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All quell antonyms

quell
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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.
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