Word "OPERATE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
handle and cause to function
Synonyms:
control
Examples:
do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
perform as expected when applied
Synonyms:
function, go, run, work

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
perform surgery on
Synonyms:
operate on
Examples:
The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life

Crossword Clues for OPERATE

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Clue Source Date
Almost unrestricted speed in run (7) The Sun Two Speed 27 Aug 2025
Perform surgery (7) Puzzler 23 Aug 2025
Run over and gabble about latest bit of nonsense The Telegraph Cryptic 12 Aug 2025
Perform surgery Wall Street Journal 11 Aug 2025
Roundabout a mile away from friend's work The Telegraph Toughie 07 Aug 2025
After reflection, get a repository to store work The Times Cryptic 05 Aug 2025
Work in the theatre? (7) Puzzler Cryptic 22 Jul 2025
Function (7) Mirror Classic 15 Jul 2025
Work with case in theatre The Times Quick Cryptic 11 Jul 2025
Run machinery
Forced a peer to work (7)
Control the functioning of (7)
Do surgical procedure (7)
Perhaps Norma had some food - a common function
Run old repeat that's slammed The Sun Two Speed 26 May 2025
Perform surgery The Sun Two Speed 26 May 2025
Use a rope unexpectedly by sides of trapeze (7)
Use functionally (7)
Cause to work in theatre (7)
Do surgery on ear poet has torn (7)
Work as a surgeon (7)
Exercise with speed after the start of opening run
Direct or control (7)
Control poet era interpretation (7)
Work in a theatre? The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 29 Mar 2025
Surgeon will work with tape or start to explore possibly (7)
Utilise (equipment) (7)
Run a€“ function (7)
Run - function (7) The Guardian Quick 21 Mar 2025
Function Mirror Classic 15 Mar 2025
Run musical production on fringes of theatre (7)
Run opera with only half the team (7)
Manage within budget - a repossession's coming around The Telegraph Cryptic 28 Feb 2025
Function The Sun Two Speed 23 Feb 2025
Terrible repeat follows old work The Sun Two Speed 23 Feb 2025
Run, as a machine Universal 20 Feb 2025
Control confusing to a peer (7)
Control working of (7)
Do some cutting in the theatre (7)
Drug making one queen perform in theatre
In this era, a poet has to work in the theatre
In this era, a poet may work in a theatre
Function Mirror Classic 06 Dec 2024
Use Family Time 25 Nov 2024
Meet a reporter to describe upcoming work in theatre
Perform surgical act (7)
Work a machine, as would chirurgeon (7)
Manage LA Times Daily 06 Nov 2024
Work on a musical drama about ET (7)
Do business Newsday 03 Nov 2024
A variation on Poe writings? A tear will be shed when they do that in the theatre (7)
Work a machine
Function as a surgeon does? The Times Quick Cryptic 22 Oct 2024
Perform surgery on (7)
Do surgery to a peer perhaps (7)
Run New York Times 16 Oct 2024
TAPE O'ER
Perform Carmen perhaps, taking encores at first (7)
Make function (7) Puzzler 07 Oct 2024
Perform surgery: - on the patient
Work in a theatre and musical production with tips on taste (7)
It's the era of the poet in the theatre
Function well The Sun Mini 28 Sep 2024
Use, the machine
Run to a peer in trouble (7) Puzzler Cryptic 11 Sep 2024
Run a machine (7)
Ring through at one point for work (7)
Work from musical drama extremely tiresome The Times Sunday Cryptic 25 Aug 2024
Perform surgery and make speech about up-coming record (7)
Perform surgery on toe, reap disaster (7) Puzzler Cryptic 18 Aug 2024
Function in the theatre? (7)
Perform in the Theatre Of Blood (7)
Make the cut? Wall Street Journal 10 Jul 2024
Handle and cause to function
Aida perhaps at sea, regularly leaving work The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Jul 2024
Run, control (7)
Handle machinery
Direct or control a machine (7)
Make a theatrical cut (7)
Hold forth about poet's regularly dismissed work
Use of a dramatic musical note
Cast a peer to perform in theatre?
Run Thomas Joseph 11 Jun 2024
One replaced by queen in drug work
Take out appendix or gall bladder
Manage ball games with pace The Telegraph Cryptic 05 Jun 2024
Perform major work in the theatre? (7)
Put tea into a pore and this is what the surgeon must do
Perform surgery Mirror Classic 01 Jun 2024
To a peer, perhaps, it means work (7)
If you eat rope like that then this is what they'll do to you
Practise surgery (7)
Make a speech about record's return and do surgery (7)
Perform surgery The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 19 May 2024
Run musical drama, extremely tiresome The Sun Two Speed 07 May 2024
Function The Sun Two Speed 07 May 2024
Repeat nothing or I use the knife!
