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Stir

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

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Verb group 4

Evoke 84% connected

To call out; to summon forth.

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Evoke 84% connected

To call out; to summon forth.

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Provoke 84% connected

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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Provoke 84% connected

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 27

Affect 76% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Agitation 76% connected

The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after…

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Arouse 76% connected

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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Commotion 76% connected

Disturbed or violent motion; agitation.

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Din 76% connected

Loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar.

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Displace 76% connected

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…

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Disruption 76% connected

The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks…

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Disturbance 76% connected

An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercis…

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Elicit 76% connected

Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

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Enkindle 76% connected

To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.

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Evoke 76% connected

To call out; to summon forth.

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Fire 76% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Flutter 76% connected

To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.

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Impress 76% connected

To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

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kerfuffle 76% connected

A commotion or fuss

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Kindle 76% connected

To bring forth young.

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Provoke 76% connected

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Ruction 76% connected

An uproar; a quarrel; a noisy outbreak.

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Rumpus 76% connected

A disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel.

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Sensitize 76% connected

To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate.

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Strike 76% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Summon 76% connected

To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; -- often with up.

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To-do 76% connected

Bustle; stir; commotion; ado.

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Tumult 76% connected

The commotion or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion.

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Manner of action 39

Affright 76% connected

To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm.

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Animate 76% connected

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

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Arouse 76% connected

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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Beshrew 76% connected

To curse; to execrate.

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Bless 76% connected

To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate

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Blow 76% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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Churn 76% connected

A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globul…

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Curse 76% connected

To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

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Damn 76% connected

To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.

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Disgust 76% connected

To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- oft…

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Elate 76% connected

Lifted up; raised; elevated.

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Enliven 76% connected

To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire.

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Exalt 76% connected

To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.

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Excite 76% connected

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fright 76% connected

A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.

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Frighten 76% connected

To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.

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Fuel 76% connected

Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Imprecate 76% connected

To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.

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Inspire 76% connected

To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

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Invigorate 76% connected

To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to.

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Invite 76% connected

To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company…

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Maledict 76% connected

Accursed; abominable.

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Paddle 76% connected

To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

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Quicken 76% connected

To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite.

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Repel 76% connected

To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.

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Revolt 76% connected

To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

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Scare 76% connected

To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.

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Sex 76% connected

The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of prope…

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Suck 76% connected

To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressur…

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Tempt 76% connected

To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.

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Thrill 76% connected

A warbling; a trill.

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Tickle 76% connected

To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too…

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Titillate 76% connected

To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather.

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Uplift 76% connected

To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock.

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Vibrate 76% connected

of Vibrate

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Whet 76% connected

To rub or on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening; to sharpen by attrition; as, to whet a knife.

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Narrower term 2

Electricity 76% connected

A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direc…

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Sensation 76% connected

An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one o…

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Derivationally related 6

Splashy 74% connected

Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.

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Splashy 74% connected

Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.

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Stirrer 74% connected

One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer.

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Stirrer 74% connected

One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer.

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Touch 74% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Touch 74% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Synonym 18

Ado 92% connected

To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado.

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Agitate 92% connected

To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Arouse 92% connected

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Budge 92% connected

To move off; to stir; to walk away.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bustle 92% connected

To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.

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Conjure 92% connected

To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure.

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Evoke 92% connected

To call out; to summon forth.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Excite 92% connected

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Flurry 92% connected

A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fuss 92% connected

A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hustle 92% connected

To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Invoke 92% connected

To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; a…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Raise 92% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Shake 92% connected

obs. p. p. of Shake.

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Shift 92% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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Splash 92% connected

To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.

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Stimulate 92% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Touch 92% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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