All allay antonyms
al·lay
A a verb allay
- stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- incite — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
- increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- intensify — to make intense or more intense.
- worsen — Make or become worse.
- worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- aggravate — If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
- irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
- agitate — If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
- provoke — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
- stir — to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.