Synonyms for Make waves:

• v.

  •annoy (verb)
  • bedevil,
  • abrade,
  • disturb,
  • beleaguer,
  • push button,
  • break,
  • egg on,
  • harass,
  • bore,
  • ruffle,
  • madden,
  • distress,
  • get,
  • t-off,
  • bug,
  • rile,
  • tease,
  • needle,
  • worry,
  • nettle,
  • nudge,
  • plague,
  • vex,
  • harry,
  • ride,
  • bother,
  • chafe,
  • displease,
  • turn off,
  • peeve,
  • badger,
  • pester,
  • agitate,
  • gnaw,
  • Henpeck.
  •complicate (verb)
  • interweave,
  • muck up,
  • mix up,
  • impede,
  • snafu,
  • open can of worms,
  • perplex,
  • clog,
  • muddle,
  • multiply,
  • foul up,
  • screw up,
  • handicap,
  • embroil,
  • fold,
  • entangle,
  • confound,
  • derange,
  • ravel,
  • tangle,
  • snarl up,
  • disarrange,
  • convolute,
  • make intricate,
  • twist,
  • interrelate,
  • Infold,
  • elaborate,
  • obscure,
  • snag,
  • combine,
  • involve,
  • render unintelligible,
  • Interfuse,
  • add fuel to fire,
  • jumble,
  • disorder.
  •effect (verb)
  • fulfill,
  • actuate,
  • unzip,
  • realize,
  • enact,
  • achieve,
  • initiate,
  • implement,
  • produce,
  • draw on,
  • create,
  • conceive,
  • yield,
  • begin,
  • secure,
  • execute,
  • enforce,
  • actualize,
  • make,
  • perform,
  • render,
  • give rise to,
  • generate,
  • bring about,
  • consummate,
  • put across,
  • carry through,
  • do to a t,
  • do one's thing,
  • complete,
  • do the trick,
  • pull it off,
  • sell,
  • do a number,
  • invoke,
  • conclude,
  • get across,
  • turn out,
  • buy,
  • get to,
  • bring off,
  • procure,
  • make it,
  • do the job,
  • cause,
  • turn the trick,
  • effectuate,
  • bring on,
  • induce.
  •exasperate (verb)
  • irritate,
  • aggravate,
  • inflame,
  • anger,
  • annoy,
  • get under one's skin,
  • incense,
  • rankle,
  • roil,
  • enrage,
  • excite,
  • infuriate.
  •fluster (verb)
  • flip,
  • mystify,
  • discombobulate,
  • puzzle,
  • discompose,
  • craze,
  • confuse,
  • nonplus,
  • hassle,
  • heat,
  • flurry,
  • rattle,
  • hurry,
  • disquiet,
  • distract,
  • addle,
  • frustrate,
  • unhinge,
  • spook,
  • bewilder.
  •instigate (verb)
  • move,
  • scheme,
  • persuade,
  • start,
  • abet,
  • whip up,
  • insinuate,
  • turn on,
  • stimulate,
  • add fuel,
  • foment,
  • prompt,
  • plot,
  • plan,
  • suggest,
