| arouse | | |
| v. (emotion) | 1. arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise | call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses).; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" |
| ~ create, make | make or cause to be or to become.; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" |
| ~ touch a chord, strike a chord | evoke a reaction, response, or emotion.; "this writer strikes a chord with young women"; "The storyteller touched a chord" |
| ~ ask for, invite | increase the likelihood of.; "ask for trouble"; "invite criticism" |
| ~ draw | elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc..; "The President's comments drew sharp criticism from the Republicans"; "The comedian drew a lot of laughter" |
| ~ rekindle | arouse again.; "rekindle hopes"; "rekindle her love" |
| ~ infatuate | arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way.; "His new car has infatuated him"; "love has infatuated her" |
| ~ prick | to cause a sharp emotional pain.; "The thought of her unhappiness pricked his conscience" |
| ~ fire up, stir up, heat, ignite, wake, inflame | arouse or excite feelings and passions.; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred" |
| ~ stimulate, shake up, stir, excite, shake | stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" |
| ~ excite | arouse or elicit a feeling. |
| ~ anger | make angry.; "The news angered him" |
| ~ discomfit, discompose, untune, disconcert, upset | cause to lose one's composure. |
| ~ shame | cause to be ashamed. |
| ~ spite, bruise, injure, wound, offend, hurt | hurt the feelings of.; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego" |
| ~ overwhelm, sweep over, whelm, overpower, overcome, overtake | overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli. |
| ~ interest | excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of. |
| v. (body) | 2. arouse, awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken | stop sleeping.; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" |
| ~ catch some z's, kip, log z's, sleep, slumber | be asleep. |
| ~ change state, turn | undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
| v. (creation) | 3. arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir | summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic.; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain" |
| ~ anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, damn, imprecate, maledict, curse | wish harm upon; invoke evil upon.; "The bad witch cursed the child" |
| ~ bless | give a benediction to.; "The dying man blessed his son" |
| ~ create, make | make or cause to be or to become.; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" |
| ~ call forth, evoke, kick up, provoke | evoke or provoke to appear or occur.; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple" |
| v. (body) | 4. arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate | cause to be alert and energetic.; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate" |
| ~ affect | act physically on; have an effect upon.; "the medicine affects my heart rate" |
| ~ cathect | inject with libidinal energy. |
| ~ reanimate, recreate, revivify, vivify, revive, renovate, animate, quicken, repair | give new life or energy to.; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" |
| ~ reinvigorate, invigorate | impart vigor, strength, or vitality to.; "Exercise is invigorating" |
| ~ liven, liven up, enliven, animate, invigorate | make lively.; "let's liven up this room a bit" |
| v. (body) | 5. arouse, awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken | cause to become awake or conscious.; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." |
| ~ reawaken | awaken once again. |
| ~ bring to, bring back, bring round, bring around | return to consciousness.; "These pictures bring back sad memories" |
| ~ call | rouse somebody from sleep with a call.; "I was called at 5 A.M. this morning" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| v. (motion) | 6. arouse, stir | to begin moving,.; "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| v. (emotion) | 7. arouse, excite, sex, turn on, wind up | stimulate sexually.; "This movie usually arouses the male audience" |
| ~ stimulate, shake up, stir, excite, shake | stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" |
| ~ tempt | try to seduce. |
| heat | | |
| n. (phenomenon) | 1. heat, heat energy | a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature. |
| ~ energy, free energy | (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs.; "energy can take a wide variety of forms" |
| ~ geothermal energy | energy derived from the heat in the interior of the earth. |
| ~ heat of dissociation | the heat required for a fluid substance to break up into simpler constituents. |
| ~ heat of formation | the heat evolved or absorbed during the formation of one mole of a substance from its component elements. |
| ~ heat of solution | the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance is dissolved in a large volume of a solvent. |
| ~ heat of transformation, latent heat | heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure. |
| ~ specific heat | the heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance one degree centigrade. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. heat, high temperature, hotness | the presence of heat. |
| ~ temperature | the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity). |
| ~ calefaction, incalescence | the property of being warming. |
| ~ fieriness, red heat | the heat or the color of fire. |
| ~ torridity | extreme heat. |
| ~ warmness, warmth | the quality of having a moderate degree of heat.; "an agreeable warmth in the house" |
| ~ white heat | the hotness of something heated until it turns white. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. heat, warmth | the sensation caused by heat energy. |
| ~ temperature | the somatic sensation of cold or heat. |
| n. (attribute) | 4. heat, passion, warmth | the trait of being intensely emotional. |
| ~ emotionalism, emotionality | emotional nature or quality. |
| ~ fieriness | a passionate and quick-tempered nature. |
| n. (state) | 5. estrus, heat, oestrus, rut | applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity. |
| ~ physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state | the condition or state of the body or bodily functions. |
| n. (event) | 6. heat | a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race. |
| ~ race | a contest of speed.; "the race is to the swift" |
| n. (artifact) | 7. heat, heating, heating plant, heating system | utility to warm a building.; "the heating system wasn't working"; "they have radiant heating" |
| ~ boiler, steam boiler | sealed vessel where water is converted to steam. |
| ~ building, edifice | a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place.; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" |
| ~ central heating | a heating system in which air or water is heated at a central furnace and sent through the building via vents or pipes and radiators. |
| ~ gas heat | heating system that burns natural gas. |
| ~ panel heating | heating system consisting of wall or floor or baseboard or ceiling panels containing electric conductors or heating pipes. |
| ~ radiator | heater consisting of a series of pipes for circulating steam or hot water to heat rooms or buildings. |
| ~ steam heat, steam heating | a heating system in which steam is generated in boilers and piped to radiators. |
| ~ utility | a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal.; "the price of the house included all utilities" |
| v. (change) | 8. heat, heat up | make hot or hotter.; "the sun heats the oceans"; "heat the water on the stove" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ crispen, toast, crisp | make brown and crisp by heating.; "toast bread"; "crisp potatoes" |
| ~ scald | heat to the boiling point.; "scald the milk" |
| ~ soak | heat a metal prior to working it. |
| ~ calcine | heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces. |
| ~ preheat | heat beforehand.; "Preheat the oven!" |
| ~ overheat | make excessively or undesirably hot.; "The room was overheated" |
| ~ heat up, hot up, heat | gain heat or get hot.; "The room heated up quickly" |
| ~ scorch, sear | make very hot and dry.; "The heat scorched the countryside" |
| ~ broil, bake | heat by a natural force.; "The sun broils the valley in the summer" |
| ~ reheat | heat again.; "Please reheat the food from last night" |
| v. (possession) | 9. heat | provide with heat.; "heat the house" |
| ~ furnish, provide, supply, render | give something useful or necessary to.; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" |
| ~ steam-heat | heat by means of steam. |
| v. (emotion) | 10. fire up, heat, ignite, inflame, stir up, wake | arouse or excite feelings and passions.; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred" |
| ~ arouse, elicit, evoke, provoke, enkindle, kindle, fire, raise | call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses).; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" |
| ~ ferment | work up into agitation or excitement.; "Islam is fermenting Africa" |
| v. (change) | 11. heat, heat up, hot up | gain heat or get hot.; "The room heated up quickly" |
| ~ change state, turn | undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
| ~ overheat | get excessively and undesirably hot.; "The car engines overheated" |
| ~ fry | be excessively hot.; "If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried" |
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