The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word EMBOSS
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result EMBOSS
- Give some relief to setter rejected by editor?
- Yours truly lifted head to carve
- Rising Middle East manager to do relief work
- After return, yours truly and gaffer raise relief
- The writer turned up ahead of manager to get raise
- Do an outstanding job?
- Money pencilled in European leader’s to raise in relief?
- Do relief work in Middle East, backed by employer
- Proudly raise letter to gaffer
- English model hugs bishop to raise some relief
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What does EMBOSS mean?
EMBOSS verb- To mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol.
- To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, etc.
- Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest.
- To drive (an animal) to extremity; to exhaust, to make foam at the mouth.
- To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to enclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
- To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.