What is another word for whet?
657 synonyms found
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Pronunciation:
[ wˈɛt], [ wˈɛt], [ w_ˈɛ_t]
Whet is a word used to describe the sharpening of a blade or the stimulation of someone's appetite or curiosity. This word has a few synonyms that can be used interchangeably in different contexts. To sharpen something, synonyms for whet, include hone, grind, and sharpen. To describe stimulating someone's appetite or curiosity, synonyms for whet include arouse, awaken, stir up, and excite. Using synonyms can enhance the clarity, precision, and effectiveness of the message being conveyed, making it easier for the reader or listener to understand and process the meaning of the message being conveyed.
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Synonyms for Whet:
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- sharp .
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• arouse- firing up ,
- heating up ,
- in cite ,
- in cited ,
- in cites ,
- in citing ,
- in flame ,
- in flamed ,
- in flaming ,
- in-cite ,
- in-cited ,
- in-cites ,
- in-citing ,
- in-flame ,
- in-flamed ,
- in-flames ,
- in-flaming ,
- wakes up .
- whet .
- 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 ,
- ex-citing ,
- 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 ,
- touched off ,
- touches off .
- gave an edge to ,
- gave edge to ,
- give edge to ,
- gives an edge to ,
- gives edge to ,
- giving an edge to ,
- giving edge to .
- makes sharp ,
- making sharp ,
- put edge on ,
- put point on ,
- puts a point on ,
- puts an edge on ,
- puts edge on ,
- puts point on ,
- putting a point on ,
- putting an edge on ,
- putting edge on ,
- putting point on .
- Intensated ,
- Intensating ,
- adds fuel ,
- ex acerbate ,
- ex acerbated ,
- ex acerbates ,
- ex acerbating ,
- ex-acerbate ,
- ex-acerbated ,
- ex-acerbates ,
- ex-acerbating ,
- in crease ,
- in creases ,
- in creasing ,
- in-crease ,
- in-creased ,
- in-creases ,
- intensates ,
- poured it on ,
- poured on ,
- pouring it on ,
- pouring on ,
- pours on ,
- re double ,
- re doubled ,
- re doubles ,
- re doubling ,
- re-double ,
- re-doubled ,
- re-doubles ,
- re-doubling ,
- sets off ,
- tones up ,
- toning up .
- be stir ,
- be stirred ,
- be stirring ,
- be stirs ,
- be-stir ,
- be-stirred ,
- be-stirring ,
- be-stirs ,
- burns up ,
- burnt up ,
- ex asperate ,
- ex asperates ,
- ex asperating ,
- ex-asperate ,
- ex-asperated ,
- ex-asperates ,
- ex-asperating ,
- gat 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 ,
- keying up ,
- keys up .
- dis pose ,
- dis posed ,
- dis posing ,
- dis-pose ,
- dis-posed ,
- dis-posing ,
- gave incentive ,
- gives incentive ,
- giving incentive ,
- in cline ,
- in clines ,
- in nervate ,
- in nerve ,
- in nerved ,
- in nerves ,
- in nerving ,
- in spirit ,
- in spirited ,
- in spiriting ,
- in-cline ,
- in-clines ,
- in-nervate ,
- in-nerve ,
- in-nerved ,
- in-nerves ,
- in-nerving ,
- in-spirit ,
- in-spirited ,
- in-spiriting ,
- in-spirits ,
- innervated ,
- innervates ,
- innervating ,
- innerves ,
- pre determine ,
- pre determined ,
- pre determines ,
- pre determining ,
- pre dispose ,
- pre disposes ,
- pre disposing ,
- pre-determine ,
- pre-determined ,
- pre-determines ,
- pre-determining ,
- pre-dispose ,
- pre-disposed ,
- pre-disposes ,
- pre-disposing ,
- prevail up on ,
- prevails upon ,
- sets afoot ,
- sets astir ,
- setting afoot ,
- setting astir .
