create, make - make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"

touch a chord, strike a chord - evoke a reaction, response, or emotion; "this writer strikes a chord with young women"; "The storyteller touched a chord"

ask for, invite - increase the likelihood of; "ask for trouble"; "invite criticism"

draw - elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.; "The President's comments drew sharp criticism from the Republicans"; "The comedian drew a lot of laughter"

rekindle - arouse again; "rekindle hopes"; "rekindle her love"

infatuate - arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way; "His new car has infatuated him"; "love has infatuated her"

prick - to cause a sharp emotional pain; "The thought of her unhappiness pricked his conscience"

fire up, stir up, wake, heat, ignite, inflame - arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred"

stimulate, stir, shake up, shake, excite - stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"

excite - arouse or elicit a feeling

anger - make angry; "The news angered him"

discomfit, discompose, untune, upset, disconcert - cause to lose one's composure

shame - cause to be ashamed

spite, wound, bruise, injure, offend, hurt - hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised me ego"

overwhelm, sweep over, whelm, overpower, overtake, overcome - overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

interest - excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of

bring up, call down, conjure, conjure up, invoke, call forth, put forward, arouse, evoke, stir, raise - evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"

cause, do, make - give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident"

pick - provoke; "pick a fight or a quarrel"

construe, interpret, see - make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"

anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, damn, imprecate, maledict, curse - wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child"

bless - give a benediction to; "The dying man blessed his son"

create, make - make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"

call forth, evoke, kick up, provoke - call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"

evince, express, show - give expression to; "She showed her disappointment"

reek, smack - have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism"

incriminate, inculpate, imply - suggest that someone is guilty