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 |