- dis please ,
- dis pleased ,
- dis pleases ,
- dis pleasing ,
- dis-please ,
- dis-pleased ,
- dis-pleases ,
- dis-pleasing ,
- gat a rise out of ,
- gat rise out of ,
- gave a hard time ,
- gave business ,
- gave the business ,
- get rise out of ,
- gets a rise out of ,
- gets rise out of ,
- getting a rise out of ,
- getting rise out of ,
- give business ,
- give hard time ,
- gives a hard time ,
- gives business ,
- gives hard time ,
- gives the business ,
- giving business ,
- giving hard time ,
- giving the business ,
- got a rise out of ,
- got rise out of ,
- gotten a rise out of ,
- gotten rise out of ,
- in cense ,
- in censed ,
- in censes ,
- in-cense ,
- in-censed ,
- in-censes ,
- in-censing ,
- made waves ,
- making waves .
- Suscitated ,
- Suscitating ,
- be ginning ,
- be gun ,
- be-ginning ,
- be-gun ,
- bring feet ,
- bring one feet ,
- bring one's feet ,
- bring ones feet ,
- bring to feet ,
- bring to one feet ,
- bring to ones feet ,
- bringing feet ,
- bringing one feet ,
- bringing one's feet ,
- bringing ones feet ,
- bringing to feet ,
- bringing to one feet ,
- bringing to one's feet ,
- bringing to ones feet ,
- brings feet ,
- brings one feet ,
- brings one's feet ,
- brings ones feet ,
- brings to feet ,
- brings to one feet ,
- brings to one's feet ,
- brings to ones feet ,
- brought feet ,
- brought one feet ,
- brought one's feet ,
- brought ones feet ,
- brought to feet ,
- brought to one feet ,
- brought to one's feet ,
- brought to ones feet ,
- calls forth ,
- draws forth ,
- drew forth ,
- pro duce ,
- pro duces ,
- pro moting ,
- pro-duces ,
- pro-mote ,
- pro-motes ,
- pro-moting ,
- suscitates ,
- titivates .
- Re-forming ,
- bonding together ,
- bonds together ,
- bring order ,
- bringing order ,
- bringing to order ,
- brings order ,
- brings to order ,
- brought order ,
- brought to order ,
- came order ,
- came to order ,
- came together ,
- come order ,
- comes order ,
- comes to order ,
- coming order ,
- coming to order ,
- counter attack ,
- counter attacked ,
- counter attacking ,
- counter attacks ,
- counter-attacked ,
- counter-attacking ,
- re assemble ,
- re assembled ,
- re assembles ,
- re assembling ,
- re form ,
- re formed ,
- re forming ,
- re forms ,
- re freshes ,
- re group ,
- re grouped ,
- re grouping ,
- re groups ,
- re new ,
- re news ,
- re store ,
- re stored ,
- re stores ,
- re storing ,
- re-assembled ,
- re-assembles ,
- re-assembling ,
- re-forms ,
- re-fresh ,
- re-freshes ,
- re-group ,
- re-grouped ,
- re-grouping ,
- re-groups ,
- re-new ,
- re-news ,
- re-stored ,
- re-stores ,
- re-storing .
- Commoved ,
- build fire under ,
- builded a fire under ,
- builded fire under ,
- building a fire under ,
- building fire under ,
- builds a fire under ,
- builds fire under ,
- built a fire under ,
- built fire under ,
- commoves ,
- dynamized ,
- dynamizes ,
- dynamizing ,
- gat one going ,
- gat one started ,
- gat started ,
- gets one going ,
- gets one started ,
- gets started ,
- getting one going ,
- getting one started ,
- getting started ,
- got one going ,
- got one started ,
- got started ,
- gotten one going ,
- gotten one started ,
- gotten started .
- adds fuel fire ,
- adds fuel to fire ,
- adjied ,
- adjies ,
- adjying ,
- stirred embers ,
- stirring embers ,
- stirs embers ,
- switches on .
