Crossword-Solution: OPERATE 7 letters, 126 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Operate v. i. To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh,
physical or mechanical; to act.
Operate 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.
Operate v. i. To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral
power or influence.
Operate 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.
Operate v. i. To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to
speculative profits.
Operate v. t. To produce, as an effect; to cause.
Operate v. t. To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity;
to work; as, to operate a machine.

We have 126 clues for the answer “OPERATE”

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Act the cutup? 1 answer
Be a cutup? 1 answer
Be a surgeon 1 answer
Be at the controls 1 answer
Be in control of, like machinery 1 answer
Control, as a machine 1 answer
Control, like a machine 1 answer
Cut to the bone, say 1 answer
Do a hip job, say? 1 answer
Do a nose job, say 1 answer
Do a tracheotomy, perhaps 1 answer
Do an inside job? 1 answer
Do surgery 1 answer
Do surgery (on) 1 answer
Do what a surgeon does 1 answer
Drive or work 1 answer
Employ a trocar 1 answer
Emulate Christiaan Barnard 1 answer
Emulate a b.t.o. 1 answer
Emulate the Mayos 1 answer
Fix an organ, maybe 1 answer
Function, like a machine 1 answer
Get under someone's skin, perhaps? 1 answer
Get under someone's skin? 1 answer
Give an organ a tune-up, maybe? 1 answer
Go in, so to speak 1 answer
Handle, as machinery 1 answer
Keep running 1 answer
Make it go 1 answer
Make run 1 answer
Make to work 1 answer
Manage a machine. 1 answer
Manage or run 1 answer
Manage or use. 1 answer
Manage; conduct. 1 answer
Musical drama extremely tiresome work 1 answer
Perform surgery 1 answer
Perform surgery, perhaps 1 answer
Repair an organ, perhaps 1 answer
Run or work 1 answer
Run, as Machinery Big name in farm 1 answer
Run, as a business 1 answer
Run, as a car 1 answer
Run, as a machine 1 answer
Run, as an elevator. 1 answer
Run, as heavy machinery 1 answer
Run, as machinery 1 answer
Surgeon's decision 1 answer
Transact business. 1 answer
Use a laparoscope, maybe 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with OPERATE (5)

The artifice showed that the woman, by some mysterious intuition, had grasped the paradoxical truth that blindness may operate more vigorously than prescience, and the short-sighted effect more than the far-seeing; that limitation, and not comprehensiveness, is needed for striking a blow.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Other hackers, however, thought having that many bucky bits was overkill, and objected that such a keyboard can require three or four hands to operate.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Additional capabilities, including telnet and ftp, cost more, and it will cost $2,000 or more per year if you want to operate your own host system.
Surfing the Internet Jean Armour Polly 1993
Because of the variety of formats and types of texts, to capitalize the equipment and have the talents and skills to operate them at LC would be extremely expensive.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
Staff may not have had time to learn to operate them, and the computers may literally be collecting dust.
NREN for All: Insurmountable Opportunity Jean Armour Polly 1993

Quotes with OPERATE (3)

I think this’ll definitely tide me over while we’re apart,” Bones laughed, dragging me into his arms with far more strength and quickness than was fair, considering I still had trouble making my limbs operate.“Oh, Kitten,” he murmured as his lips dragged down my throat. “You didn’t really think we were done, did you?
Jeaniene Frost This Side of the Grave
It’s when your plans look dead that God’s resurrection power begins to operate in your life in greater measure
Patience Johnson Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Where is my oasis? Too far fromhere for me to crawl with thesedead legs, refusing to co-operate Hands and fingers clawing uselesslythrough the grains of sand...
Kiera Woodhull Chaos of the Mind
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 187 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).