All lay back antonyms

verb lay back

• increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
• grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
• incite — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
• amplify — If you amplify a sound, you make it louder, usually by using electronic equipment.
• intensify — to make intense or more intense.
• prolong — to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
• revive — to activate, set in motion, or take up again; renew: to revive old feuds.
• advance — To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
• forward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
• rise — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
• raise — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
• develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
• win — to finish first in a race, contest, or the like.
• magnify — to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.
• worsen — Make or become worse.
• worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
• anger — Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
• disquiet — lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness.
• distract — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
• inflame — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
• outrage — an act of wanton cruelty or violence; any gross violation of law or decency.
• aggravate — If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
• irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
• agitate — If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
• upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
• provoke — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
• trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
• rouse — to bring out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, fancied security, apathy, depression, etc.: He was roused to action by courageous words.
• ruffle — to beat (a drum) in this manner.
• arouse — If something arouses a particular reaction or attitude in people, it causes them to have that reaction or attitude.
• start — to begin or set out, as on a journey or activity.
• disturb — to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
• move — to pass from one place or position to another.
• continue — If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop.
• ascend — If you ascend a hill or staircase, you go up it.
• free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
• build — If you build something, you make it by joining things together.
• stiffen — to make stiff.
• tighten — make more snug or secure