Clues for the word "RAISE"
We've had 285 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 830 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on November 26, 2025.
Definition of raise
- v. t. - To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
- v. t. - To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like.
- v. t. - To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace.
- v. t. - To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.
- v. t. - To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff.
- v. t. - To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.
- v. t. - To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite.
- v. t. - To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to.
- v. t. - To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like.
- v. t. - To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones.
- v. t. - To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like.
- v. t. - To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle.
- v. t. - To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up.
- v. t. - To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.
- v. t. - To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.
- v. t. - To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection.
- v. t. - To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread.
- v. t. - To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.
- v. t. - To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets.
- v. t. - To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it.
Referring Clues
- Up, as the ante
- Erect
- Pay boost
- More chips for the pot
- Union demand
- Wage news
- Reason for celebration
- More than see
- Worker's demand
- Grow, in a way
- Bring up
- Put up or tear down, they say (5)
- Rear
- Scrape together
- Poker ploy
- Put up
- Up
- Employee's reward
- Up the ante
- Employee's request
- Buoy
- Not just see
- Add to the pot
- Collect, as funds
- Reward from a boss
- $10 to $12 an hour, e.g.
- Jack up
- Striker's demand
- Call alternative
- Don't fold or call
- Bluffer's ploy, maybe
- Subject of union negotiations
- Summon up
- Employee's desire
- Suggest
- Cultivate
- Reward for a job well done
- Salary increase
- Strikers' demand
- Put up, as a barn
- Sweeten the pot
- Hell or Cain preceder
- Heighten
- Poker action
- Pay hike
- Show confidence at the poker table
- Hike
- Pay envelope fattener
- Paycheck booster
- What strikers usually want
- Elevate
- Pay increase
- Reward for a good performance review
- Good worker's reward
- Promotion reward, usually
- Grow, as crops
- Bettor's bet
- Grow a crop of
- Lift
- Up the stakes, in a way
- Grow
- Bluffer's ploy
- Up the bet
- Collective bargaining result, perhaps
- Jack
- Go all-in, maybe
- Reach via radio
- Aggressive poker bet
- Worker's reward
- Collect for a cause
- Workplace incentive
- One usually comes with a promotion
- Paycheck upgrade
- Collect, as cash
- Uplift
- Employee's goal
- Poker term
- Worker's request
- Poker move
- Push up
- What to do with a full house
- Bring to a new level
- Come up with, as money
- Do more than see
- Poker-player's ploy
- What to do when you have a full house
- Corporate kudo
- Poker player's ploy
- Result of a union success
- Reason for celebration on the job
- Pot fattener
- Job review subject
- Feed the kitty?
- "___ The Titanic" (1980)
- Worker's wish
- Texas Hold 'Em declaration
- Common play with a great hand
- Do a parental job
- You may do this with a full house
- Poker players' ploy
- Texas Hold 'Em ploy
- Proper play with a great hand
- Go beyond seeing
- Poker player's option
- Employee request
- Diligent worker's reward
- Hoist
- See, and then some
- It often comes with a promotion
- Cause for celebration on the job
- Increase, as a bet
- Lift up
- Introduce, as an issue
- Employee hope
- Breadwinner's good news
- Poker word
- See plus?
- Bit of corporate encouragement
- Reward of a kind
- Corporate reward
- Worker's delight
- Poker-player's move
- Good news for a worker
- Annual award?
- Salary hike
- Diligent worker's goal
- Job reward
- Paycheck increase
- Paycheck boost
- Boost up
- Increase
- Bring to a new level?
- Recover, as a sunken ship
- Salary bump
- Increase, as the size of a bet
- Pay bump
- Increase a bet
- Pleasant paycheck surprise
- Strikers' demand, sometimes
- Set upright
- Texas hold'em action
- Exalt
- Take to the next level
- Come over the top, in poker
- Best bets?