To a peer, might seem odd to put into action (7)
Manage to keep half of Europe separate
Carry out surgery
Work with somebody on the table (7)
Hold forth about exercise function The Times Quick Cryptic 16 Apr 2024
Musical drama staged before the Maori function (7)
Function The Sun Two Speed 13 Apr 2024
Musical drama extremely tiresome work The Sun Two Speed 13 Apr 2024
Teen oddly following Aida? Run! (7)
Do remedial work in the theatre (7)
One does this in theatre at work time, time before excision primarily (7)
Do surgery Mirror Classic 18 Mar 2024
Poetically open and tear about, as will surgeon (7)
Carry on business - with a knife?
Make cuts in the theatre? (7)
To be at the controls of a machine (7)
Work in theatre (7)
Do theatre work (7)
Control the functioning of (a machine) (7)
Run The Guardian Quick 14 Feb 2024
Work with a kind of musical note
Run Wall Street Journal 13 Jan 2024
Run to work
Work with time to note and act
Work in the theatre perhaps
Run, as machinery Newsday 22 Nov 2023
Oscar exercises with judge after work The Telegraph Cryptic 21 Nov 2023
Control, like a machine USA Today 08 Sep 2023
Run Thomas Joseph 05 Sep 2023
Function Premier Sunday 03 Sep 2023
Perform surgery, say
Not totally unrestricted speed in run The Telegraph Toughie 25 Jul 2023
Perform surgery The Telegraph Quick 12 Jun 2023
Run LA Times Daily 09 May 2023
Manage to perform surgery The Telegraph Cryptic 17 Apr 2023
Be in control of, like machinery USA Today 24 Feb 2023
Run Eugene Sheffer 18 Nov 2022
Drive, for example Newsday 05 Nov 2022
Get under someone’s skin? Wall Street Journal 29 Oct 2022
Function The Telegraph Quick 29 Jun 2022
Note Norma perhaps fronting work in 18
Note Norma perhaps fronting work in 18 The Guardian Cryptic 16 Jun 2022
Do surgery New York Times 13 Jun 2022
Do surgery The Telegraph Quick 06 May 2022
Perform surgery Irish Times Simplex 27 Apr 2022
Perform a surgery, say
Talk about exercise in run
Talk about exercise in run The Guardian Cryptic 15 Apr 2022
Work in empty theatre following musical drama The Guardian Quiptic 21 Mar 2022
Work in empty theatre following musical drama
Perform a surgery
Make run Newsday 23 Jan 2022
Work, function The Times Concise 28 Sep 2021
Manage to give a speech about gym session
Do what a surgeon does Wall Street Journal 23 Aug 2021
Work, or do a surgeon's work Universal 01 Aug 2021
Perform Cosi Fan Tutte, perhaps at half-term
Control over Queen wearing crown The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Mar 2021
Manage to perform surgery The Telegraph Cryptic 18 Jan 2021
Terrible repeat follows old work The Sun Two Speed 05 Jan 2021
Function The Sun Two Speed 05 Jan 2021
Use a scalpel, say Universal 20 Dec 2020
Work time? Almost put away handle
Run round gym with speed The Sun Two Speed 15 Nov 2020
Perform surgery Universal 31 Oct 2020
Almost unrestricted speed in run The Sun Two Speed 21 Oct 2020
Scala production extremely tiresome work The Sun Two Speed 11 Oct 2020
Repeat unfortunately follows old work The Sun Two Speed 13 Aug 2020
Function The Times Concise 04 Jul 2020
Manage LA Times Daily 17 Jun 2020
Manage The Washington Post 17 Jun 2020
Work New York Times 14 Jun 2020
Function as earl – nothing to boast about
What a doctor would do on someone who needs surgery
Run, as a machine Newsday 20 Apr 2020
Love goddess hosting a function
Run or work The Washington Post 15 Mar 2020
Run or work LA Times Daily 15 Mar 2020
Aida perhaps put on tie regularly for work
Aspiration to leave hospital and be worthy of work The Telegraph Cryptic 18 Feb 2020
Mostly unrestricted speed in run The Sun Two Speed 10 Feb 2020
Work leads to tedious extra work The Telegraph Toughie 26 Dec 2019
Perform surgery The Sun Two Speed 11 Nov 2019
Run Thomas Joseph 05 Sep 2019
Run, as a machine Universal 19 Aug 2019
Function The Telegraph Quick 18 Aug 2019
Some interloper at event or function Irish Times Crosaire 10 Aug 2019
Make a speech about exercise and work The Telegraph Cryptic 26 Jun 2019
Produce a change of heart, say? The Washington Post Sunday 02 Jun 2019
Work The Telegraph Quick 28 May 2019
. Missing primary drug recipe, had to run
Repeat performance follows old work The Sun Two Speed 15 Mar 2019
