was senescent, And star-dials pointed to morn, And car-drivers hinted of morn, At the end of the path a liquescent And bibulous lustre was born; 'Twas made by the bar-keeper present, Who mixed a duplicate horn,-- His two hands describing a crescent Distinct with a duplicate horn.
Quotes with SENESCENT (1)
Rumors had their own classic epidemiology. Each started with a single germinating event. Information spread from that point, mutating and interbreeding — a conical mass of threads, expanding into the future from the apex of their common birthplace. Eventually, of course, they'd wither and die; the cone would simply dissipate at its wide end, its permutations senescent and exhausted. There were exceptions, of course. Every now and then a single thread persisted, grew thick and…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1981–2012).