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OPERATES

8 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

OPERATES is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.

OPERATES root OPERATE-s

verb
  1. intransitivetransitiveTo perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
    • Could someone explain how this meeting operates?
    • In this town, the garbage removal staff operate between six o'clock at midnight.
    • The police had inside knowledge of how the gang operated.
  2. intransitiveTo produce an effect.
  3. intransitiveTo produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system.
  4. intransitiveTo act or produce an effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
  5. transitiveTo bring about as an effect; to cause.
  6. intransitivetransitiveTo 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.
    • The surgeon had to operate on her heart.
    • I'm being operated tomorrow.
  7. intransitivetransitiveTo deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
  8. transitiveTo put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.
    • to operate a machine
    • to operate a system
    • to operate a casino