- appealing to ,
- appeals to ,
- co axed ,
- co axing ,
- co-axed ,
- co-axing ,
- de coy ,
- de coyed ,
- de coying ,
- de coys ,
- de-coy ,
- de-coyed ,
- de-coying ,
- de-coys ,
- in vite ,
- made mouth water ,
- makes mouth water ,
- making mouth water ,
- mousetrapped ,
- mousetrapping ,
- play to ,
- played to ,
- played up to ,
- playing to ,
- playing up to ,
- plays to ,
- plays up to ,
- turn head ,
- turn one head ,
- turn ones head ,
- turned head ,
- turned one head ,
- turned one's head ,
- turned ones head ,
- turning head ,
- turning one head ,
- turning one's head ,
- turning ones head ,
- turns head ,
- turns one head ,
- turns one's head ,
- turns ones head .
Other synonyms:
- hone .
Other relevant words:
- Bestirred ,
- Bestirring ,
- Commoving ,
- Gritted ,
- Gritting ,
- Honeying ,
- PSYCH ,
- Perking ,
- Rallied ,
- Sanded ,
- Sanding ,
- Spiriting ,
- Suscitate ,
- Titivated ,
- Titivating ,
- adjy ,
- appeal to ,
- appealed to ,
- arouse ,
- ask for it ,
- bestir ,
- bestirs ,
- bond together ,
- bonded together ,
- bring to one's feet ,
- bring to order ,
- bring together ,
- bringing together ,
- brings together ,
- brought together ,
- build a fire under ,
- burn up ,
- burned up ,
- burning up ,
- call arms ,
- call forth ,
- called forth ,
- calling forth ,
- come to order ,
- come together ,
- comes together ,
- coming together ,
- commove ,
- counter-attack ,
- counter-attacks ,
- counterattacked ,
- counterattacking ,
- draw forth ,
- drawing forth ,
- dynamize ,
- enthuse ,
- enthuses ,
- enthusing ,
- excite ,
- fire up ,
- fires up ,
- foment ,
- get a rise out of ,
- get going ,
- get one going ,
- get one started ,
- get smoking ,
- get started ,
- get under skin ,
- getting going ,
- give an edge to ,
- give rise to ,
- give the business ,
- gives rise to ,
- giving rise to ,
- got going ,
- grind ,
- ground ,
- heat up ,
- heated up ,
- heats up ,
- honied ,
- in flames ,
- intensify ,
- jazzed ,
- jazzing ,
- juiced ,
- juicing ,
- key up ,
- keyed up ,
- kindle ,
- lead on ,
- lead to ,
- leading to ,
- leads on ,
- leads to ,
- led on ,
- led to ,
- made sharp ,
- make mouth water ,
- make sharp ,
- make waves ,
- makes waves ,
- motivate ,
- mousetrap ,
- mousetraps ,
- perked ,
- pique ,
- play up to ,
- provoke ,
- psyching ,
- psychs ,
- put a point on ,
- put an edge on ,
- rally ,
- re-assemble ,
- re-formed ,
- reassemble ,
- reassembled ,
- reassembles ,
- reassembling ,
- regroup ,
- regrouped ,
- regrouping ,
- regroups ,
- rouse ,
- rousing ,
- sand ,
- sands ,
- sending ,
- sharpen ,
- spark ,
- steam up ,
- steamed up ,
- steaming up ,
- stimulate ,
- stir ,
- stir embers ,
- switch on ,
- switched on ,
- switching on ,
- tempt ,
- titivate ,
- turn one's head ,
- turning on ,
- wake up ,
- waked up ,
- waking up ,
- woke up ,
- woken ,
- work up ,
- zip up ,
- zipped up .
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How to use "Whet" in context?
What is the word "whet"?
When someone says "whet," they are advising someone to enquire as to the condition of a blade, especially one that has been dulled.
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