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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | upset, intimidate |
| Synonyms: | agitate, bewilder, bowl over, buffalo, chill*, confound, daunt, demoralize, disarm, discombobulate, disconcert, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, distract, enervate, enfeeble, floor*, fluster, frighten, get to, give a turn, needle, perturb, psych out, rattle, ride, sap*, shake, spook, throw, throw off, uncalm, undermine, unhinge, unsettle, weaken |
| Antonyms: | encourage, nerve, steel, strengthen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | appall/appal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | horrify |
| Synonyms: | alarm, amaze, astound, awe, consternate, daunt, disconcert, dishearten, dismay, faze, frighten, get to, gross out, insult, intimidate, outrage, petrify, scare, shake, shock, terrify, throw, unnerve |
| Antonyms: | comfort, encourage, reassure, satisfy |
| Main Entry: | cow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | browbeat, intimidate |
| Synonyms: | abash, appall, awe, bludgeon, bluster, buffalo, bulldoze, bully, daunt, discomfit, disconcert, dishearten, dismay, dragoon, embarrass, enforce, faze, frighten, hector, lean on, overawe, push around, rattle, scare, showboat, strong-arm, subdue, terrorize, turn on the heat, unnerve, walk heavy |
| Antonyms: | encourage, hearten, inspirit |
| Main Entry: | deaden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish, muffle, quiet |
| Synonyms: | KO, abate, alleviate, anesthetize, benumb, blunt, check, chloroform, consume, cushion, damp, dampen, depress, deprive, desensitize, destroy, devitalize, dim, dope, drown, dull, etherize, exhaust, freeze, frustrate, gas, hush, impair, incapacitate, injure, knock out, lay out, lessen, mute, numb, paralyze, put out of order, put to sleep, quieten, reduce, repress, retard, slow, smother, soften, stifle, stun, stupefy, suppress, tire, tone down, unnerve, weaken |
| Antonyms: | animate, build, enliven, increase, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | discourage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dishearten, dispirit |
| Synonyms: | abash, afflict, alarm, appall, awe, beat down, bother, break one's heart, bully, cast down, chill, confuse, cow, dampen, dash, daunt, deject, demoralize, deprecate, depress, dismay, disparage, distress, droop, frighten, intimidate, irk, overawe, prostrate, repress, scare, throw cold water on, trouble, try, unnerve, vex, weigh |
| Antonyms: | encourage, hearten, inspire, inspirit |
| Main Entry: | dismay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disappoint, fill with consternation |
| Synonyms: | abash, affright, agitate, alarm, appall, bewilder, bother, chill, confound, daunt, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, discourage, dishearten, disillusion, dispirit, disquiet, distress, disturb, dumbfound, embarrass, faze, flummox, fluster, foul up, frighten, get to, horrify, louse up, mess up*, muck up, mystify, nonplus, paralyze, perplex, put off, puzzle, rattle, scare, screw up, shake, snafu, take aback, terrify, terrorize, throw, throw into a tizzy, unhinge, unnerve, upset |
| Antonyms: | assure, encourage, make happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disturb |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bother, upset |
| Synonyms: | afflict, agitate, ail, alarm, amaze, annoy, arouse, astound, badger, burn up, complicate, confound, confuse, depress, discompose, dishearten, disrupt, distract, distress, excite, fluster, frighten, gall, grieve, harass, interfere, interrupt, intrude, irk, irritate, make uneasy, molest, muddle, outrage, pain, perplex, perturb, pester, pique, plague, provoke, puzzle, rattle, rouse, ruffle, shake, shake up, startle, tire, trouble, unhinge, unnerve, unsettle, vex, worry |
| Notes: | disturb is based on Latin turba 'tumult' and disturb applies better to physical agitation and perturb to mental agitation |
| Antonyms: | appease, calm, comfort, pacify, quiet, reassure, soothe |
| Main Entry: | enervate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire, wear out |
| Synonyms: | debilitate, devitalize, disable, enfeeble, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate, jade, paralyze, sap, unnerve, vitiate, weaken, weary |
| Notes: | energize means to cause to be alert or to invigorate while enervate means to weaken mentally or morally enervate means 'drain energy or vigor from' (from Latin enervare 'weaken by extraction of the sinews') and innervate means 'supply with energy' (Latin in- 'in' and nervus 'strength, vigor, energy') innervate means 'to stimulate or give nervous energy,' the opposite of enervate |
| Antonyms: | activate, animate, empower, energize, invigorate, liven, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | enfeeble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make very weak |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, blunt, cripple, debilitate, deplete, devitalize, diminish, disable, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate, sap, undermine, unhinge, unnerve, weaken, wear out |
| Antonyms: | strengthen |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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