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Letters: f  d  e  i  n  t  v

• Total Answers: 39
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

DE

1. DE6 — to drive danger or attack away from; to continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objections synonyms—bulwark, cover, fence, fend, forfend
2. DE8 — as in secure, secured synonyms—guarded, protected, safeguarded, secure, secured sounds like—offended
3. DE6 — to go against the commands, prohibitions, or rules of; to invite (someone) to take part in a contest or to perform a feat; to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage synonyms—disobeyed, mocked, rebelled (against), challenged, dared sounds like—abide, allied, aside, bugeyed, collide
4. DE6 — to draw or make apparent the outline of; to mark the limits of; to point out the chief quality or qualities of an individual or group synonyms—delineate, outline, silhouette, sketch, trace sounds like—divine
5. DE7 — having distinct or certain limits synonyms—bounded, circumscribed, definite, determinate, finite
6. DE8 — having distinct or certain limits; so clearly expressed as to leave no doubt about the meaning; having no exceptions or restrictions synonyms—bounded, circumscribed, defined, determinate, finite
7. DE10 — being the most accurate and apparently thorough; serving to put an end to all debate or questioning; so clearly expressed as to leave no doubt about the meaning synonyms—authoritative, classic, classical, magisterial, absolute
8. DE4 — accomplished with trained ability; skillful with the hands synonyms—adroit, artful, bravura, delicate, dexterous sounds like—daft, heft, left, theft
9. DE7 — to love or admire too much; to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power; to assign a high status or value to synonyms—adored, adulated, canonized, doted (on), hero-worshipped sounds like—divide, dried, refile

DI

10. DI9 — not comfortable around people synonyms—backward, bashful, coy, demure, introverted sounds like—decadent, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient

ED

11. ED7 — to provide (someone) with moral or spiritual understanding synonyms—educated, enlightened, illumed, illuminated, illumined sounds like—modified, rarefied, terrified, verified

EF

12. EF6 — having lost forcefulness, courage, or spirit; lacking bodily strength; lacking strength of will or character synonyms—decadent, decayed, degenerate, overripe, washed-up sounds like—feat

FE

13. FE4 — to provide food or meals for; to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption; to take a meal synonyms—board, cater, provision, victual, deliver sounds like—bead, cede, deed, fad, fade
14. FE4 — the lowest part, place, or point synonyms—basements, bases, bottoms, nadirs, rock bottoms sounds like—beat, beet, cheat, eat, effete
15. FE5 — a quick movement that you make to trick an opponent synonyms—bluff, end run, artifice, device, dodge sounds like—fainter, fate, font, paint, saint
16. FE7 — as in bluffed synonyms—bluffed, camouflaged, concealed, disguised, masked sounds like—final, find, fitted, founded, fountain
17. FE4 — to drive danger or attack away from synonyms—bulwark, cover, de, fence, for sounds like—bend, end, fiend, find, fond
18. FE6 — to drive danger or attack away from synonyms—bulwarked, covered, de**, fenced, for** sounds like—ended, founded, funded, of**, tended
19. FE4 — a social gathering; a time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something synonyms—affair, bash, binge, blast, blowout sounds like—ate, bait, date, eight, face
20. FE5 — to show appreciation, respect, or affection for (someone) with a public celebration synonyms—honored, recognized sounds like—faded, fatal, fitted, rated
21. FE5 — having an unpleasant smell synonyms—foul, frowsty, frowsy, funky, fusty sounds like—fitted

FI

22. FI4 — a region of activity, knowledge, or influence synonyms—area, arena, bailiwick, barony, business sounds like—beef, chief, feat, fee, feed
23. FI5 — a mean, evil, or unprincipled person; a person who regularly uses drugs especially illegally; a person with a strong and habitual liking for something synonyms—baddie, beast, brute, caitiff, devil sounds like—feed, feigned, fend, fond, found
24. FI4 — a rail about the mast near the deck to which rigging is belayed sounds like—knife, life, rife, wife
25. FI5 — sounds like—gift, lift, miffed, rift, shift
26. FI7 — a number that is one more than fourteen; the first point scored by a side in a game of tennis —called also five
27. FI4 — to come upon after searching, study, or effort; to come upon unexpectedly or by chance synonyms—ascertain, descry, detect, determine, dig out sounds like—bind, feigned, fend, fond, found
28. FI4 — consisting of very small particles; made or done with extreme care and accuracy; being of less than usual width synonyms—dusty, floury, powdery, delicate, exact sounds like—dine, fan, fawn, feign, fern
29. FI5 — to establish or apply as a charge or penalty synonyms—assessed, charged, exacted, imposed, laid sounds like—bind, feigned, fend, fond, found
30. FI6 — having a limit; having distinct or certain limits synonyms—limited, bounded, circumscribed, defined, de** sounds like—eyesight, faint, feint, fenced
31. FI6 — to equip with fins; to show the fins above the water; to move through water propelled by fins sounds like—feared, feigned, fend, fond, found
32. FI6 — meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation synonyms—applicable, appropriate, apt, becoming, befitting sounds like—fetid, knitted
33. FI4 — as in one, ten synonyms—C-note, fifty, fin, **r, hundred sounds like—arrive, chive, dive, hive, jive

ID

34. ID10 — as in discovered, detected synonyms—detected, discovered, bustling, busy, crowded

IN

35. IN10 — being or seeming to be without limits; not expressed in precise terms; not seen or understood clearly synonyms—bottomless, boundless, endless, fathomless, horizonless sounds like—definite
36. IN8 — being or seeming to be without limits synonyms—bottomless, boundless, endless, fathomless, horizonless
37. IN10 — a verb form normally identical in English with the first person singular that performs some functions of a noun and at the same time displays some characteristics of a verb and that is used with to (as in "I asked him to go") except with auxiliary and various other verbs (as in "no one saw him leave")

TI

38. TI4 — an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions synonyms—altercation, argle-bargle, argument, argy-bargy, battle royal sounds like—riff, s**, tough, turf, whiff

VI

39. VI8 — to give life, vigor, or spirit to synonyms—amped (up), animated, braced, energized, enlivened