The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word REAR , but the solution may also be EXALT which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York 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 | 34 % | 4 |
| ELEVATE | 19 % | 7 |
| HOIST | 12 % | 5 |
| ERECT | 10 % | 5 |
| EXALT | 3 % | 5 |
| BOOST | 3 % | 5 |
| BREED | 3 % | 5 |
| LIFT | 3 % | 4 |
| HIKE | 2 % | 4 |
| PARENT | 2 % | 6 |
| SETUP | 1 % | 5 |
| GROW | 1 % | 4 |
| UPLIFT | 1 % | 6 |
| BRINGUP | 1 % | 7 |
| 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 |
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 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 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 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 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 GROW
More clues leading to the result UPLIFT
More clues leading to the result BRINGUP
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