Crossword-Solution: UNDERWROTE 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Underwrote imp. of Underwrite

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Agreed to meet the expense of. 1 answer
Assumed financial responsibility for 1 answer
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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.
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eruption
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Sentences with UNDERWROTE (5)

The land grants pledged to pay the bonds were at first of small value, and their advance in price depended on the success of the canal itself, which could not be built--unless the State underwrote the whole enterprise--if the lands were not worth the bonds.
The Paths of Inland Commerce Archer B. Hulbert 2009
The question assumed the angriest aspect; and, lastly, the Prussian-French war underwrote the negotiations with a finis pro temp.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard F. Burton 2004
George--for the rate at which ships is underwrote this war-time is so scandalous that I often prefer to venture than to insure--that I confess I didn't listen much to the play, sir, and only went to please this little Lyddy.” “And you did please me, dearest Gappy!” cries the young lady.
The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 2005
Hannah underwrote him for a handsome sum, received his heavy compliments with a deft detachment, heard his complaints about his extravagant wife with a sympathetic expression, but no comment--and that night spent the ten minutes before she dropped off to sleep in pondering the impenetrable mysteries of the institution called marriage.
Gigolo Edna Ferber 2007
But I could wish with all my heart, though, that they may be done by a better hand than the bungling fellow that drew these." "Thou art in the right, Sancho; for the fellow that drew these puts me in mind of Orbaneja, the painter of Uveda, who, as he sat at work, being asked what he was about, made answer, any thing that comes uppermost; and if he chanced to draw a cock, he underwrote, This is a cock, lest the people should take it for a fox.
The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 2011

Quotes with UNDERWROTE (3)

That frontier operated as a rough and ready homeostatic device; the more a state pressed its subjects, the fewer subjects it had. The frontier underwrote popular freedom.
James C. Scott
To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.
Scott Stossel
Even before the expansion of slave labor in the South and into the West, slavery was already an important source of northern profit, as was the already exploding slave trade in the Caribbean and South America. Banks capitalized the slave trade, and insurance companies underwrote it.
Greg Grandin
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Appears in: NYT, WSJ.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (1952–2021).