Perform surgery The Telegraph Quick 19 Feb 2019
Perform surgery Irish Times Simplex 19 Jan 2019
Perform surgery The Washington Post 02 Jan 2019
Perform surgery LA Times Daily 02 Jan 2019
Perform surgery
Run, as a machine
Run The Telegraph Quick 04 Dec 2018
Sextet are portrayed coming back to accept work
Musical drama extremely tiresome work The Sun Two Speed 13 Oct 2018
Run round gym at speed The Sun Two Speed 04 Sep 2018
Musical drama starts to translate Elgar work The Telegraph Toughie 04 Sep 2018
Eat rope (anag.) The Telegraph Quick 01 Sep 2018
Do an inside job? LA Times Daily 25 Aug 2018
Do an inside job? The Washington Post 25 Aug 2018
Oxygen exercises used on speed run
Manage to perform surgery
Run The Washington Post 04 Jul 2018
Run LA Times Daily 04 Jul 2018
Work over, repeat in error The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Jul 2018
Note that's played at end of musical show or function The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Jun 2018
Work as surgeon The Sun Two Speed 15 Apr 2018
Run Wall Street Journal 17 Mar 2018
Almost unrestricted speed in run
Some no-hoper at engineering work The Telegraph Toughie 06 Mar 2018
Do a nose job, say USA Today 24 Feb 2018
High-brow music, Ted? Cut and run!
Musical drama, the heartless work The Telegraph Cryptic 26 Jan 2018
Be a surgeon Universal 13 Jan 2018
Be a surgeon
Do a nose job, say
Do an inside job?
Run
Work and work with energy on speed
Work in secret a reporter sent back The Telegraph Cryptic 31 Oct 2017
Perform in the theatre? The Telegraph Cryptic 09 Oct 2017
Perhaps Carmen then regularly avoided work The Telegraph Cryptic 22 Aug 2017
Perform in theatre as Figaro, perhaps reaching lower note The Telegraph Toughie 30 May 2017
Work, run The Times Concise 15 Mar 2017
Ring a worried man
Work a piece of machinery Family Time 23 Jan 2017
Perform works by Lawrence
Run for a time with a couple of teachers after work
Urn New York Times 15 Sep 2016
Run, as equipment Family Time 21 Aug 2016
Manage New York Times 24 Jul 2016
Do business Newsday 03 Jul 2016
Pilot training talk is inspiring
Work in the theatre? The Telegraph Cryptic 06 Apr 2016
Musical entertainment: Laurence to conduct
Run, function The Times Concise 24 Feb 2016
Post Office raised online price of work
Manage
Urn
Perform works by Lawrence
Work out initially what gym costs? The Times Cryptic 05 Nov 2015
Work in the theatre?
35 across will do it for function Irish Times Crosaire 26 Sep 2015
Control over amount charged by gym
Function Newsday 25 Jul 2015
Manage, run The Telegraph Quick 09 Mar 2015
To function, drug user consumed last bit of weed left
Cut to the bone, say
Function
Work with power, energy, speed and before all, love
Cut it out?
Control, as a machine
Function, like a machine
Manage lecture about gymnastics
Run
Work
Run
Make the cut?
Do business
Do business
Make go
Do a surgeon's job
Expect payment where hospital refused to perform surgery
Work
Emulate Christiaan Barnard
Work
Run, as a business
Drive or work
Do surgery
Run
Work
Use a laparoscope, maybe
Manage
Be at the controls
Be a cutup?
Make the cut?
Do surgery (on)
Be in charge of
Surgeon's decision
Run
Run
Keep running
Run
Conduct business
Do surgery
Manage
Run
Manage
Run
Make the cut?
Emulate Christiaan Barnard
Run, as a machine
Work on an organ, maybe
Work on an open-and-shut case?
Work
Manage
Go in, so to speak
Act the cutup?
Manage
Perform surgery
Make the cut?
Run
Run
Run, as heavy machinery
Pull the strings
Do a surgeon's job
Manipulate
Run
Run, as a car
Handle, as machinery
Surgeon's decision
Function
Manage
Make it go
Wield a scalpel
Make work
Make go
Buy and sell
Make the cut?
Take charge of
Be at the controls
Do business
Employ a trocar
Function
Maneuver
Act
Emulate the Mayos
Work
Manage or run
Emulate a b.t.o.
Work or run
Carry on
Conduct.
Get under someone's skin, perhaps?
Use.
What "Men in White" do.
Manage a machine.
Manage; conduct.
Transact business.
Act.
Bring about.
Control.
Produce an effect.
Drive.
Function.
Work.
Manage or use.
Manage.
Handle.
Run.
Run, as an elevator.
Perform.
Make work.
Fix an organ, maybe
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