v
To become preoccupied by (some topic or activity).
v
(transitive, obsolete) To excite.
v
Eye dialect spelling of admire. [(obsolete, transitive) To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.]
v
(transitive, obsolete) To set in motion; to actuate.
v
To touch up or enhance a photograph or person, often with intent to mislead.
v
(rare, perhaps nonstandard) To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.
v
(transitive) To rouse into action; to inspirit; to inspire.
v
(obsolete) To set in motion; to stir up, excite.
v
(colloquial, usually with up) To excite.
v
(transitive) To stimulate or induce (feelings).
n
Someone or something that arouses.
v
(intransitive, informal) To experience bliss; to be blissful.
v
(figuratively, transitive) To concoct.
v
(transitive, slang) To inject tension into (a situation, etc.) for one's own amusement; to stir things up.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To make someone happier or less downcast.
adj
(obsolete) Colliding; clashing.
n
(obsolete) struggling, conflict, strife
n
(archaic) Rousing, stirring up; excitement, agitation.
n
(figuratively) A very difficult and trying experience, that acts as a refining or hardening process.
v
(by extension) To spark or provoke.
v
(informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
n
(medicine) The act of looking downward.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To meddle; interfere.
n
(obsolete) A cause, reason.
v
Obsolete form of incite. [(transitive) To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.]
v
(transitive, archaic) to place or bring a curse upon; curse
v
To give free vent to speech.
v
(transitive) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal) To incite; urge on; encourage.
n
(idiomatic) The moment of a sudden unexpected discovery.
v
(transitive) To make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.); aggravate; exasperate.
v
(obsolete) To excite, stir up.
v
(transitive) To stir the emotions of.
v
To put in vigorous action.
v
(obsolete) To stimulate.
n
(medicine) Basic medical care given to an injury victim, usually where the injury is slight or where better care is not available.
v
To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
n
Someone or something that foreshortens.
v
To stir up, stimulate, enliven, incite.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To treat something with less care than it deserves; to ignore.
v
To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation.
v
To encourage or stimulate.
adv
So as to goad or incite.
adj
(informal) to dissociate or act abnormally for a short period of time.
adj
(literally, figuratively) Fraught by hurdles, obstacles, or impediments; hindersome.
adj
Having undergone an impact.
v
(archaic, poetic, transitive) To pave.
v
(obsolete) To import; to signify.
adj
Having the quality of cutting; incisive.
v
(transitive) To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.
adj
That incites (rouses, stirs up or excites), or provides incitement.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To allure; to lay a bait for.
v
(transitive) to goad or urge (a person) forward, especially to wicked actions; to provoke
v
(obsolete) To stimulate; to excite.
v
To rise up as an insurgent or in an insurgency.
v
(transitive) To subject to invective; to censure or rail against.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To draw in or away; to entice, inveigle.
v
(archaic) To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To survive by consuming only a certain thing or things.
v
(transitive) To fix one's gaze upon (someone) until they look away; to stare down.
v
(idiomatic) To ignore something wrong; to connive (at), to turn a blind eye.
v
(transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
v
(reflexive) To exert oneself.
n
An obtrusion; the act of something that obtrudes.
n
An interference or intrusion.
v
(transitive) To physically harm, pain.
v
(transitive) To surpass in plots or intrigues.
v
To pretend not to have noticed (something, especially a mistake or flaw); to pass over (something) without censure or punishment.
v
(nonstandard, non-native speakers' English) To provoke.
v
(transitive) To bring about a reaction.
v
(idiomatic) To superficially alter something in the hope of making it seem more appealing than it is in actuality.
v
(literally) To clean and arrange in an orderly manner the furnishings and other contents of one's house.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To satiate.
n
The act by which something is quelled.
v
(rare) To jolt or shake again.
v
(transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
adj
That rouses or excites.
v
(obsolete) To impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct.
v
(transitive) To regard with suspicion; to question.
v
(intransitive, colloquial) To rest from work for a time.
n
One who, or that which, squelches.
v
(transitive) To arouse or excite (passion or action).
v
(obsolete) To insinuate; to offer indirectly.
v
(intransitive) To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something).
v
(transitive) To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
v
(transitive) To press; urge; compel.
adj
(dialectal or obsolete) Full; rich.
v
To miss because one is looking too low.
v
(transitive) To tidy up (a mess).
v
(obsolete, followed by "to" before the object) To object or urge as a matter of reproach
n
One who upsets (something); a disrupter.
v
(transitive) To provoke; to exasperate.
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