- Wage increase
- Move up
- Bridge play
- Collect
- Indicate a good hand, in a way
- Good news at the office
- Be bold in poker
- Better a bet
- Bring in, as political contributions
- Post-review reward
- Poker strategy
- Buoy up
- It sweetens the pot
- Underpaid employee's demand
- Union goal
- Every employee wants one
- Bring up, as kids
- Present, as an issue
- Good news from upstairs?
- Cause of employee elation
- Inflate
- Boost
- Up the pot
- Employee's hope
- What strikers want
- Merit reward
- Move higher
- Accompanier of a promotion, usually
- Result of a year-end review, maybe
- Heave up
- Part of a poker bluff
- Scrape together, as funds
- It might be a bluff
- Hike up
- Bump, in poker
- Opposite of lower
- Grow pot?
- Request to the boss
- Put up beams in the auditorium
- Lift beams, so to speak
- Salary boost
- Nurture
- It may come with a promotion
- What prodigy will do to bar
- Aries (anag)
- So-called level increase
- Broach the subject again as I wander in
- Intensify approval initially lacking
- It's an elevating thing to do
- A rise, perhaps, for an American
- Give a lift
- A change of air, by the way, can be uplifting
- Erect or flatten, reportedly
- Give one's children a lift?
- Jack is the one with funny ears, on the outside
- In America, it makes labour more costly
- Put up or knock down, might you say?
- Gather together for the hike
- Speak highly of no power boost
- Lift - increase
- Make contact by radio
- Recommend removing front of hoist
- Indication of a strong hand, perhaps
- Build beams noisily
- Stud declaration
- "Lift the beams", we're told
- Demolish, they say, or the reverse
- Put up and soundly knock down
- Get up in a lift
- Breed little sunbeams, as they say
- Get money for lift
- Rebel without a cause
- Promotion result
- Result of a good job review, often
- Start of a Salinger title
- Cultivate or levitate
- Hike, as tuition
- Hard worker's desire
- Bring up (children)
- Hoist (flag)
- Care for during childhood
- Praise not started, so collect is read
- Ray's said to be getting an increase in pay
- Pull up fish, we're told
- Breed of artist is English
- Bring up perfect son in dire semi
- Cultivate by growing
- Inflate article during climb
- Put up beams, noisily
- Fish reportedly in rear
- Breed fish, reportedly
- ... put up - extra is excusable, partly
- Parent
- Hard worker's due
- Aggressive bet
- Diligent worker's hope
- Labor union demand
- Put up beams, by the sound of it
- Bump, in poker-speak
- It's often merit-based
- Poker bump
- Make to arise?
- Cause to rise
- Are massing round one's rear
- Better a poker bet
- Bumped bet
- Salary booster
- To lift by the ears is maybe out of line
- Bump up in pay
- Bold move in poker
- Promotion accompanier
- Diligent worker's due
- Pot booster
- Provide parenting for
- Result of union negotiations, often
- Jack will be a breeder
- Underpaid employee's desire
- Increase, as the stakes
- Be uppish at poker?
- Bring up the question of a pay increase
- Good news from one's employer
- It means costlier labour in the U.S.
- Possible result of unionizing
- Subject of an end-of-year office memo, maybe
- Uptick in salary
- Poker option
- ___ the roof
- Poker ruse
- Possible result of union negotiations
- Scary thing to ask for, maybe
- Give one's children a lift?
- Ideal result of union negotiations
- Bet more than
- Add more to the active bet
- Put in more chips, say
- "All in favor, ___ your hand"
- Opposite of raze, funnily enough
- You might ask for one at an annual review
- Poker bid
- Confident poker action
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - November 26, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 05, 2025
- LA Times - October 26, 2025
- Mirror Mini - October 22, 2025
- Daily American - October 17, 2025
- New York Times - October 09, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 29, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 11, 2025
- LA Times - August 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 18, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 16, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 13, 2025
- LA Times - July 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 19, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 15, 2025
- LA Times - May 28, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 27, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 27, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 15, 2025
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