Verb

• S: (v) accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken (move faster) "The car accelerated"
• S: (v) whet, quicken (make keen or more acute) "whet my appetite"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) stimulate, excite, stir (stir feelings in) "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions"
• S: (v) masturbate, wank, fuck off, she-bop, jack off, jerk off (get sexual gratification through self-stimulation)
• S: (v) masturbate (stimulate sexually) "The old man wanted to be masturbated by the prostitute"
• S: (v) horripilate (cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps) "Hitchcock movies horripilate me"
• S: (v) work (provoke or excite) "The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy"
• S: (v) fellate, suck, blow, go down on (provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation)
• S: (v) thrill (cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input) "The men were thrilled by a loud whistle blow"
• S: (v) whet, quicken (make keen or more acute) "whet my appetite"
• S: (v) disgust, gross out, revolt, repel (fill with distaste) "This spoilt food disgusts me"
• sentence frame
• S: (v) quicken, invigorate (give life or energy to) "The cold water invigorated him"
• S: (v) quicken (show signs of life) "the fetus quickened"
• S: (v) animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify (give new life or energy to) "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"