N. energy, physical energy, force, power &c. # 157, keenness, intensity,
vigor, strength, elasticity, go, high pressure, fire,
rush,
acrimony,
acritude, causiticity,
virulence,
poignancy, harshness, severity, edge, point,
pungency,
cantharides, seasoning, activity, agitation,
effervescence,
ferment, fermentation,
ebullition,
splutter,
perturbation,
stir,
bustle, voluntary energy,
quicksilver, resolution,
exertion,
excitation V. give -energy,
energize,
stimulate,
kindle, excite,
exert,
sharpen,
intensify, inflame, wind up, strike home, into home, hard home, make an impression
Adj. strong,
energetic, forcible, active, intense, deep-dyed, severe, keen, vivid, sharp, acute,
incisive,
trenchant,
brisk,
rousing,
irritation,
poignant,
virulent,
caustic,
corrosive,
mordant, harsh,
stringent,
double-edged, double-shotted, double-distilled,
drastic, escharotic|,
racy,
potent, radioactive
Adv. strongly, fortiter in re, with telling effect
Phr. the steam is up, vires acquirit eundo, "the race by vigor not by vaunts is won"
N. violence,
inclemency,
vehemence, might,
impetuosity,
boisterousness,
effervescence,
ebullition,
turbulence,
bluster,
uproar,
callithump,
riot, row,
rumpus, le diable a quatre, devil to pay, all the fat in the fire, severity,
ferocity,
rage,
fury,
exacerbation,
exasperation,
malignity, fit,
paroxysm,
orgasm,
climax, aphrodisia, force, brute force,
outrage, coup de main, strain,
shock,
shog,
spasm,
convulsion,
throe,
hysterics, passion, outbreak,
outburst,
debacle,
burst,
bounce,
dissilience, discharge,
volley,
explosion, blow up, blast,
detonation,
rush,
eruption, displosion|,
torrent,
turmoil,
ferment, storm,
tempest, rough weather,
squall,
earthquake,
volcano,
thunderstorm,
berserk,
berserker,
fury,
dragon,
demon,
tiger,
beldame, tisiphone, megaera, alecto,
madcap, wild beast, fire eater
V. be -violent, run high,
ferment,
effervesce,
romp,
rampage, go on a rampage, run wild, run amuck, run riot, break the peace,
rush,
tear, rush headlong, rush foremost, raise a storm, make a riot, rough house*,
riot, storm,
wreak, bear down, ride roughshod, out herod, herod, spread like wildfire,
explode, make a row, kick up a row,
boil, boil over,
fume,
foam, come on like a lion,
bluster,
rage,
roar, fly off the handle, go bananas, go ape, blow one's top, blow one's cool, flip one's lid, hit the ceiling, hit the roof, fly into a rage (anger) 900, break out, fly out, burst out,
bounce,
explode, go off, displode|, fly,
detonate,
thunder, blow up,
crump,
flash,
flare,
burst,
shock, strain, break open, force open, prize open, render violent,
sharpen, stir up,
quicken, excite,
incite,
annoy,
urge,
lash,
stimulate, turn on,
irritate, inflame,
kindle, suscitate|,
foment,
accelerate,
aggravate,
exasperate,
exacerbate,
convulse,
infuriate,
madden, lash into fury, fan the flame, add fuel to the flame, pour oil on the fire, oleum addere camino,
explode, let fly, fly off, discharge,
detonate, set off,
detonize,
fulminate Adj. violent,
vehement, warm, acute, sharp, rough, rude, ungentle,
bluff,
boisterous, wild,
brusque,
abrupt,
waspish,
impetuous,
rampant,
turbulent, disorderly,
blustering,
raging,
troublous,
riotous,
tumultuary,
tumultuous,
obstreperous,
uproarious,
extravagant,
unmitigated,
ravening,
inextinguishable,
tameless,
frenzied,
desperate,
infuriate,
furious,
outrageous,
frantic,
hysteric, in hysterics,
fiery, flaming,
scorching, hot,
red-hot,
ebullient, savage, fierce,
ferocious, fierce as a tiger, excited,
unquelled,
unquenched,
unextinguished, unrepressed,
unbridled,
unruly,
headstrong,
ungovernable,
unappeasable,
immitigable, unmitigable,
uncontrollable,
incontrollable,
insuppressible,
irrepressible, orgastic, orgasmatic, orgasmic,
