Clues for the word "OPERATE"
We've had 65 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 182 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on January 12, 2026.
Definition of operate
- v. i. - To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.
- v. i. - To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.
- v. i. - To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
- v. i. - To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.
- v. i. - To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
- v. t. - To produce, as an effect; to cause.
- v. t. - To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.
Referring Clues
- Surgeon's decision
- Go in, so to speak
- Work on an organ, maybe
- Run
- Work on an open-and-shut case?
- Be in charge of
- Do surgery (on)
- Do surgery
- Manipulate
- Run, as heavy machinery
- Perform surgery
- Emulate Christiaan Barnard
- Manage
- Make the cut?
- Do business
- Function
- Be a cutup?
- Be at the controls
- Run, as a business
- Work
- Do a tracheotomy, perhaps
- Make go
- Do a surgeon's job
- Object of a computer instruction
- Do a hip job, say?
- Function, like a machine
- Control, as a machine
- Urn
- Be a surgeon
- What surgeons do
- Run, as equipment
- Work a piece of machinery
- Perform works by Lawrence
- Cockney optimist had to work
- Manage lecture about gymnastics
- Work ... work ... time ... time ... echo!
- Make to work
- Work - perform surgery
- Musical drama by Lawrence found to be effective
- Queen replaces one in drug work
- Carry on in the theatre
- Work by poet about particular period
- Take out appendix or gall bladder
- Cut and run
- Hope without aspiration to be worthy of work
- Perform musical drama at the beginning and end
- Give a speech about peripheral characters in Poe's work
- Choose to limit time with sweetheart in work
- Musical entertainment: Laurence to conduct
- Use to perform surgery
- Work in musical drama, note
- Do a nose job, say
- Run machinery
- One replaced by queen in drug work
- Do an inside job?
- Sextet are portrayed coming back to accept work
- Run, as a machine
- Perform surgery (on)
- Work the controls
- Ring through at a quarter past from work
- Use a scalpel, say
- Be in control of, like machinery
- Control, like a machine
- Conduct
- Use, as machinery
Last Seen In
- New York Times - January 12, 2026
- Mirror Mini - December 04, 2025
- Daily American - November 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 24, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 27, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 12, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 08, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 05, 2025
- Daily American - April 28, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 13, 2025
- Daily American - December 15, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 26, 2024
- LA Times - November 06, 2024
- New York Times - October 16, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 25, 2024
- Daily American - August 31, 2024
- Daily American - July 25, 2024
- Mirror Daily - June 12, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 11, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 08, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - June 07, 2024
- Your Life Choices - May 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 12, 2024
- Mirror Mini - March 05, 2024
- Daily American - March 05, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - February 09, 2024
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