Definitions for crucible

crucible cru·ci·ble

Spelling: [kroo-suh-buh l]
IPA: /ˈkru sə bəl/

Crucible is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 175 anagrams from letters in crucible (bcceilru).

Definitions for crucible

noun

  1. a container of metal or refractory material employed for heating substances to high temperatures.
  2. Metallurgy. a hollow area at the bottom of a furnace in which the metal collects.
  3. a severe, searching test or trial.

Origin of crucible

1400-50; late Middle English crusible, corusible Medieval Latin crucibulum; compare Anglo-French crusil, Old French croi-suel, croisol night lamp, crucible Gallo-Romance *croceolus (of uncert

Examples for crucible

When fusion is complete, the contents of the crucible are poured into any suitable mould.

But it is also, anachronistically, a crucible that can reveal character.

But the crucible was no longer—as then of pity; it was the crucible of love.

And what does it say if we look to war as a crucible for religious belief?

Thus I was placed in the crucible for further refinement and regeneration.

The fusion is conducted in a Fletcher's crucible furnace in a clay crucible.

If the witness did in fact witness such a terrible crime, the testimony will survive in the crucible of cross-examination.

Herzog was never just a novel; from the beginning it was a symbol, a crucible, a shibboleth.

Nature put into the crucible of a loving heart becomes poetry.

Born in 1961, Barack Obama is our first president since JFK whose worldview was shaped in a non-Cold War crucible.

Word Value for crucible
Scrable

14

Words with friends

19

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