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keep engaged; "engaged the gears"

direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"

perform surgery on; "The doctors operated ont he patient but failed to save his life"

happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?"

keep engaged; "engaged the gears"

direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"

perform surgery on; "The doctors operated ont he patient but failed to save his life"

happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?"

To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.

To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.

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.

To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.

To produce, as an effect; to cause.

To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.

To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.

To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.

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.

To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.

To produce, as an effect; to cause.

To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.

To work; produce a certain effect; perform a surgical action upon the body.

1. To cause a movement of the bowels, said of a laxative or cathartic remedy. 2. To work upon the body by the hands or by means of cutting or other instruments for the purpose of correcting a deformity, removing a tumor or a limb, etc.

To work: to exert strength: to produce any effect: to exert moral power: (med.) to take effect upon the human system: (surgery) to perform some unusual act upon the body with the hand or an instrument.

To effect: to produce by agency.

To effect; produce.

To exert power; produce effect; act.

To put in action; work; run; conduct; accomplish.

To effect a result; work.

To produce by agency.

To work; to act; to produce an effect; to perform an operation on.

To exert power or strength, either physical or mechanical; to produce any effect; to produce by agency; to cut or open a part of the body with a view to healing, as a surgeon.