| VERB | emotion | commove, agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, excite, charge up | cause to be agitated, excited, or roused |
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| contact | commove, agitate, vex, disturb, shake up, stir up, raise up | change the arrangement or position of |
| Meaning | Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Synonyms | agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, excite, charge up | |
| Narrower | bother | make nervous or agitated |
| electrify | excite suddenly and intensely | |
| hype up, psych up | Get excited or stimulated | |
| pother | make upset or troubled | |
| Broader | disturb, upset, trouble | Move deeply |
| Opposite | calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still | make calm or still |
| Spanish | agitar, emocionar, excitar, revolver | |
| Catalan | emocionar, excitar, regirar | |
| Meaning | change the arrangement or position of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | agitate, vex, disturb, shake up, stir up, raise up | |
| Narrower | beat, scramble | Stir vigorously |
| poke | Stir by poking | |
| roil, rile | make turbid by stirring up the sediments of | |
| toss | agitate | |
| Broader | move, displace | Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense |
| Spanish | agitar, excitar, molestar, remover | |
| Catalan | agitar, excitar, molestar, remoure | |
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