The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ECLIPSES which also is the latest solution we found used in Washington Post in 2010.
They occur during syzygies crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ECLIPSES | 100 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: They occur during syzygies
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- prescient
- synchronize
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- appear
- pension
- synchronized
- synchronizing
- airbag
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- equinox
- attend
- attended
Crossword Answer definitions
ECLIPSES noun- An alignment of astronomical objects whereby one object comes between the observer (or notional observer) and another object, thus obscuring the latter.
- Especially, an alignment whereby a planetary object (for example, the Moon) comes between the Sun and another planetary object (for example, the Earth), resulting in a shadow being cast by the middle planetary object onto the other planetary object.
- A seasonal state of plumage in some birds, notably ducks, adopted temporarily after the breeding season and characterised by a dull and scruffy appearance.
- Obscurity, decline, downfall
- Of astronomical bodies, to cause an eclipse.
- To overshadow; to be better or more noticeable than.
- (Irish grammar) To undergo eclipsis.
- An omission of words needed to fully express the sense of a phrase
- A line or dash used to show that text has been omitted
- (Irish grammar) A mutation of the initial sound of a word by which voiceless sounds become voiced, voiced stops become nasal consonants, and vowels acquire a prothetic nasal consonant: see Appendix:Irish mutations#Eclipsis.
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