Definition for Whet:

• Sharpen by rubbing on or with stone &c.; stimulate( appetite, stomach, desire); whetstone, shaped stone for tool-sharpening, thing that sharpens the wits. ( N.) sharpening; small quantity taken to create or creating appetite for more; dram. [ old English]

Synonyms for Whet:

• n.

  •
  • chop,
  • crimp,
  • chisel,
  • cut,
  • drill,
  • chip away,
  • chase,
  • file,
  • flail,
  • card.
  •
  • edge,
  • acuminate,
  • sharp.
  •hone (noun)
  • stone,
  • finish.
  •hors d'oeuvre (noun)
  • fore-taste,
  • fore taste.

• v.

  •arouse (verb)
  • heating up,
  • in-flame,
  • wakes up,
  • in flame,
  • firing up,
  • in-cite,
  • in flaming,
  • in-flames,
  • in-flamed,
  • in-flaming,
  • in cites,
  • in-citing,
  • in cite,
  • in-cited,
  • in citing,
  • in cited,
  • in flamed,
  • in-cites.
  •arouse, excite (verb)
  • enhance,
  • animate,
  • waken,
  • incite,
  • quicken,
  • wake,
  • awaken,
  • challenge,
  • increase.
  •contact (verb)
  • whet.
  •excite (verb)
  • dis-composing,
  • ex cited,
  • dis composing,
  • de-lighted,
  • ex-citing,
  • touches off,
  • feeding fire,
  • fed the fire,
  • feeding the fire,
  • in duce,
  • feeds fire,
  • dis-composed,
  • dis compose,
  • ex citing,
  • de-light,
  • ex cites,
  • de light,
  • feeds the fire,
  • in-duce,
  • de-lights,
  • de lighting,
  • fed fire,
  • de lights,
  • ex-cites,
  • feed fire,
  • dis composed,
  • dis composes,
  • de lighted,
  • dis-compose,
  • ex-cited,
  • in-duces,
  • ex cite,
  • in duces,
  • dis-composes,
  • ex-cite,
  • touched off,
  • de-lighting.
  •grind (verb)
  • gives edge to,
  • gave an edge to,
  • gave edge to,
  • give edge to,
  • giving an edge to,
  • gives an edge to,
  • giving edge to.
  •hone (verb)
  • puts a point on,
  • puts point on,
  • puts edge on,
  • putting a point on,
  • put edge on,
  • putting point on,
  • puts an edge on,
  • putting an edge on,
  • making sharp,
  • makes sharp,
  • put point on,
  • putting edge on.
  •intensify (verb)
  • in-crease,
  • Intensated,
  • ex-acerbate,
  • in creasing,
  • ex-acerbates,
  • ex acerbates,
  • ex acerbate,
  • re doubled,
  • re doubles,
  • in crease,
  • pouring it on,
  • Intensating,
  • ex acerbating,
  • pouring on,
  • in creases,
  • poured it on,
  • tones up,
  • re doubling,
  • sets off,
  • re double,
  • poured on,
  • pours on,
  • ex-acerbating,
  • adds fuel,
  • ex acerbated,
  • in-creased,
  • re-doubling,
  • toning up,
  • in-creases,
  • intensates,
  • re-doubles,
  • re-doubled,
  • re-double,
  • ex-acerbated.
  •kindle (verb)
  • ex-asperate,
  • in spiring,
  • in spire,
  • burns up,
  • be-stirred,
  • be stirs,
  • in-spired,
  • be-stir,
  • ex-asperating,
  • keying up,
  • ex asperate,
  • ex asperates,
  • ex-asperates,
  • burnt up,
  • getting smoking,
  • be-stirs,
  • in-spire,
  • in-spires,
  • be stirring,
  • gat smoking,
  • in spired,
  • be stir,
  • ex-asperated,
  • be-stirring,
  • gets smoking,
  • be stirred,
  • in-spiring,
  • got smoking,
  • keys up,
  • ex asperating,
  • in spires,
  • gotten smoking.
  •motivate (verb)
  • in spiriting,
  • dis-posed,
  • in-spiriting,
  • sets astir,
  • setting afoot,
  • pre-determine,
  • in-nerved,
