What are the opposite words for put out?
The phrase "put out" usually refers to extinguishing a fire or light, but it can also mean to inconvenience, irritate, or upset someone. Antonyms for the phrasal verb include kindle, ignite, light, spark, and ignite. These words all refer to starting a fire, whereas the word 'put out' denotes extinguishing one. Other antonyms for "put out" that convey a positive meaning include please, delight, gratify, satisfy, and elate. These words connote satisfaction or pleasure, as opposed to the unhappiness or inconvenience that "put out" can imply. Using antonyms for "put out" can help to express a positive emotion and avoid negative connotations.
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excite
- stir up,
- stirred up,
- de light,
- de lighted,
- de lighting,
- de lights,
- de-light,
- de-lighted,
- de-lighting,
- de-lights,
- dis compose,
- dis composed,
- dis composes,
- dis composing,
- dis-compose,
- dis-composed,
- dis-composes,
- dis-composing,
- ex cite,
- ex cited,
- ex cites,
- ex citing,
- ex-cite,
- ex-cited,
- ex-cites,
- fed fire,
- fed the fire,
- feed fire,
- feeding fire,
- feeding the fire,
- feeds fire,
- feeds the fire,
- in duce,
- in duces,
- in-duce,
- in-duces,
- stirring up,
- stirs up,
- touched off,
- touches off,
- touching off.
-
light
- deplane,
- detrain,
- enkindle,
- set down,
- switch on,
- touch down,
- Lights,
- Roosted,
- Roosting,
- sit down,
- setting down,
- sets down,
- settled down,
- settling down,
- settles down,
- detraining,
- deplanes,
- detrains,
- deplaning,
- deplaned,
- strike a match,
- de plane,
- de planed,
- de planes,
- de planing,
- de train,
- de trained,
- de training,
- de trains,
- de-plane,
- de-planed,
- de-planes,
- de-planing,
- de-train,
- de-trained,
- de-training,
- de-trains,
- detrained,
- dis embark,
- dis embarked,
- dis embarking,
- dis embarks,
- dis-embark,
- dis-embarked,
- dis-embarking,
- dis-embarks,
- flew down,
- flies down,
- fly down,
- flying down,
- furnishes with light,
- furnishing with light,
- made bright,
- made visible,
- make bright,
- make visible,
- makes bright,
- makes visible,
- making bright,
- making visible,
- re sting,
- re-sting,
- sat down,
- sate down,
- sits down,
- strike match,
- strikes a match,
- strikes match,
- striking a match,
- striking match,
- strook a match,
- strook match,
- struck a match,
- struck match,
- switched on,
- switches on,
- switching on,
- touched down,
- touching down.
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heat
- frizzle,
- oxidate,
- reheat,
- Oxidated,
- Oxidating,
- Smelted,
- Smelting,
- Tepefied,
- Tepefying,
- Tepefy,
- warm up,
- Sunned,
- Sunning,
- warmed up,
- warms up,
- enflamed,
- frizzling,
- enflames,
- enflame,
- smelts,
- frizzled,
- calorified,
- calorifies,
- calorify,
- calorifying,
- enflaming,
- frizzles,
- grew hot,
- grow hot,
- grow warm,
- growing hot,
- grows warm,
- oxidates,
- raise temperature,
- raise the temperature,
- raised temperature,
- raised the temperature,
- raises temperature,
- raises the temperature,
- raising temperature,
- raising the temperature,
- re heat,
- re heats,
- re-heat,
- re-heated,
- re-heating,
- re-heats,
- reheating,
- reheats.
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ignite
- catch fire,
- ignited,
- take fire,
- touch off,
- start up,
- burst into flames,
- burst in to flames,
- bursted in to flames,
- bursted into flames,
- bursting in to flames,
- bursting into flames,
- bursts in to flames,
- bursts into flames,
- catches fire,
- catching fire,
- caught fire,
- put match to,
- started up,
- starting up,
- starts up,
- takes fire,
- taking fire,
- took fire.
