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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, augment |
| Synonyms: | advance, aggravate, amplify, assemble, boost, build up, collect, congregate, congress, dignify, enhance, enlarge, escalate, exaggerate, exalt, fetch up, forgather, form, gather, get, goose up, goose, heighten, hike, hike up, honor, inflate, intensify, jack up, jump, jump up, levy, look up, magnify, mass, mobilize, mushroom, muster, obtain, perk up, pick up, promote, put up, pyramid, rally, recruit, reinforce, rendezvous, run up, send through the roof, shoot up, snowball, strengthen, up |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' one rears children and raises crops |
| Antonyms: | decrease, depress, diminish, lessen, lower, reduce |
| Main Entry: | rile |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | anger, upset |
| Synonyms: | acerbate, aggravate, annoy, bother, bug*, disturb, exasperate, gall, get one's goat, get under skin, grate, inflame, irk, irritate, nettle, peeve, pique, provoke, put out, roil, rub one the wrong way, try one's patience, vex |
| Antonyms: | make happy, please |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, grow |
| Synonyms: | accelerate, add to, advance, aggravate, arise, ascend, augment, billow, build, bulge, climb, deepen, distend, double, enhance, enlarge, expand, go through the roof, go up, heighten, improve, inflate, intensate, intensify, levitate, lift, magnify, mount, move up, multiply, perk up, pick up, pile up, raise, redouble, rouse, soar, speed up, spread, stack up, swell, take off, upsurge, wax |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, lessen, lower, recede |
| Main Entry: | rouse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stimulate, excite |
| Synonyms: | aggravate, agitate, anger, animate, arouse, ask for it, awaken, bestir, bug*, challenge, craze, deepen, disturb, enhance, enliven, exhilarate, fire up, foment, galvanize, get going, heighten, incite, inflame, innervate, innerve, instigate, intensate, intensify, key up, kindle, magnify, make waves, mount, move, needle, pep up, pique, provoke, quicken, rally, redouble, rile, rise, startle, steam up, stir, trigger, urge, vivify, wake, wake up, waken, whet, whip up, work up |
| Antonyms: | calm, disenchant, dull |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rub the wrong way |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | irritate |
| Synonyms: | aggravate, anger, annoy, bother, bug*, disturb, drive up the wall, enrage, get on one's nerves, get to, get under one's skin, infuriate, irk, needle, pester, rattle, ruffle one's feathers |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | swell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become larger |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, add to, aggravate, amplify, augment, balloon, be inflated, become bloated, become distended, become swollen, belly, billow, blister, bloat, bulge, dilate, distend, enhance, enlarge, expand, extend, fatten, fill out, grow, grow larger, heighten, increase, intensity, mount, plump, pouch, pout, protrude, puff, puff up, rise, round out, surge, tumefy, uprise, well up |
| Antonyms: | compress, concentrate, contract, shrink |
| Main Entry: | vex |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distress, bother |
| Synonyms: | abrade, afflict, aggravate, agitate, anger, annoy, be at, chafe, depress, displease, disquiet, disturb, eat*, embarrass, exasperate, fret, gall*, get in one's hair, get under one's skin, give a bad time, give a hard time, grate on, harass, harry, hassle, infuriate, irk, irritate, molest, needle, nettle, offend, peeve, perplex, pester, pique, plague, provoke, put out, rasp, ride, rile, tease, tick off, torment, trouble, turn off, upset, worry |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, help, please, soothe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | worsen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish, decay |
| Synonyms: | aggravate, corrode, damage, decline, degenerate, depress, descend, deteriorate, disintegrate, exacerbate, fall off, get worse, go downhill, impair, lower, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sink |
| Antonyms: | improve, increase |
| Main Entry: | add insult to injury |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make worse |
| Synonyms: | add fuel to the fire, aggravate, exacerbate, heighten, provoke, rub salt in the wound, slap in the face, twist the knife, worsen |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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