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kindled
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | start, inspire |
| Synonyms: | animate, excite, kindle, precipitate, provoke, set in motion, set off, stimulate, stir, touch off, trigger |
| Antonyms: | cease, halt, stop |
| Main Entry: | wake/waken |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | excite, stimulate |
| Synonyms: | activate, animate, arouse, awaken, challenge, enliven, fire, fire up, freshen, galvanize, grasp, jazz up, key up, kindle, notice, pep up, provoke, quicken, rally, renew, rouse, see, steam up, stir up, switch on, understand, whet, zip up |
| Antonyms: | discourage, dissuade |
| Main Entry: | whet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | arouse, excite |
| Synonyms: | animate, awaken, challenge, enhance, incite, increase, kindle, pique, provoke, quicken, rally, rouse, stimulate, stir, wake, waken |
| Antonyms: | blunt, dampen, dishearten |
| Main Entry: | whip up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | incite, excite |
| Synonyms: | abet, agitate, arouse, compel, disturb, drive, foment, goad, hound, inflame, instigate, kindle, prick, prod, provoke, push, raise, set, set on, spur, start, stir, stir up, urge, work up |
| Antonyms: | discourage, dissuade |
| Main Entry: | enkindle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | light |
| Synonyms: | burn, fire, ignite, kindle, set fire to |
| Main Entry: | impassion |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fire |
| Synonyms: | animate, electrify, enkindle, enliven, enthuse, exalt, galvanize, heighten, incite, inflame, inform, inspire, inspirit, intensify, intoxicate, irritate, kindle, provoke, quicken, rouse, stir, thrill |
| Main Entry: | luminesce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | glow |
| Synonyms: | be suffused, blare, blaze, blush, brighten, color, crimson, fill, flame*, flare, flush, gleam, glimmer, glisten, glitter, ignite, incandesce, kindle, light, mantle, pink*, pinken, redden, rose, rouge, shine*, smolder, thrill, tingle, twinkle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vitalize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | quicken |
| Synonyms: | accelerate, activate, actuate, animate, arouse, awaken, dispatch, energize, excite, expedite, galvanize, goad, grow, hasten, hurry, impel, incite, increase, innervate, innerve, inspire, kindle, liven, make haste, motivate, move, pique*, precipitate, promote, refresh, revitalize, revive, rouse, shake up, speed, spring*, spur, step up, stimulate, stir*, strengthen, urge, vivificate, vivify |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | cause |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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aboriginal, agnogenic, ambiotic, cacestogenous, causal, connate, efficacious, embryonic, embryotic, germinal, original, originated, primary, primitive, primordial, princeps, radical, seminal, subjacent
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