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burn
- calcine,
- conflagrate,
- flame,
- heating,
- smoking,
- smoulder,
- smouldering,
- Calcining,
- Reamed,
- Smouldered,
- torched,
- torching,
- calcined,
- reduced to ashes,
- be passionate,
- breathe fire,
- over reach,
- am ablaze,
- am angry,
- am aroused,
- am passionate,
- am stirred up,
- are ablaze,
- are angry,
- are aroused,
- are inflamed,
- are passionate,
- are stirred up,
- art ablaze,
- art angry,
- art aroused,
- art inflamed,
- art passionate,
- art stirred up,
- be ablaze,
- be angry,
- be aroused,
- be inflamed,
- be stirred up,
- being ablaze,
- being angry,
- being aroused,
- being inflamed,
- being passionate,
- being stirred up,
- breathed fire,
- breathes fire,
- breathing fire,
- calcines,
- co oked,
- co oking,
- co-oked,
- co-oking,
- conflagrated,
- conflagrates,
- conflagrating,
- de fraud,
- de frauds,
- de sire,
- de sired,
- de sires,
- de siring,
- de-fraud,
- de-frauds,
- de-sire,
- de-sired,
- de-sires,
- de-siring,
- is ablaze,
- is angry,
- is aroused,
- is inflamed,
- is passionate,
- is stirred up,
- over reached,
- over reaches,
- over reaching,
- over-reach,
- over-reaches,
- over-reaching,
- re kindle,
- re kindled,
- re kindles,
- re-kindle,
- re-kindled,
- re-kindles,
- re-kindling,
- reduce ashes,
- reduce to ashes,
- reduced ashes,
- reduces ashes,
- reduces to ashes,
- reducing ashes,
- reducing to ashes,
- set a match to,
- set match to,
- sets a match to,
- sets match to,
- setting a match to,
- setting match to,
- smoulders,
- was ablaze,
- was angry,
- was aroused,
- was inflamed,
- was passionate,
- was stirred up,
- wast ablaze,
- wast angry,
- wast aroused,
- wast inflamed,
- wast passionate,
- wast stirred up,
- were ablaze,
- were angry,
- were aroused,
- were passionate,
- were stirred up,
- wert ablaze,
- wert angry,
- wert aroused,
- wert inflamed,
- wert passionate,
- wert stirred up.
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fire
- set ablaze,
- set aflame,
- set on fire,
- set fire to,
- put a match to,
- puts a match to,
- puts match to,
- putting a match to,
- putting match to,
- set alight,
- sets ablaze,
- sets aflame,
- sets fire,
- sets fire to,
- sets on fire,
- setting ablaze,
- setting aflame,
- setting alight,
- setting fire,
- setting fire to,
- setting on fire,
- start a fire,
- start fire,
- started a fire,
- started fire,
- starting a fire,
- starting fire,
- starts a fire,
- starts fire.
- gall
- glow
- lick
- rouse
- set on fire
- arouse
- flame
- illuminate
-
instigate
- rabble-rousing,
- set on,
- put to,
- steam up,
- steamed up,
- put up to,
- adds fuel,
- in sinuate,
- in sinuated,
- in sinuates,
- in sinuating,
- in-sinuate,
- in-sinuates,
- in-sinuating,
- make waves,
- makes waves,
- making waves,
- puts to,
- puts up to,
- putting to,
- putting up to,
- rabble rouse,
- rabble roused,
- rabble rouses,
- rabble rousing,
- rabble-rouse,
- rabble-roused,
- rabble-rouses,
- rabblerouse,
- rabbleroused,
- rabblerousing,
- sets on,
- setting on,
- steaming up.
-
kindle
- bestir,
- burn up,
- Bestirred,
- Bestirring,
- bestirs,
- burned up,
- keyed up,
- be stir,
- be stirred,
- be stirring,
- be stirs,
- be-stir,
- be-stirred,
- be-stirring,
- be-stirs,
- burning up,
- burns up,
- burnt up,
- gat smoking,
- get smoking,
- gets smoking,
- getting smoking,
- got smoking,
- gotten smoking,
- in spire,
- in spired,
- in spires,
- in spiring,
- in-spire,
- in-spired,
- in-spires,
- in-spiring,
- key up,
- keying up,
- keys up,
- set fire.
- stir
- excite, entice
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be on fire; set on fire
- burn.
- inspire; upset
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cause to burn
- fire.
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burn, radiate
- glow.
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make or become hot
- heat.
- make light
- reduce to ashes
- influence, provoke
- start a fire
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play over with fire
- lick.
- start, evoke; stimulate
- upset, irritate; inconvenience
- stimulate, excite
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incite, stimulate
- stir.
- incite, excite
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Other relevant words
- burn,
- appease,
- assuage,
- bathe,
- bring around,
- bring back,
- bring round,
- bring to,
- cauterize,
- conciliate,
- cremate,
- dally,
- dawdle,
- dillydally,
- disarm,
- eternalize,
- footle,
- gladden,
- gratify,
- ignite,
- illume,
- illuminate,
- illumine,
- inflame,
- irradiate,
- kick around,
- kindle,
- laze,
- loaf,
- loll,
- mollify,
- pacify,
- perpetuate,
- placate,
- please,
- propitiate,
- rejoice,
- satisfy,
- scorch,
- singe,
- Emblaze,
- veg out,
- blaze,
- char,
- tranquil.
- Other antonyms
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