Synonyms of firing (up)

firing (up)

verb

present participle of fire (up)

as in provoking

to rouse to strong feeling or action

the dynamic speaker fired up the audience as no one had previously done

Synonyms & Similar Words

• provoking
• encouraging
• revving (up)
• stimulating
• stirring
• inspiring
• moving
• arousing
• exciting
• sparking
• building a fire under
• motivating
• inciting
• driving
• keying (up)
• whipping (up)
• impassioning
• instigating
• setting off
• inducing
• motiving
• triggering
• pumping up
• piquing
• igniting
• activating
• galvanizing
• kindling
• energizing
• fanning
• animating
• quickening
• bothering
• vitalizing
• inflaming
• abetting
• angering
• fermenting
• fomenting
• enflaming
• teasing
• upsetting
• enraging
• maddening
• taunting
• raising
• getting
• jeering
• annoying
• irritating
• aggravating
• exasperating
• vexing
• galling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• soothing
• calming
• subduing
• tranquilizing
• tranquillizing
• appeasing
• placating
• pacifying
• mollifying