spasmodic,
convulsive,
explosive,
detonating, volcanic,
meteoric,
stormy Adv. violently,
amain, by storm, by force, by main force, with might and main, tooth and nail, vi et armis, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet, at one fell swoop, with a high hand, through thick and thin, in desperation, with a vengeance, a outrance, a toute outrance,
headlong, head foremost
Phr. furor arma ministrat, "blown with restless violence round about the pendent world"
N. agitation,
stir,
tremor,
shake,
ripple,
jog,
jolt,
jar,
jerk,
shock,
succussion,
trepidation,
quiver,
quaver, dance, jactitation|, quassation|, shuffling 7c, v,
twitter,
flicker,
flutter,
turbulence,
perturbation,
commotion,
turmoil, disquiet,
tumult, tumultuation|,
hubbub,
rout,
bustle,
fuss,
racket,
subsultus,
staggers, megrims,
epilepsy, fits,
carphology,
chorea,
floccillation, the jerks, st. vitus's dance,
tilmus,
spasm,
throe,
throb,
palpitation,
convulsion, disturbance,
chaos,
restlessness,
ferment, fermentation,
ebullition,
effervescence,
hurly-burly, cahotage,
tempest, storm, ground swell, heavy sea,
whirlpool,
vortex,
whirlwind V. be agitated &c,
shake,
tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf,
quiver,
quaver,
quake,
shiver,
twitter,
twire,
writhe,
toss,
shuffle,
tumble,
stagger,
bob,
reel,
sway,
wag,
waggle,
wriggle, wriggle like an eel, dance,
stumble,
shamble,
flounder,
totter,
flounce,
flop,
curvet,
prance,
cavort,
squirm,
throb,
pulsate, beat,
palpitate, go pitapat,
flutter,
flitter,
flicker,
bicker,
bustle,
ferment,
effervesce,
foam,
boil, boil over, bubble up,
simmer, toss about, jump about, jump like a parched pea, shake like an aspen leaf, shake to its center, shake to its foundations, be the sport of the winds and waves, reel to and fro like a drunken man, move from post to pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post, keep between hawk and buzzard,
agitate,
shake,
convulse,
toss,
tumble,
bandy,
wield,
brandish,
flap,
flourish,
whisk,
jerk,
hitch,
jolt,
jog,
joggle,
jostle,
buffet,
hustle,
disturb,
stir, shake up,
churn,
jounce,
wallop,
whip,
vellicate Adj. shaking,
agitated,
tremulous,
desultory, subsultory|, saltatoric, quasative,
shambling,
giddy-paced,
saltatory,
convulsive, unquiet, restless, all of a twitter
Adv. by fits and starts, subsultorily|, per saltum, hop skip and jump, in convulsions, in fits
Phr. tempete dans un verre d'eau, words relating to matter
N. increase of temperature, heating,
calefaction,
tepefaction,
torrefaction, melting, fusion,
liquefaction, burning,
ambustion, combustion, incension|,
accension,
concremation,
cremation,
scorification,
cautery,
cauterization,
ustulation,
calcination,
cracking, refining,
incineration,
cineration,
carbonization,
cupellation,
ignition, inflammation,
adustion, flagration|,
deflagration,
conflagration,
empyrosis,
incendiarism,
arson, auto dafe, boiling,
coction,
ebullition,
estuation, elixation|,
decoction,
ebullioscope,
geyser, distillation (vaporization) 336, furnace,
blanket,
flannel, fur,
wadding, clothing, still,
refinery, fractionating column, fractionating tower, cracking tower,
match,
incendiary,
petroleuse, cauterizer,
caustic, lunar caustic,
alkali,
apozem,
moxa, acid,
aqua fortis, aqua regia,
catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid, radioactivity, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, x-rays,
radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium,
uranium, plutonium, radon, radium,
sunstroke, coup de soleil,
insolation, pottery,
ceramics,
crockery, porcelain, china,
earthenware,
stoneware, pot,
mug, terra cotta, brick,
clinker,
cinder, ash,
scoriae,
embers,
soot,
slag, coke, carbon, charcoal, wood alcohol,
