Synonyms of catalyzing

catalyzing

verb

present participle of catalyze

as in creating

to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)

a reinstitution of the draft would catalyze protests around the country

Synonyms & Similar Words

• creating
• causing
• generating
• bringing
• prompting
• producing
• doing
• spawning
• inducing
• effecting
• working
• yielding
• making
• invoking
• effectuating
• engendering
• bringing about
• resulting (in)
• promoting
• occasioning
• giving rise to
• encouraging
• translating (into)
• drawing on
• breeding
• introducing
• initiating
• begetting
• determining
• bringing on
• bringing forth
• establishing
• fostering
• contributing (to)
• launching
• developing
• inaugurating
• pioneering
• instituting
• founding
• furthering
• enacting
• cultivating
• deciding
• beginning
• starting
• advancing
• nurturing
• rendering
• forwarding
• setting
• innovating
• conducing (to)
• setting up
• nourishing
• fathering
• turning out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• limiting
• restricting
• impeding
• suppressing
• controlling
• inhibiting
• crushing
• repressing
• stifling
• quashing
• curbing
• retarding
• quelling
• subduing
• restraining
• dampening
• arresting
• checking
• smothering
• killing
• putting down
• destroying
• squelching
• squashing
• quenching
• abolishing
• extinguishing
• cracking down (on)
• liquidating
• clamping down (on)
• demolishing
• reining (in)
• canning
• stilling
• snuffing (out)