| means | (verb) make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"
create, make |
| means | (verb) cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense; "She gave him a black eye"; "The draft gave me a cold"
give |
| means | (verb) call forth
engender, spawn, breed |
| means | (verb) make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"
get, sire, father, engender, beget, mother, bring forth, generate |
| means | (verb) give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident"
make, do, cause |
| means | (verb) bring into being; "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation"
originate, start, initiate |
| means | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
kindle, elicit, arouse, evoke, raise, provoke, enkindle, fire |
| means | (verb) cause to happen, occur or exist; "This procedure produces a curious effect"; "The new law gave rise to many complaints"; "These chemicals produce a noxious vapor"; "the new President must bring about a change in the health care system"
bring about, produce, give rise |
| means | (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; "I cannot work a miracle"; "wreak havoc"; "bring comments"; "play a joke"; "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area"
bring, wreak, work, play, make for |
| means | (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa"
have, induce, make, get, cause, stimulate |
| means | (verb) give occasion to
occasion |
| means | (verb) bring forth, "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"; "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers"
turn out, bear |
| means | (verb) produce; "The scientists set up a shock wave"
set up, effectuate, effect |
| means | (verb) express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
talk, speak, utter, verbalize, verbalise, mouth |
| means | (verb) create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses"
create, make |
| means | (verb) institute, enact, or establish; "make laws"
make, lay down, establish |
| means | (verb) make by combining materials and parts; "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer"
make, construct, build |
| means | (verb) evoke or provoke to appear or occur; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"
provoke, evoke, kick up, call forth |
| means | (verb) impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students"
inflict, visit, impose, bring down |
| means | (verb) cause to come into a particular state or condition; "Long hard years of on the job training had brought them to their competence"; "bring water to the boiling point"
bring |
| means | (verb) make active or more active; "activate an old file"
activate |
| means | (verb) compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way; "People cannot be made to integrate just by passing a law!"; "Heat makes you sweat"
make |
| means | (verb) wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies; "She won't dish the dirt"
gossip, dish the dirt |
| means | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
gibber, blabber, clack, twaddle, blab, tittle-tattle, prattle, palaver, gabble, piffle, maunder, tattle, chatter, prate |
| means | (verb) stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions"
stimulate, excite, stir |
| means | (verb) provoke or stir up; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people"
instigate, set off, stir up, incite |
| means | (verb) use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect"
talk, speak |
| means | (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
develop, originate, arise, uprise, rise, grow, spring up |
| means | (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
rant, jabber, mouth off, spout, rabbit on, rave |
| means | (verb) exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words"
speak, talk |