turpentine, tea tree oil,
gasoline,
kerosene, naptha, fuel oil (fuel) 388, wax,
paraffin, residue, tar,
inflammability,
combustibility,
diathermancy,
transcalency,
conduction,
convection,
radiation, radiant heat, heat conductivity,
conductivity, thermal expansion, coefficient of expansion
V. heat, warm,
chafe,
stive,
foment, make hot, sun oneself, sunbathe, go up in flames, burn to the ground (flame) 382, fire, set fire to, set on fire,
kindle,
enkindle, light,
ignite, strike a light, apply the match to, apply the torch to,
rekindle,
relume, fan the flame, add fuel to the flame, poke the fire, stir the fire, blow the fire, make a bonfire of,
melt,
thaw,
fuse,
liquefy, burn, inflame,
roast,
toast,
fry,
grill,
singe,
parch,
bake,
torrefy,
scorch,
brand,
cauterize,
sear, burn in,
corrode,
char,
calcine,
incinerate,
smelt,
scorify, reduce to ashes, burn to a cinder, commit to the flames, consign to the flames,
boil,
digest,
stew,
cook,
seethe,
scald,
parboil,
simmer, do to rags, take fire, catch fire,
blaze Adj. heated,
molten,
sodden, rchauff, heating,
adust,
inflammable,
combustible,
diathermal,
diathermanous, burnt, volcanic, radioactive
N. excitability,
impetuosity,
vehemence,
boisterousness,
turbulence,
impatience,
intolerance, nonendurance,
irritability,
itching,
wincing, disquiet,
disquietude,
restlessness, fidgets,
fidgetiness, agitation,
trepidation,
perturbation,
ruffle,
hurry,
fuss,
flurry,
fluster,
flutter,
pother,
stew,
ferment,
whirl, buck fever,
hurry-skurry,
thrill, state of excitement, fever of excitement, transport, passion, excitement,
flush, heat, fever, heat, fire, flame,
fume, blood boiling,
tumult,
effervescence,
ebullition, boiling over,
whiff,
gust, story,
tempest, scene, breaking out,
burst, fit,
paroxysm,
explosion, outbreak,
outburst,
agony, violence, fierceness,
rage,
fury, furor,
furore,
desperation, madness, distraction,
raving,
delirium,
phrensy,
frenzy,
hysterics,
intoxication, tearing passion, raging passion, anger,
fascination,
infatuation,
fanaticism,
quixotism,
quixotry, tete montee
V. be impatient, not be able to bear, bear ill,
wince,
chafe, champ a bit, be in a stew, be out of all patience,
fidget,
fuss, not have a wink of sleep, toss on one's pillow, lose one's temper, break out, burst out, fly out, go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool,
explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn,
boil, boil over,
foam,
fume,
rage,
rave,
rant,
tear, go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics, run riot, run amuck, battre la campagne, faire le diable a quatre, play the deuce
Adj. excitable, easily excited, in an excitable state,
high-strung,
irritable, impatient,
intolerant,
feverish,
febrile,
hysterical,
delirious,
mad,
moody,
maggoty-headed, unquiet,
mercurial, electric,
galvanic,
hasty,
hurried, restless,
fidgety,
fussy,
chafing,
startlish,
mettlesome,
high-mettled,
skittish,
vehement,
demonstrative, violent, wild,
furious, fierce,
fiery, hot- headed,
madcap,
overzealous,
enthusiastic, impassioned,
fanatical,
rabid,
rampant,
clamorous,
uproarious,
turbulent,
tempestuous,
tumultuary,
boisterous, impulsive,
impetuous,
passionate,
uncontrolled,
uncontrollable,
ungovernable,
irrepressible,
stanchless,
inextinguishable, burning,
simmering, volcanic, ready to burst forth, volatile, excited, exciting
Int. pish,
pshaw, phr, noli me tangere, "filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd", maggiore fretta minore atto
N. resentment, displeasure,
animosity, anger, wrath,
indignation,
exasperation, bitter resentment, wrathful indignation,
pique,
umbrage,
huff,
miff,
soreness,
dudgeon,
acerbity,
virulence, bitterness,
acrimony,
asperity,
