suscitation†, galvanism, stimulation, piquance, piquancy, provocation,
inspiration, calling forth, infection; animation, agitation,
perturbation; subjugation, fascination, intoxication; enravishment†;
entrancement; pressure, tension, high pressure.
unction, impressiveness &c adj.. trail of temper, casus belli
[Lat.]; irritation &c (anger) 900; passion &c (state of excitability)
825; thrill &c (feeling) 821; repression of feeling &c 826;
sensationalism, yellow journalism.
V. excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate,
inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm
the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke;
raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up;
raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle,
apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.
stimulate; exsuscitate†; inspirit; spirit up, stir up, work up,
pique; infuse life into, give new life to; bring new blood, introduce
new blood; quicken; sharpen, whet; work upon &c (incite) 615; hurry on,
give a fillip, put on one's mettle.
fan the fire, fan the flame; blow the coals, stir the embers; fan
into a flame; foster, heat, warm, foment, raise to a fever heat; keep
up, keep the pot boiling; revive, rekindle; rake up, rip up.
stir the feelings, play on the feelings, come home to the
feelings; touch a string, touch a chord, touch the soul, touch the
heart; go to one's heart, penetrate, pierce, go through one, touch to
the quick; possess the soul, pervade the soul, penetrate the soul,
imbrue the soul, absorb the soul, affect the soul, disturb the soul.
absorb, rivet the attention; sink into the mind, sink into the
heart; prey on the mind, distract; intoxicate; overwhelm, overpower;
bouleverser [Fr.], upset, turn one's head.
fascinate; enrapture &c (give pleasure) 829.
agitate, perturb, ruffle, fluster, shake, disturb, startle, shock,
stagger; give one a shock, give one a turn; strike all of a heap; stun,
astound, electrify, galvanize, petrify.
irritate, sting; cut to the heart, cut to the quick; try one's
temper; fool to the top of one's bent, pique; infuriate, madden, make
one's blood boil; lash into fury &c (wrath) 900.
be excited &c adj.; flush up, flare up; catch the infection;
thrill &c (feel) 821; mantle; work oneself up; seethe, boil, simmer,
foam, fume, flame, rage, rave; run mad &c (passion) 825.
Adj. excited &c v.; wrought up, up the qui vive [Fr.], astir,
sparkling; in a quiver &c 821, in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in
a state of excitement; in hysterics; black in the face, overwrought,
tense, taught, on a razor's edge; hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish; all
of a twitter, in a pucker; with quivering lips, with tears in one's
eyes.
flaming; boiling over; ebullient, seething; foaming at the mouth;
fuming, raging, carried away by passion, wild, raving, frantic, mad,
distracted, beside oneself, out of one's wits, ready to burst,
bouleverse†, demoniacal.
lost, eperdu [Fr.], tempest-tossed; haggard; ready to sink.
stung to the quick, up, on one's high ropes.
exciting, absorbing, riveting, distracting &c v.; impressive,
warm, glowing, fervid, swelling, imposing, spirit-stirring, thrilling;
high-wrought; soul-stirring, soul-subduing; heart-stirring, heart-
swelling, heart-thrilling; agonizing &c (painful) 830; telling,
sensational, hysterical; overpowering, overwhelming; more than flesh
and blood can bear; yellow.
piquant &c (pungent) 392; spicy, appetizing, provocative,
provoquant†, tantalizing.
eager to go, anxious to go, chafing at the bit.
Adv. till one is black in the face.
Phr. the heart beating high, the heart going pitapat, the heart leaping
into one's mouth; the blood being up, the blood boiling in one's veins;
the eye glistening, the eyes in a fine frenzy rolling; the head turned;
when the going gets tough, the tough get going [Richard Nixon].