| Main Entry: | whip up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | incite, excite |
Synonyms: |
abet, agitate, arouse, compel, disturb, drive, foment, goad, hound, inflame, instigate, kindle, prick, prod, provoke, push, raise, set, set on, spur, start, stir, stir up, urge, work up |
Antonyms: |
discourage, dissuade |
| Main Entry: | arouse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | excite, entice |
Synonyms: |
agitate, alert, animate, awaken, call, challenge, electrify, enliven, fire up, foment, foster, goad, heat up, incite, inflame, instigate, kindle, move, provoke, rally, rouse, send, spark, spur, stimulate, stir, thrill, turn on, wake up, waken, warm, whet, whip up, work up |
Antonyms: |
bore, calm, lull, quiet |
| Main Entry: | compose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create writing, artwork, or music |
Synonyms: |
author, bang out, cast, clef, coin a phrase, comp, conceive, contrive, cook up, design, devise, discover, draw up, dream up, fabricate, forge, form, formulate, frame*, fudge together, ghost*, ghostwrite, imagine, indite, invent, knock off, knock out, make up, note down, orchestrate, originate, pen, poetize, produce, push pencil, put down, put pen to paper, score, scribble, script, set type, set up, time, turn out, whip up, write |
| Notes: | compose is preferred when the parts of the whole being assembled are regarded as nonconcrete and more general; when the parts are concrete and specific, then constitute is more appropriate, and then there is comprise, which can mean 'comprehending or encompassing certain parts' |
| Main Entry: | construct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assemble, build |
Synonyms: |
build up, cobble up, compose, compound, constitute, cook up, create, design, dream up, elevate, engineer, envision, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, formulate, found, frame, fudge together, hammer out, hoke up, imagine, invent, make, manufacture, organize, prefab, produce, put out, put together, put up, raise, rear, set up, shape, throw together, throw up, trump up, uprear, whip up |
Antonyms: |
annihilate, break, demolish, destroy, dismantle, raze, ruin |
| Main Entry: | contrive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | invent, design |
Synonyms: |
come up with, concoct, construct, cook up, create, devise, dream up, engineer, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, formulate, frame*, handle, hatch, improvise, make, make up*, manipulate, manufacture, move, plan, plot, project, rig, scheme, throw together, trump up, vamp, wangle, whip up |
Antonyms: |
disorganize |
| Main Entry: | devise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceive, dream up |
Synonyms: |
ad-lib, arrange, blueprint*, brainstorm*, cast, chart, cogitate, come up with, concoct, construct, contrive, cook up, craft, create, design, discover, dope out, fake it, forge, form, formulate, frame*, get off, hatch, head trip, imagine, improvise, intrigue, invent, machinate, make up, mastermind*, plan, play it by ear, plot, prepare, project, scheme, shape, spark, think up, throw together, trump up, vamp, whip up, work out |
Antonyms: |
borrow |
| Main Entry: | egg on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | push to do something |
Synonyms: |
agitate, arouse, drive, encourage, excite, exhort, goad, incite, instigate, pique, prick, prod, prompt, propel, rally, sic, spur, stimulate, stir up, urge, whip up |
Antonyms: |
discourage, dissuade, hold back, talk out of |
| Main Entry: | enrage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make very upset |
Synonyms: |
T-off, aggravate, anger, ask for it, exasperate, get under skin, hack*, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, ire, irritate, madden, make blood boil, make see red, needle, provoke, rile, steam up, umbrage, whip up |
Antonyms: |
appease, calm, compose, pacify, placate, please, soothe |
| Main Entry: | fabricate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | manufacture |
Synonyms: |
assemble, brainstorm, build, cobble up, compose, concoct, construct, contrive, cook up, create, devise, dream up, erect, fashion, fit together, form, formulate, frame, head trip, invent, join, knock together, make, make up, mix, organize, piece together, prefab, produce, put together, shape, structure, think up, throw together, throw up, turn out, whip up, whomp up |
Antonyms: |
break, demolish, destroy, ruin, wreck |
| Main Entry: | fan |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | provoke |
Synonyms: |
add fuel, agitate, arouse, enkindle, excite, expand, extend, impassion, increase, rouse, stimulate, stir up, whip up, work up |