spleen, gall,
heart-burning, heart- swelling,
rankling, ill humor, bad humor, ill temper, bad temper,
irascibility, ill blood,
revenge, excitement,
irritation,
warmth,
bile,
choler,
ire,
fume,
pucker,
dander,
ferment,
ebullition, towering passion,
acharnement, angry mood, taking,
pet,
tiff, passion, fit, tantrums,
burst,
explosion,
paroxysm, storm,
rage,
fury,
desperation, violence, fire and fury, vials of wrath, gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words,
scowl,
sulks,
affront,
provocation,
offense, indignity,
grudge, crow to pluck, bone to pick, sore subject, casus belli, ill turn,
outrage,
furies,
eumenides,
buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the knuckles
V. resent, take amiss, take ill, take to heart, take offense, take umbrage, take huff, take exception, take in ill part, take in bad part, take in dudgeon, ne pas entendre raillerie, breathe revenge, cut up rough, fly into a rage, fall into a rage, get into a rage, fly into a passion, bridle up, bristle up, froth up, fire up, flare up, open the vials of one's wrath, pour out the vials of one's wrath,
pout, knit the brow,
frown,
scowl, lower,
snarl,
growl,
gnarl,
gnash,
snap,
redden, color, look black, look black as thunder, look daggers, bite one's thumb, show one's teeth, grind one's teeth, champ the bit, champ at the bit,
chafe,
mantle,
fume,
kindle, fly out, take fire,
boil, boil over, boil with indignation, boil with rage,
rage, storm,
foam, vent one's rage, vent one's spleen, lose one's temper, stand on one's hind legs, stamp the foot, stamp with rage, quiver with rage, swell with rage, foam with rage, burst with anger, raise cain, have a fling at, bear malice, cause anger, raise anger,
affront,
offend, give offense, give umbrage, anger, hurt the feelings,
insult,
discompose,
fret,
ruffle,
nettle,
huff,
pique, excite,
irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile,
sting, sting to the quick,
rile,
provoke,
chafe, wound, incense, inflame,
enrage,
aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach,
envenom,
embitter,
exasperate,
infuriate, kindle wrath, stick in one's gizzard, rankle &e, 919, hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw, put out of countenance, put out of humor, put one's monkey up, put one's back up, raise one's gorge, raise one's dander, raise one's choler, work up into a passion, make one's blood boil, make the ears tingle, throw, into a ferment,
madden, drive one mad, lash into fury, lash into madness, fool to the top of one's bent, set by the ears, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears
Adj. angry, wrath,
irate,
ireful, wrathful, cross,
achillean,
sulky,
&c. 901a, bitter,
virulent, acrimonious &c. (discourteous), violent, warm, burning, boiling, boiling over,
fuming,
raging,
foaming, foaming at the mouth, convulsed with rage,
offended,
waxy, acharne, wrought, worked up,
indignant,
hurt,
sore, set against, fierce, wild,
rageful,
furious, mad with rage,
fiery,
infuriate,
rabid, savage, relentless, flushed with anger, flushed with rage, in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way, on one's high ropes, up in arms, in high dudgeon
Adv. angrily, in the height of passion, in the heat of passion, in the heat of the moment
Int. tantaene animis coelestibus irae, marry come up,
zounds,
'sdeath, phr, one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up, fervens difficili bile jecur, the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire, the blood rising, the blood boiling, haeret lateri lethalis arundo, "beware the fury of a patient man", furor arma ministrat, ira furor brevis est, quem jupiter vult perdere dementat prius, "what, drunk with choler?"