The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word REAR , but the solution may also be ERECT which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in LA Times).
Raise crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| REAR | 33 % | 4 |
| ELEVATE | 18 % | 7 |
| HOIST | 13 % | 5 |
| ERECT | 10 % | 5 |
| BOOST | 3 % | 5 |
| BREED | 3 % | 5 |
| LIFT | 3 % | 4 |
| EXALT | 3 % | 5 |
| HIKE | 2 % | 4 |
| PARENT | 2 % | 6 |
| GROW | 1 % | 4 |
| SETUP | 1 % | 5 |
| EMPLOYEESREWARD | 1 % | 15 |
| HEFT | 1 % | 4 |
| SALARYHIKE | 1 % | 10 |
| STEPUP | 1 % | 6 |
| HIKEUP | 1 % | 6 |
| HEAVE | 1 % | 5 |
| HOVE | 1 % | 4 |
| UPREAR | 1 % | 6 |
| LEAVEN | 1 % | 6 |
| ESCALATE | 1 % | 8 |
| LEVITATE | 1 % | 8 |
| UPLIFT | 1 % | 6 |
| BRINGUP | 1 % | 7 |
Why may EXALT be the right solution?
The word "exalt" can mean to raise someone or something in rank, power, or character. This makes it a suitable answer for the clue "Raise."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Raise
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- promote
- bring up
- heighten
- elevation
- kick upstairs
- elevate
- enhance
- upraise
- grow
- advance
- lift
- produce
Crossword Answer definitions
REAR verb- To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
- (said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
- To rise up on the hind legs
- (usually with "up") To get angry.
- To rise high above, tower above.
- To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- To construct by building; to set up
- To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- To lift and take up.
- To rouse; to strip up.
- To move; stir.
- (of geese) To carve.
- (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)
- (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
- (of meats) Rare.
- The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
- Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- The buttocks, a creature's bottom
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- To sodomize (perform anal sex)
- Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost
- Early; soon
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result REAR
- Bring up
- Hitchcock's "____ Window"
- Hitchcock's window
- Kind of guard or end
- Last one brings it up
- Rise high in the air
- Backseat
- Duff
- Hindquarters
- Stern
More clues leading to the result ELEVATE
- Lift the spirits
- Raise
- Aggrandize
- Buoy up
- Get a raise?
- Idolize
- Use a jack on
- Move toward the top
- Upgrade
- Take higher
More clues leading to the result HOIST
- __ with one's own petard
- Elevate
- Yank up
- Jack Be Nimble is hot (5)
- Lift up high
- Lift
- Lift up
- Do some heavy lifting
- Raise up
- Give a lift to
More clues leading to the result ERECT
- Standing up
- In a vertical, upright position
- Not on all fours
- Set up
- Straight up
- Upright
- Upright in posture
- Build
- Construct
- How Cro-Magnon man walked
More clues leading to the result BOOST
- Give a leg up
- Promote
- Battery charge
- Supercharge
- Upward push
- Shot in the 29-Down
- Raise
- Leg up
- Shove up from below
- Increase
More clues leading to the result BREED
- Start a family
- Plymouth Rock, to a chicken farmer
- Afghan hound or Angora goat, for instance
- Make babies
- Reproduce
- Collie or Yorkie
- Lhasa apso, e.g.
- Lineage
- Dog show classification
- Kennel club info
More clues leading to the result LIFT
- Elevator
- Hoist
- Hitchhiker's need
- Gank
- Boost
- Harrods conveyance
- Ride
- Pump iron
- Hitchhiker's hope
- Heightening shoe device
More clues leading to the result EXALT
- Pay public tribute
- Honor
- More than praise
- Put on a pedestal
- Glorify
- Lift high
- Praise to the skies
- Deify
- Lionize
- Canonize
More clues leading to the result HIKE
- Escalate
- Follow a nature trail
- Escalation
- Quarterback's bark
- It's a snap in the NFL
- Tramp
- "Give me the ball!"
- Increase in cost
- Walk in the woods
- Boy Scouts outing
More clues leading to the result PARENT
- Bring into the world
- Forebear
- Progenitor
- Report card signer
- Report-card signer
- Pop, e.g.
- Spock reader
- Mom or pop
- Bring up
- Pop, maybe
More clues leading to the result GROW
More clues leading to the result SETUP
- Get ready to play
- Get ready to work
- Rigged fight
- Arrangement
- Sine __ non
- Frame
- Framed, in a way
- Organize
- Prepared
- Program that installs new software
More clues leading to the result EMPLOYEESREWARD
More clues leading to the result HEFT
- Lift up
- Weight
- Significance
- Test the weight of
- Weightiness
- Hoist
- Pick up
- Hallmark of a tome
- Tome's attribute
- Carry with effort
More clues leading to the result SALARYHIKE
More clues leading to the result STEPUP
- Accelerate
- Increase by degrees
- Come forward
- Meet a challenge
- Increase
- Intensify
- Increase, as production
- Take on responsibility
- Answer the call
- Rise to the challenge ... and a hint to a hidden word in 5-, 10-, 25- and 28-Down
More clues leading to the result HIKEUP
More clues leading to the result HEAVE
- Hurl
- Lift with force
- Toss
- Fling
- Throw with force
- Fling with force
- "Everyone push on three; 1, 2, 3!"
- "Ready and ... PUSH!"
- Upchuck
- Swell at sea
More clues leading to the result HOVE
- Hurled
- Threw overboard, as an anchor
- Hauled on board
- Hoisted, nautically
- Brighton and ___
- Hoisted aboard
- Moved, at sea
- Stopped at sea, with "to"
- Threw with force, at sea
- __ to: halted, nautically
More clues leading to the result UPREAR
More clues leading to the result LEAVEN
- Add yeast (6)
- Get the batter up?
- Raise dough?
- Add yeast
- Cause to rise
- Do what yeast does
- Give rise to?
- It gets the batter up
- Add yeast to
- It'll help your dough grow
More clues leading to the result ESCALATE
- Step up
- Grow more intense
- Intensify
- Heat up
- Snowball
- Get out of hand in a hurry
- Up the ante
- Swell
- Kick up
- Increase in intensity
More clues leading to the result LEVITATE
- Raise
- Get up off the floor
- Get a lift, in a way
- Get up in the air
- Float, in a way
- Rise in the air, as in a magic act
- Perform a magic trick
- Float in the air.
- Float in air.
- Do séance work