Cryptic crossword clue
10, or part of 24 down 6

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SPRING

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The straight part

We know that "10" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case 10 = spring.

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What does SPRING mean?

1. To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation

1. An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
2. The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life, variously reckoned as
3. The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
4. Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
5. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
6. An erection of the penis.
7. A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or a plank or seam.
8. Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
9. The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
10. Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly

1. To burst forth.
2. (of beards) To grow.
3. To cause to burst forth.
4. To make wet, to moisten.
5. (usually with "to" or "up") To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
6. (now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
7. To go off.
8. To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
9. (usually perfective) To crack.
10. To have something crack.
11. To cause to crack.
12. To surprise by sudden or deft action.
13. (of arches) To build, to form the initial curve of.
14. (of arches, with "from") To extend, to curve.
15. To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
16. To raise a vessel's sheer.
17. (cobblery) To raise a last's toe.
18. To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
19. To raise an offered price.
20. To act as a spring: to strongly rebound.
21. To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
22. To provide spring or elasticity
23. To inspire, to motivate.
24. To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
25. (now rare) To reach maturity, to be fully grown.
26. (chiefly of cows) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
27. (of rattles) To sound, to play.
28. To spend the springtime somewhere

1. To hold tightly, to clasp.
2. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
3. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
4. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
5. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
6. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
7. To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
8. To percolate; to be filtered.
9. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
10. To urge with importunity; to press.
11. Hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.

1. To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.

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