Crossword-Solution: WORSTED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Worsted | imp. & p. p. | of Worst |
| Worsted | n. | Well-twisted yarn spun of long-staple wool which has been combed to lay the fibers parallel, used for carpets, cloth, hosiery, gloves, and the like. |
| Worsted | n. | Fine and soft woolen yarn, untwisted or lightly twisted, used in knitting and embroidery. |
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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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eruption
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Sentences with WORSTED (5)
Don’t any of you know his name?” “Never heard the man’s name in my life, or seed his form afore.” The fire began to get worsted, and Gabriel’s elevated position being no longer required of him, he made as if to descend.
They consisted of two shirts and a half; two stocks for the neck; a pair or two of worsted stockings; an old pair of corduroy small-clothes; a rusty razor; a book of psalm tunes full of dog’s-ears; and a broken pitch-pipe.
The retribution that followed every vengeful success was so sweeping and majestic that the boys always retired from the field badly worsted.
Trina's ancestors on both sides were German-Swiss, and some long-forgotten forefather of the sixteenth century, some worsted-leggined wood-carver of the Tyrol, had handed down the talent of the national industry, to reappear in this strangely distorted guise.
Then, too, I one day got into the wars with Uncle Able’s son, “Ike,” and had got sadly worsted; in fact, the little rascal had struck me directly in the forehead with a sharp piece of cinder, fused with iron, from the old blacksmith’s forge, which made a cross in my forehead very plainly to be seen now.
Quotes with WORSTED (3)
What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the world's eyes until the very last moment a state of inner disintegration and biological decay; sallow ugliness, sensuously marred and worsted, which nevertheless is able to fan its smouldering concupiscence to a pallid impotence, which from the glowing depths of the spirit draws strength to cast down a whole proud people at the foot of the Cross and set…
Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.
They outnumbered me, and I was worsted and under their feet; but, as yet, I was not dead.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1950–2023).