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  • verb To raise; to excite; to stir up.
  • verb To develop.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb form or accumulate steadily
  • verb bolster or strengthen
  • verb come up with
  • verb develop

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synonyms (166)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Pap test
  2. aggravate
  3. agitate
  4. anatomic diagnosis
  5. annoy
  6. arouse
  7. arrange
  8. awake
  9. awaken
  10. beat
  11. beat up
  12. biological diagnosis
  13. biopsy
  14. blow the coals
  15. blow up
  16. breed
  17. bristle
  18. calculate
  19. call forth
  20. call up
  21. cast
  22. cause
  23. chafe
  24. churn
  25. churn up
  26. clinical diagnosis
  27. concert
  28. contrive
  29. convulse
  30. cut out
  31. cytodiagnosis
  32. design
  33. devise
  34. diagnosis
  35. differential diagnosis
  36. digital examination
  37. disarrange
  38. discompose
  39. disquiet
  40. disturb
  41. electrocardiography
  42. electroencephalography
  43. electromyography
  44. embitter
  45. engender
  46. enkindle
  47. enrage
  48. examination
  49. exasperate
  50. excite
  51. fan
  52. fan the fire
  53. fan the flame
  54. feed the fire
  55. ferment
  56. figure
  57. fire
  58. flame
  59. flurry
  60. foment
  61. forecast
  62. frame
  63. frenzy
  64. fret
  65. get up
  66. hatch
  67. heat
  68. heat up
  69. huff
  70. impassion
  71. incense
  72. incite
  73. induce
  74. inflame
  75. infuriate
  76. instigate
  77. intend
  78. irritate
  79. key up
  80. kindle
  81. laboratory diagnosis
  82. lather up
  83. lay plans
  84. light the fuse
  85. light up
  86. madden
  87. make a projection
  88. make arrangements
  89. mammography
  90. methodize
  91. miff
  92. move
  93. muster up
  94. nettle
  95. occasion
  96. oral examination
  97. organize
  98. overexcite
  99. paddle
  100. peeve
  101. perturb
  102. perturbate
  103. physical diagnosis
  104. physical examination
  105. pique
  106. plan
  107. plan ahead
  108. postmortem diagnosis
  109. prearrange
  110. produce
  111. program
  112. project
  113. provoke
  114. put up to
  115. rally
  116. rankle
  117. rationalize
  118. rile
  119. ripple
  120. roil
  121. roughen
  122. rouse
  123. ruffle
  124. rumple
  125. schedule
  126. schematize
  127. serodiagnosis
  128. set astir
  129. set fire to
  130. set on
  131. set on fire
  132. set up
  133. shake
  134. shake up
  135. shape
  136. sic on
  137. smear
  138. steam up
  139. stir
  140. stir the blood
  141. stir the embers
  142. stir the feelings
  143. stir up
  144. study
  145. summon up
  146. swirl
  147. systematize
  148. test
  149. tickle
  150. trouble
  151. turn on
  152. upset
  153. urinalysis
  154. uroscopy
  155. vex
  156. wake
  157. wake up
  158. waken
  159. warm
  160. warm the blood
  161. whet
  162. whip
  163. whip up
  164. whisk
  165. work into
  166. work out

hypernyms (7)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. acquire
  2. develop
  3. get
  4. grow
  5. increase
  6. make grow
  7. produce

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