  • hint,
  • raise,
  • encourage,
  • incite,
  • spur,
  • goad,
  • urge,
  • impel,
  • kindle.
  •irk (verb)
  • discommode,
  • incommode,
  • inconvenience,
  • fret,
  • put out,
  • rasp,
  • eat.
  •perturb (verb)
  • disconcert,
  • alarm,
  • dismay,
  • discountenance.
  •pique (verb)
  • affront,
  • arouse,
  • galvanize,
  • ignite,
  • goose,
  • whet,
  • offend,
  • quicken,
  • grab,
  • wound,
  • prick,
  • motivate,
  • sting,
  • mortify,
  • absorb.
  •provoke (verb)
  • grate,
  • exercise,
  • set,
  • insult.
  •rebel (verb)
  • disobey,
  • overthrow,
  • denounce,
  • riot,
  • secede,
  • boycott,
  • overturn,
  • renounce,
  • combat,
  • strike,
  • remonstrate,
  • break with,
  • opt out,
  • resist,
  • fight,
  • censure,
  • oppose,
  • criticize,
  • defy.
  •revolt (verb)
  • defect,
  • arise.
  •rock the boat (verb)
  • disagree,
  • complain,
  • protest,
  • object.
  •rouse (verb)
  • intensify,
  • rise,
  • enhance,
  • trigger,
  • enliven,
  • deepen,
  • challenge,
  • startle,
  • pep up,
  • rally,
  • magnify,
  • vivify,
  • redouble,
  • exhilarate,
  • heighten,
  • animate,
  • mount,
  • waken,
  • wake,
  • awaken.
  •shake (verb)
  • intimidate,
  • unnerve,
  • weaken,
  • jar,
  • unsettle,
  • undermine,
  • daunt,
  • consternate,
  • appall,
  • frighten,
  • horrify,
  • throw,
  • impair.
  •stir (verb)
  • inspire,
  • vitalize,
  • touch,
  • electrify,
  • drive,
  • rout,
  • spark,
  • Roust,
  • affect,
  • thrill,
  • energize.
  •trouble (verb)
  • strain,
  • afflict,
  • pain,
  • ail,
  • burden,
  • try,
  • grieve,
  • stress,
  • torment,
  • concern,
  • disoblige,
  • sadden.
  •undo (verb)
  • injure,
  • subvert,
  • decimate,
  • destroy,
  • outfox,
  • impoverish,
  • outsmart,
  • crimp,
  • shatter,
  • stymie,
  • wrack,
  • cancel,
  • defeat,
  • negate,
  • outmaneuver,
  • reverse,
  • overreach,
  • abolish,
  • annul,
  • spoil,
  • vitiate,
  • demolish,
  • neutralize,
  • bring down,
  • queer,
  • abrogate,
  • mar,
  • raze,
  • cramp,
  • smash,
  • wipe out,
  • wreck,
  • offset,
  • ruin,
  • skin,
  • abate,
  • annihilate,
  • quash,
  • have.
  •upset (verb)
  • pother,
  • turn,
  • debilitate,
  • incapacitate,
  • pick on,
  • sicken,
  • lay up,
  • floor.
  •upset the applecart (verb)
  • sink,
  • dislocate.

