stir up
set off
incite
instigate
cue
ert
pick
work
shit-stir
provocate
urge
goad
inflammatory
agitate
chafe
incense
enturbulate
lose one's temper
light the touch-paper
see red
get up someone's ass
inflame
furor
pother
dither
get under one's goat
rattle someone's cage
flap
tease
spleen
rile
steam
get on someone's tits
nark
drive someone crazy
madden
enrage
awake
toss
furiousness
thresh
thrash
thrash about
ferment
convulse
rear
cut up rough
thresh about
cut up nasty
jactitate
rouse
slash
ream
upstir
frost
arc up
aggravate
burn up
do one's block
have one's back up
comb someone's hair the wrong way
snarl
spoffle
incitation
grig
fret
provocation
hotblooded
snap
incitement
switch
fire
verberation
snitty
hullabaloo
tight
brisk
ire
devil
evoke
kick up
brawl
fly into a rage
offensive
irk
grind one's gears
gripe
provoke
wap
get bent out of shape
call forth
lash
rampingly
grotty
roil
volatile
inflammatory
hotblooded
snitty
tight
brisk
offensive
grotty
volatile
rampingly
furor
furiousness
incitation
provocation
incitement
verberation
wap
steam
stir up
set off
incite
instigate
cue
ert
pick
work
shit-stir
provocate
urge
goad
agitate
chafe
incense
enturbulate
lose one's temper
light the touch-paper
see red
get up someone's ass
inflame
pother
dither
get under one's goat
rattle someone's cage
flap
tease
spleen
rile
steam
get on someone's tits
nark
drive someone crazy
madden
enrage
awake
toss
thresh
thrash
thrash about
ferment
convulse
rear
cut up rough
thresh about
cut up nasty
jactitate
rouse
slash
ream
upstir
frost
arc up
aggravate
burn up
do one's block
have one's back up
comb someone's hair the wrong way
snarl
spoffle
grig
fret
snap
switch
fire
hullabaloo
ire
devil
evoke
kick up
brawl
fly into a rage
irk
grind one's gears
gripe
provoke
get bent out of shape
call forth
lash
roil
verb
- To spark or provoke.
- To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
- To give someone a cue signal.
- To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.
noun
- A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.
- A marker or signal that triggers something, such as the start of an audio recording.
- The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next actor to speak; any word or words which serve to remind an actor to speak or to do something; a catchword.
- The name of the Latin-script letter Q.
- An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
- A hint or intimation.
verb
- provoke
- select carefully from a group
- look for and gather
- harass with constant criticism
- remove in small bits
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- pilfer or rob
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
noun
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the act of choosing or selecting
verb
- provoke or excite
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- be employed
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- perform as expected when applied
- shape, form, or improve a material
- give a workout to
- proceed along a path
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- move in an agitated manner
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- cause to work
- prepare for crops
- behave in a certain way when handled
- have and exert influence or effect
- operate in or through
- cause to operate or function
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- make something, usually for a specific function
- move into or onto
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- cause to undergo fermentation
- go sour or spoil
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
noun
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- the occupation for which you are paid
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- a place where work is done
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
verb
- To provoke; to exasperate.
- To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
- To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
- To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
- To press onward or forward.
- To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
- To press hard upon; to follow closely.
noun
verb
- To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
- To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
- To be worn by rubbing.
- To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
- To fret and wear by rubbing.
- To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
noun
verb
- To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
- To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
- To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
- To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
- To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
- To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
verb
- To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
- To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).
- To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately.
- To entice, tempt.
- To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
- To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
- To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.
- To backcomb.
noun
verb
- To make angry.
- To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- To be covered with condensed water vapor.
- To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- To travel by means of steam power.
- To cook with steam.
- To produce or vent steam.
- To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
noun
- Pent-up anger.
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- mist, fog
- A steam-powered vehicle.
