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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | start, evoke; stimulate |
| Synonyms: | animate, arouse, awaken, begin, bestir, bring about, bring down, bring on, bring to one's feet, build up, call forth, cause, challenge, draw forth, electrify, elicit, enthuse, excite, fire, fire up, galvanize, generate, give rise to, incite, induce, inflame, innervate, innerve, inspire, instigate, kindle, lead to, make, motivate, move, occasion, pique, precipitate, prime, produce, promote, prompt, quicken, rally, rouse, roust, stir, suscitate, thrill, titillate, titivate, waken, whet |
| Notes: | provoke means to stir up or arouse - or to incite to anger or resentment; evoke means to call forth or call to mind emotions, feelings, and responses |
| Antonyms: | end, halt, prevent, stop |
| Main Entry: | send |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | please |
| Synonyms: | charm, delight, electrify, enrapture, enthrall, enthuse, excite, intoxicate, move, ravish, stir, thrill, titillate, turn on |
| Antonyms: | displease |
| Main Entry: | stir |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | incite, stimulate |
| Synonyms: | abet, actuate, add fuel to fire, adjy, affect, agitate, animate, arouse, awaken, bestir, challenge, craze, drive, electrify, energize, excite, feed the fire, foment, galvanize, impel, inflame, inspire, kindle, make waves, motivate, move, prompt, provoke, psych, quicken, raise, rally, rile, rouse, roust, rout, set, spark, spook, spur, stir embers, stir up, switch on, thrill, touch, trigger, urge, vitalize, wake, waken, whet, whip up, work up |
| Antonyms: | calm, discourage |
| Main Entry: | throb |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pulsate, beat |
| Synonyms: | flutter, palpitate, pitpat, pound, pulse, resonate, thrill, thump, tingle, tremble, twitter, vibrate |
| Main Entry: | tickle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make laugh |
| Synonyms: | amuse, brush, caress, convulse, delight, divert, enchant, entertain, excite, gratify, itch, pat, pet, please, stimulate, stroke, thrill, tingle, titillate, touch, vellicate |
| Main Entry: | tingle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feel tickled, itchy |
| Synonyms: | creep, get excited, have goose bumps, itch, prickle, shiver, sting, thrill, throb, tickle, twitter |
| Main Entry: | titillate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | excite, stimulate |
| Synonyms: | amuse, arouse, entertain, grab, grapple, hook, interest, palpate, provoke, switch on, tantalize, tease, thrill, tickle, tickle pink, turn on |
| Notes: | titillate means to arouse, stimulate, or tickle in a pleasant way; titivate means to adorn or spruce up |
| Antonyms: | disenchant, repulse, turn off |
| Main Entry: | transport |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | captivate, delight |
| Synonyms: | agitate, carry away, electrify, elevate, enchant, enrapture, entrance, excite, inflame, move, provoke, quicken, ravish, send, slay, spellbind, stimulate, stir, thrill, trance, uplight, wow |
| Antonyms: | disenchant, repulse, turn off |
| Main Entry: | turn on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | excite, please |
| Synonyms: | arouse, attract, captivate, enchant, get started, initiate, introduce, show, stimulate, stir up, thrill, titillate, work up |
| Antonyms: | disenchant, disgust, displease, turn off |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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