affect, bear upon, impact, bear on, touch on, touch - have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"

invigorate, quicken - give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him"

innervate - stimulate to action; "innervate a muscle or a nerve"

irritate - excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus; "irritate the glands of a leaf"

decide - cause to decide; "This new development finally decided me!"

persuade - cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm; "You can't persuade me to buy this ugly vase!"

bring - induce or persuade; "The confession of one of the accused brought the others to admit to the crime as well"

solicit - incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination; "He was accused of soliciting his colleagues to destroy the documents"

encourage - spur on; "His financial success encouraged him to look for a wife"

let - actively cause something to happen; "I let it be known that I was not interested"

lead - cause to undertake a certain action; "Her greed led her to forge the checks"

instigate, prompt, inspire - serve as the inciting cause of; "She prompted me to call my relatives"

suborn - induce to commit perjury or give false testimony; "The President tried to suborn false witnesses"

compel, obligate, oblige - force or compel somebody to do something; "We compel all students to fill out this form"

arouse, elicit, evoke, provoke, enkindle, kindle, fire, raise - call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"

fuel - stimulate; "fuel the debate on creationism"

sex, wind up, turn on, excite, arouse - stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience"

affright, fright, frighten, scare - cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"

thrill, tickle, vibrate - feel sudden intense sensation or emotion; "he was thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine"

invite, tempt - give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting; "the window displays tempted the shoppers"

elate, intoxicate, uplift, lift up, pick up - fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits"

animate, enliven, inspire, invigorate, exalt - heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"

titillate - excite pleasurably or erotically; "A titillating story appeared in the usually conservative magazine"

affect - act physically on; have an effect upon

cathect - inject with libidinal energy

reanimate, recreate, revivify, vivify, revive, renovate, animate, quicken, repair - give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"

reinvigorate, invigorate - impart vigor, strength, or vitality to; "Exercise is invigorating"

liven, liven up, enliven, invigorate, animate - make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit"

bring about, effect, effectuate, set up - produce; "The scientists set up a shockwave"

jack off, jerk off, she-bop, wank, masturbate, fuck off - get sexual gratification through self-stimulation

masturbate - stimulate sexually; "The old man wanted to be masturbated by the prostitute"

sensitise, sensitize - cause to sense; make sensitive; "She sensitized me with respect to gender differences in this traditional male-dominated society"; "My tongue became sensitized to good wine"

horripilate - cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps; "Hitchcock movies horripilate me"

work - provoke or excite; "The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy"

fellate, go down on, blow - provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation

thrill - cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input; "The men were thrilled by a loud whistle blow"

whet, quicken - make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite"

disgust, gross out, revolt, repel - fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me"

entice, lure, tempt - provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation"

rejuvenate - cause (a stream or river) to erode, as by an uplift of the land

jog - stimulate to remember; "jog my memory"

instigate, incite, stir up, set off - provoke or stir up; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people"

challenge - issue a challenge to; "Fischer challenged Spassky to a match"

agitate, foment, stir up - try to stir up public opinion