All moderate antonyms
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M m verb moderate
- intensify β to make intense or more intense.
- aggravate β If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
- develop β When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
- enlarge β Make or become bigger or more extensive.
- expand β explain
- extend β Cause to cover a larger area; make longer or wider.
- grow β to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- incite β to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
- increase β to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- irritate β to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- magnify β to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.
- prolong β to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
- raise β to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
- release β to lease again.
- rise β to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- strengthen β to make stronger; give strength to.
- upset β to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
- agitate β If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
- aid β Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
- allow β If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
- ascend β If you ascend a hill or staircase, you go up it.
- assist β If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
- go up β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- help β to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- permit β to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- provoke β to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
- trouble β to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- worry β to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- egg on β to incite or urge; encourage (usually followed by on).
- free β enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- let go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- liberate β to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- turn over β to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- unleash β to release from or as if from a leash; set loose to pursue or run at will.
noun moderate
- disrupter β to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- fanatic β a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics.
- provocateur β a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator.
- revisionist β an advocate of revision, especially of some political or religious doctrine.
- true believer β a person who has been thoroughly convinced of something.
- agitator β If you describe someone involved in politics as an agitator, you disapprove of them because of the trouble they cause in organizing campaigns and protests.
- zealot β a person who shows zeal.
- dogmatist β a person who asserts his or her opinions in an unduly positive or arrogant manner; a dogmatic person.
- rioter β a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- objector β anything that is visible or tangible and is relatively stable in form.
- inciter β to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
- maverick β Southwestern U.S. an unbranded calf, cow, or steer, especially an unbranded calf that is separated from its mother.
- die hard β If you say that habits or attitudes die hard, you mean that they take a very long time to disappear or change, so that it may not be possible to get rid of them completely.
- sparkplug β to lead, inspire, or animate something or someone.
- left wing β members of a liberal or radical political party, or those favoring extensive political reform.
- fomenter β One who incites or promotes.