Crossword-Solution: VARICOSE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Varicose | a. | Irregularly swollen or enlarged; affected with, or containing, varices, or varicosities; of or pertaining to varices, or varicosities; as, a varicose nerve fiber; a varicose vein; varicose ulcers. |
| Varicose | a. | Intended for the treatment of varicose veins; -- said of elastic stockings, bandages. and the like. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “VARICOSE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Abnormally dilated | 1 answer |
| Like swollen veins | 1 answer |
| Swollen, as veins | 1 answer |
| COMBINING FORMS SWOLLEN | 10 answers |
| swollen | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VARICOSE (5)
The husband had suffered with a varicose vein for seven years, but had waited until his wife had one too, so that they might go and hunt up a physician together, guided by the postman when he should come with the newspaper.
When the woman was not pregnant they were still less voluminous and seemed to consist of an immense mass of wrinkled, flaccid skin, traversed by enormous dilated and varicose blood-vessels, the mammary glands themselves being almost entirely absent.
Varicose veins sometimes become so enlarged and distorted as to simulate the appearance of one varicose tumor.
Often a cross-hatched marking is put over goiter, varicose veins, and other permanent swellings or enlargements.
Varicose veins are enlarged veins which are apt to burst under the stress of long continued exertion.
Quotes with VARICOSE (3)
When she thinks of the toxins built up inside of her from so many years of eating carelessly, of the resentment that has grown steadily over fifteen years of marriage, of the stretch marks and the varicose veins that came from two pregnancies, only one of them fulfilled, she thinks the inside of her body must tell a story like a tree. Were she to break open a bone, perhaps it would look like the inside of a coffee mug - riddled with lines, stained with brown blotches.
I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.
If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2002–2012).