All quell antonyms
quell
Q q verb quell
- incite — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
- aggravate — If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
- agitate — If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
- annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
- increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- intensify — to make intense or more intense.
- irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- provoke — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
- upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
- worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- worsen — Make or become worse.
- liberate — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- strengthen — to make stronger; give strength to.
- disturb — to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
- perturb — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- succeed — to happen or terminate according to desire; turn out successfully; have the desired result: Our efforts succeeded.
- win — to finish first in a race, contest, or the like.
- build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
- compliment — A compliment is a polite remark that you say to someone to show that you like their appearance, appreciate their qualities, or approve of what they have done.
- encourage — Give support, confidence, or hope to (someone).
- help — 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.
- lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
- praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- release — to lease again.
- start — to begin or set out, as on a journey or activity.
- surrender — to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
- yield — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
- begin — To begin to do something means to start doing it.