charge up
cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks
• Syn:
agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite
• Ant:
calm (for: agitate)
• Derivationally related forms:
excitant (for: excite), excitement (for: excite), charge (for: charge), turn-on (for: turn on), rousing (for: rouse), agitative (for: agitate)
• Hypernyms:
disturb, upset, trouble
• Hyponyms:
hype up, psych up, bother, pother, electrify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
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