  • pre dispose,
  • pre-disposed,
  • pre disposes,
  • pre disposing,
  • in-nerving,
  • dis posing,
  • in-spirit,
  • in spirited,
  • in-nerve,
  • in nerving,
  • in-spirits,
  • in clines,
  • gives incentive,
  • in nerved,
  • in-clines,
  • prevails upon,
  • prevail up on,
  • pre determines,
  • in nerve,
  • pre-determines,
  • pre-determined,
  • sets afoot,
  • in-nervate,
  • dis posed,
  • innervates,
  • pre determining,
  • pre determine,
  • pre-determining,
  • in-nerves,
  • in spirit,
  • dis-posing,
  • pre-disposing,
  • in-cline,
  • innervated,
  • pre-dispose,
  • dis pose,
  • setting astir,
  • innervating,
  • pre-disposes,
  • pre determined,
  • dis-pose,
  • innerves,
  • giving incentive,
  • in nervate,
  • in cline,
  • in nerves,
  • gave incentive,
  • in-spirited.
  •pique (verb)
  • give business,
  • dis pleasing,
  • dis-pleased,
  • gave a hard time,
  • made waves,
  • gat a rise out of,
  • gat rise out of,
  • in censes,
  • got rise out of,
  • in-cense,
  • getting a rise out of,
  • dis-pleases,
  • dis pleased,
  • in cense,
  • in censed,
  • giving hard time,
  • gives a hard time,
  • gives business,
  • gives hard time,
  • got a rise out of,
  • giving the business,
  • dis-pleasing,
  • gives the business,
  • in-censed,
  • gets a rise out of,
  • in-censing,
  • dis pleases,
  • dis please,
  • gave the business,
  • give hard time,
  • gotten a rise out of,
  • in-censes,
  • getting rise out of,
  • get rise out of,
  • gets rise out of,
  • gave business,
  • giving business,
  • gotten rise out of,
  • making waves,
  • dis-please.
  •provoke (verb)
  • bringing to ones feet,
  • bringing ones feet,
  • pro-duces,
  • pro duce,
  • bring ones feet,
  • brought feet,
  • brought ones feet,
  • bring one feet,
  • bringing to one's feet,
  • pro duces,
  • be-ginning,
  • bringing feet,
  • be-gun,
  • drew forth,
  • Suscitated,
  • bring to ones feet,
  • bring feet,
  • calls forth,
  • suscitates,
  • pro-motes,
  • bringing to one feet,
  • bring to feet,
  • brings feet,
  • bring to one feet,
  • brings to feet,
  • titivates,
  • brings to ones feet,
  • Suscitating,
  • pro moting,
  • brings to one's feet,
  • brought one's feet,
  • brought to ones feet,
  • pro-moting,
  • brought to one feet,
  • bring one's feet,
  • draws forth,
  • bringing one's feet,
  • pro-mote,
  • brings ones feet,
  • be ginning,
  • brought to feet,
  • bringing to feet,
  • be gun,
  • brought one feet,
  • bringing one feet,
  • brought to one's feet,
  • brings to one feet,
  • brings one's feet,
  • brings one feet.
  •rally (verb)
  • re forms,
  • comes order,
  • Re-forming,
  • re forming,
  • re-groups,
  • re-assembles,
  • came together,
  • re new,
  • re-new,
  • re-assembled,
  • re assembling,
  • brings to order,
  • re-stores,
  • re-freshes,
  • re freshes,
  • came to order,
  • counter attacked,
  • brought to order,
  • re grouping,
  • bringing order,
  • counter-attacking,
  • re form,
  • re assembles,
  • re-grouping,
  • re-stored,
  • counter attack,
  • re-forms,
  • re group,
  • bonds together,
  • re stored,
  • re storing,
  • re assemble,
  • bring order,
  • re grouped,
  • re store,
  • re-assembling,
  • re-storing,
  • re-fresh,
