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- verb To encourage someone, or an animal, to
attack someone.
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synonyms (118)
Words with the same meaning
- abet
- aching for
- aggravate
- agitate
- alienate
- ambush
- arouse
- assail
- assault
- attack
- bed on
- bent on
- blitz
- blow the coals
- bottom on
- build on
- bushwhack
- come at
- come between
- come down on
- crack down on
- crazy to
- dead set on
- decided upon
- descend on
- descend upon
- desirous of
- determined upon
- disaffect
- disunite
- divide
- dying for
- dying to
- estrange
- excite
- fain of
- fall on
- fall upon
- fan
- fan the flame
- feed the fire
- ferment
- fire
- fixed upon
- foment
- fond of
- found on
- gang up on
- go at
- go for
- ground on
- harry
- have at
- heat
- heat up
- hell-bent on
- hit
- hit like lightning
- impassion
- incense
- incite
- inclined toward
- inflame
- instigate
- intent upon
- irritate
- itching for
- jump
- keen on
- land on
- lay at
- lay hands on
- lay into
- leaning toward
- light into
- light the fuse
- mad on
- make trouble
- mug
- nettle
- partial to
- pique
- pit against
- pitch into
- pounce upon
- pound
- provoke
- put up to
- raise
- rally
- resolved upon
- sail into
- separate
- set
- set against
- set at odds
- set at variance
- set upon
- settled upon
- sic on
- sot on
- sow dissension
- spoiling for
- stir the embers
- stir up
- stir up trouble
- strike
- surprise
- swoop down on
- take the offensive
- tickle
- undergird
- underlie
- wade into
- whet
- whip up
- wild to
- work up
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