• Other synonyms:

  •complicate
  • inter-relate,
  • interfused,
  • inter-relating,
  • snafued,
  • inter-woven,
  • interrelating,
  • interfusing,
  • snarled up,
  • in fold,
  • interrelated,
  • inter-related,
  • embroiled,
  • interrelates,
  • mucked up.
  •effect
  • carrying through,
  • getting to,
  • gave rise to,
  • gives rise to,
  • made it,
  • gets to,
  • got to,
  • giving rise to.
  •Other relevant words:
  • Intensate,
  • wake up,
  • keyed up,
  • revolt,
  • getting going,
  • work on,
  • unbuilt,
  • give the business,
  • steam up,
  • throw off balance,
  • Innerving,
  • rouse,
  • upset apple cart,
  • try the patience of,
  • fuddle,
  • not conform,
  • Pothered,
  • waking up,
  • rabble-rousing,
  • innervate,
  • rebel,
  • make nervous,
  • ridden,
  • turn against,
  • perturb,
  • miff,
  • be insubordinate,
  • exasperate,
  • queering,
  • Innerved,
  • fires up,
  • mutiny,
  • woken,
  • knock props out,
  • bring to naught,
  • Plaguing,
  • over turn,
  • Bestirring,
  • come out against,
  • take up arms,
  • queered,
  • stir up,
  • fuddled,
  • switched on,
  • fluster,
  • heating,
  • challenge the status quo,
  • causing trouble,
  • burn up,
  • be on the back of,
  • Pothering,
  • make a stink,
  • ask for it,
  • hit where one lives,
  • disturb the balance,
  • not conforming,
  • upset the apple cart,
  • get a rise out of,
  • embitter,
  • Mutinied,
  • heats up,
  • rabble-rouse,
  • unstrung,
  • Indisposing,
  • switching on,
  • feed the fire,
  • throws off balance,
  • provoke,
  • make a fuss,
  • makes waves,
  • unstring,
  • be at,
  • get under skin,
  • throw a curve,
  • in flames,
  • put up to,
  • Fuddling,
  • troubling,
  • run amok,
  • give a bad time,
  • woke up,
  • troubled,
  • stir,
  • get out of line,
  • upset,
  • make a scene,
  • toff,
  • effect,
  • exacerbate,
  • steamed up,
  • burning up,
  • gooses,
  • irk,
  • heated up,
  • ticked off,
  • pique,
  • take arms,
  • stirs up,
  • worked on,
  • upset the applecart,
  • toffs,
  • shake,
  • give a hard time,
  • got going,
  • running amok,
  • goosing,
  • Nettles,
  • indispose,
  • stirring up,
  • Unbuild,
  • stir things up,
  • Gnawing,
  • rises up,
  • adjy,
  • get going,
  • psyching,
  • unstringing,
  • unbuilding,
  • psychs,
  • bestir,
  • Flipping,
  • steaming up,
  • work into lather,
  • impose on,
  • Bestirred,
  • waked up,
  • key up,
  • rising up,
  • work up,
  • instigate,
  • out maneuver,
  • get on nerves,
  • bestirs,
  • complicate,
  • rock the boat,
  • drive up the wall,
  • Innerve,
  • put to,
  • henpecked,
  • rise up,
  • gall,
  • PSYCH,
  • burned up,
  • queers,
  • flip out,
  • tick off,
  • stir embers,
  • trouble,
  • make blood boil,
  • get on one's nerves,
  • working on,
  • rousing,
  • goosed,
  • up set,
  • switch on,
  • set on,
  • cause trouble,
  • needling,
  • heat up,
  • stirred up,
  • undo,
  • insurrect,
  • fire up,
  • fuddles,
  • try one's patience,
  • nag.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • drop out,
  • dissent.

Antonyms for Make waves:

• v.

  • annoy
    delight, mollify, aid, cheer, quiet, comfort, assist, support, appease, reassure, soothe, help, calm, enchant, charm, gratify, make happy, please.
  • complicate
    order, uncomplicate, arrange, explain, facilitate, straighten, disentangle, enlighten, divide, clarify, clear up, ease, untwist, exclude, make simple, untangle, free.
  • effect
    forget, hinder, ignore, lose, miss, neglect, disallow, overlook, veto, end, refuse, stop, close, discourage, prevent, deny, finish, ruin, fail, give up, destroy, halt.
  • exasperate
    alleviate, lull, pacify, gladden, placate, tranquilize, compose.
  • fluster
    explicate, educate, settle, organize.
  • instigate
    conclude, dissuade, put out, deter, repress, suppress, depress.
  • perturb
    assure.
  • pique
    dull, bore, satisfy, compliment, extinguish, misunderstand.
  • provoke
    assuage.
  • rebel
    sanction, agree, obey, approve, comply, make peace, laud, surrender, yield, endorse, give in, praise.
  • revolt
    harmonize, allow, submit, join.
  • rouse
    regress, weaken, dampen, lessen, lower, sleep, disenchant, fall, dishearten, decline, decrease, drop, slump, fix, soften, slow, nap.
  • shake
    embolden, encourage, strengthen.
  • stir
    deaden, leave alone, rest, laze, wait, retard, impede.
  • trouble
    be content, be happy.
  • undo
    establish, restore, build, revive, create, save, grow, permit, repair, uphold, validate, DO, construct, balance, fasten, mend.
  • upset
    hold, cure, make well, place.