The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word END , but the solution may also be DETER which is one of the most recent solution (2019 in USA Today).
Nip in the bud crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| END | 42 % | 3 |
| AVERT | 16 % | 5 |
| ABORT | 11 % | 5 |
| PREVENT | 11 % | 7 |
| DETER | 5 % | 5 |
| STOP | 5 % | 4 |
| CEASE | 5 % | 5 |
| ARREST | 5 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Nip in the bud
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- disbud
- pinch
- bud out
- bud off
- thin
- leaf out
- strig
- go to seed
- apple
- burst into flower
- deadhead
- desucker
Crossword Answer definitions
END noun- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- (by extension) Death.
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- Result.
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
- One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- (in the plural) Money.
- To come to an end
- To finish, terminate.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result END
- Break off
- Curling division
- Deep or dead follower
- Finale
- Finis
- Finish
- He may be offensive
- Last gasp
- Sign off
- Wind up
More clues leading to the result AVERT
More clues leading to the result ABORT
- Cut short
- Scrub a mission
- End
- Terminate prematurely
- Word shouted when trying to end a mission
- Mission-stopping command
- End early
- Cancel, at NASA
- Cancel a launch
- Cancel, as a mission
More clues leading to the result PREVENT
More clues leading to the result DETER
More clues leading to the result STOP
- "__ the music!"
- Depot
- Halt
- Octagon message
- Organ piece
- Railroad-crossing word
- Scrub a mission
- Cease movement
- Discontinue
- Glottal __