- Internal energy for motive power.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- The vapor formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase.
adj
verb
- move or stir about violently
- give a thrashing to; beat hard
- dance the slam dance
- beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all
- move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation
- beat the seeds out of a grain
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
noun
verb
- To get angry.
- To construct by building; to set up
- To rise up on the hind legs
- To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- To move; stir.
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- To sodomize (perform anal sex)
- To breed and raise.
- To carve.
- To rise high above, tower above.
- To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
adj
noun
- Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- The buttocks or bottom.
- The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.
adv
verb
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
- To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- To pull by main strength; to haul.
- To tell off; to criticise.
noun
- An arousal.
- The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
verb
- To yell at or berate.
- To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.
- To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider.
- To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
- To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
- To remove (material) by reaming.
- To remove burrs and debris from a freshly bored hole.
noun
verb
- To anger or annoy.
- To cover with frost.
- To become covered with frost.
- To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.
- To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
- To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
noun
- A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
- Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
- The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
- A shade of white, like that of frost.
- A kind of light diffuser.
verb
verb
verb
- To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- To be anxious, to worry.
- To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- To press down the string behind a fret.
- To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- A channel or passage created by the sea.
- One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
verb
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- move or strike with a noise
- close with a snapping motion
- make a sharp sound
- move with a snapping sound
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
- put in play with a snap
- cause to make a snapping sound
- lose control of one's emotions
- bring the jaws together
- record on photographic film
noun
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a spell of cold weather
- tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections
- a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger
- the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- a sudden sharp noise
- a sudden breaking
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
- an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound
- any undertaking that is easy to do
- the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back
verb
- To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To trim.
- To change places, tasks, etc.
- To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
- To exchange.
- To swing or whisk.
- To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- To be swung or whisked.
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- To whip or hit with a switch.
- To shift to another circuit.
adj
- Pertaining to skiing backwards.
- Pertaining to riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.
noun
- A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
- A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
- A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
- A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- Synonym of rute.
- A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- A change or exchange.
- One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
- A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.
- A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
verb
- To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
- To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
- To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
- To forcibly direct (something).
- To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).
- To drive away by setting a fire.
- To animate; to give life or spirit to.
- To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
- To set (something, often a building) on fire.
- To set off an explosive in a mine.
- To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
- To feed or serve the fire of.
- To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
- To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).
- To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.
- To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
- To cause an action potential in a cell.
- To cauterize.
adj
noun
- A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
- The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
- Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
- The elements necessary to start a fire.
- Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
- Red coloration in a piece of opal.
- The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
- A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
- Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
- An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire).
- A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
- A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
- An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
- The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
adj
- Angry or irritated.
- Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
- Fitting close, or too close, to the body.
- Under high tension; taut.
- Unyielding or firm.
- Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
- Of a turn, sharp, so that the timeframe for making it is narrow and following it is difficult.
- Lacking holes; difficult to penetrate; waterproof.
- Extraordinarily great or special.
- Not conceding many goals.
- Intimate, close, close-knit.
- A car with understeer, primarily used to describe NASCAR stock cars.
- Of a player, who plays very few hands.
- Intimately friendly.
- Miserly or frugal.
- Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
- Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
- Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.
- Mean; unfair; unkind.
- Scarce, hard to come by.
- Limited or restricted.
adv
verb
- To annoy or bother.
- To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
- To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served.
- To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
- To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
- To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
name
noun
- A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.
- A barren, unproductive and unused area.
- A Tasmanian devil.
- A printer's assistant. Also (India) "a poltergeist that haunts printing works".
- A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
- A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.
- A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.
- A dust devil.
- A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
- An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
- An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.
- The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
- Hell.
- A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
verb
verb
- To annoy or bother.
- To suffer griping pains.
- To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
- To complain; to whine.
noun
- A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
- A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
- The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
- The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
- Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
- An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.
adj
- Quick to become angry or violent.
- Explosive.
- Temporary or ephemeral.
- Variable or erratic.
- Fickle.
- Whose content is lost when the computer is powered down
- Having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.
- Potentially violent.
- Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
noun
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