Crossword-Solution: SYNCOPATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Syncopate | v. t. | To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester." |
| Syncopate | v. t. | To commence, as a tone, on an unaccented part of a measure, and continue it into the following accented part, so that the accent is driven back upon the weak part and the rhythm drags. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Accent the off-beats | 1 answer |
| Play in jazz style. | 1 answer |
| Put the accent on the weak beat | 1 answer |
| MAKE lean | 38 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
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SYNCOPATE (3)
Nevertheless, the world of art is a region especially fitted for _einfuehlung._ For there the need for quick action, which in life tends to syncopate emotion, does not exist.
Syncopate a square column, and leave an adhesive salve; syncopate the salve, and leave a person found in a bindery; syncopate again, and leave a prayer.
Significant is it that, as the writer in the Times remarks, "In American slang to 'rag' a melody is to syncopate a normally regular time." The "rag" idiom can thus be put on and off like a mask; and in recent years we have seen thus grotesquely disguised, as the Mendelssohn Wedding March, for instance, in "No Wedding Bells for Me," many familiar melodies.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1953–2015).