INSTIGATING Synonyms

• creating or arousing excitement

• stimulating interest and discussion

• a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something

• imparting strength and vitality

• persuasion formulated as a suggestion

• a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken)

• causing or tending to cause anger or resentment

• a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something

• rousing or quickening activity or the senses

• that stimulates

• making lively and cheerful

• a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something

• the act of earnestly supporting or encouraging

• insistent solicitation and entreaty

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• stop sleeping

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

• cause to be alert and energetic

• cause to become awake or conscious

• to begin moving

• to evoke sexual feelings

• try to stir up public opinion

• bathe with warm water or medicated lotions

• cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat

• start to burn or burst into flames

• arouse or excite feelings and passions

• start or maintain a fire in

• give an incentive for action

• provoke or stir up

• urge on; cause to act

• give an incentive for action

• provoke or stir up

• urge on; cause to act

• belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings

• endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life

• endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness

• heighten or intensify

• give lifelike qualities to

• make lively

• give new life or energy to

• contribute to the progress or growth of

• inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to

• spur on

• urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

• cause to move forward with force

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• evoke or provoke to appear or occur

• provide the needed stimulus for

• annoy continually or chronically

• a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something

• any sharply pointed projection

• tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers

• a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward

• a railway line connected to a trunk line

• incite or stimulate

• give heart or courage to

• strike with a spur

• goad with spurs

• equip with spurs

• act as a stimulant

• cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner

• stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of

• cause to be alert and energetic

• cause to occur rapidly

• stir feelings in

• provide the needed stimulus for