Clues for the word "DERIVE"
We've had 34 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 60 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on July 12, 2025.
Definition of derive
- v. t. - To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into, on, upon.
- v. t. - To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from.
- v. t. - To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon.
- v. t. - To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon.
- v. i. - To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced.
Referring Clues
- Glean
- Reason out
- Infer
- Infer (from)
- Establish by deduction
- Originate
- Originate (from)
- Figure out
- Stem (from)
- Obtain
- Reason by deduction
- Obtain (from)
- Draw (from)
- Determine by reasoning
- Extract
- Figure out by deduction
- Determine
- Come from journey touring the East
- Gain initiative, when storing energy
- Infer motivation requires the taking of ecstasy
- Trace source of echo in Verdi orchestration
- Trace
- Gather I have to support a revolutionary uprising
- Get from a source
- Come (from)
- Educe
- Reach by reasoning
- Evolve
- Obtain, only to thrust out of the way!
- Reach through reasoning
- Get
- Get by reasoning
- Obtain through logic
- Conclude through logic
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - July 12, 2025
- Mirror Mini - May 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 26, 2025
- USA Today - February 02, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 14, 2025
- New York Times - October 23, 2024
- USA Today - March 22, 2024
- USA Today - February 22, 2024
- New York Times - October 15, 2023
- New York Times - June 02, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - May 03, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - April 14, 2023
- New York Times - March 06, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 08, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 06, 2017
- Universal - May 23, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - May 03, 2017
- Mirror Mini - May 01, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - March 24, 2017
- Universal - February 19, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 20, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 13, 2016
- LA Times - August 14, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 24, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - June 01, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - March 04, 2016
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - May 24, 2015
- Washington Post - February 09, 2015
- New York Times - June 22, 2014
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 07, 2013
- And in 30 more crossword puzzles...