  • re-group,
  • comes to order,
  • re stores,
  • coming order,
  • re groups,
  • re formed,
  • bonding together,
  • came order,
  • coming to order,
  • counter attacks,
  • re news,
  • re-news,
  • counter-attacked,
  • come order,
  • re-grouped,
  • brought order,
  • bringing to order,
  • counter attacking,
  • re assembled,
  • brings order.
  •rouse (verb)
  • gat going,
  • asked for it,
  • asking for it,
  • asks for it,
  • gets going,
  • steams up,
  • gotten going.
  •sharpen (verb)
  • makes acute,
  • made acute,
  • making acute.
  •stimulate (verb)
  • dynamizes,
  • builded fire under,
  • building a fire under,
  • gets one started,
  • built a fire under,
  • built fire under,
  • getting started,
  • gat started,
  • build fire under,
  • Commoved,
  • gets one going,
  • got one started,
  • gotten started,
  • dynamized,
  • commoves,
  • builds fire under,
  • builds a fire under,
  • dynamizing,
  • gotten one going,
  • gat one started,
  • builded a fire under,
  • building fire under,
  • gat one going,
  • got one going,
  • getting one started,
  • gets started,
  • gotten one started,
  • getting one going,
  • got started.
  •stir (verb)
  • adjies,
  • adds fuel fire,
  • switches on,
  • adjying,
  • stirring embers,
  • stirs embers,
  • adds fuel to fire,
  • adjied,
  • stirred embers.
  •tempt (verb)
  • turned one head,
  • turn head,
  • de-coying,
  • played to,
  • plays to,
  • turns ones head,
  • making mouth water,
  • de-coys,
  • turning one's head,
  • de-coy,
  • turns one's head,
  • appealing to,
  • turn ones head,
  • co axed,
  • turning head,
  • played up to,
  • de coying,
  • turn one head,
  • co-axing,
  • co-axed,
  • turns one head,
  • in vite,
  • playing to,
  • turning one head,
  • turns head,
  • turned one's head,
  • made mouth water,
  • turning ones head,
  • turned ones head,
  • turned head,
  • makes mouth water,
  • de-coyed,
  • play to,
  • co axing,
  • de coys,
  • playing up to,
  • mousetrapping,
  • plays up to,
  • mousetrapped,
  • de coy,
  • appeals to,
  • de coyed.
  •wake/waken (verb)
  • under-stood,
  • under-standing,
  • jazzes up,
  • jazzing up,
  • under-stands,
  • zips up,
  • under stands,
  • zipping up,
  • under stand,
  • under stood,
  • under standing.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • hone.
  •edge
  • strops,
  • Filed,
  • Stropped,
  • Stropping,
  • strop.
  •excite
  • feed the fire,
  • stir up,
  • stirred up,
  • touch off,
  • stirring up,
  • touching off,
  • stirs up.
  •intensify
  • set off,
  • tone up,
  • pour it on,
  • setting off,
  • pour on,
  • toned up,
  • exacerbate,
  • Intensate.
  •motivate
  • Innerve,
  • give incentive,
  • goosing,
  • goosed,
  • Innerved,
  • set astir,
  • gooses,
  • in spirits,
  • innervate,
  • goose,
  • Innerving,
  • set afoot.
  •sharpen
  • SHARPS,
  • make acute,
  • Sharping,
  • Sharped.

Antonyms for Whet:

• v.

  • arouse, excite
    calm, weaken, decrease, deaden, lose, discourage.
  • make sharp
    dishearten, dull, dampen, blunt.
  • Other antonyms:
    buff, smooth, gloss, burnish, round, polish.

Homophones for Whet:

• wet.

Hyponym for Whet:

• v.

  • contact
    sharpen.
  • perception
    stimulate, excite, stir.