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  • 2heat — Synonyms and related words: John Law, Le Mans, a transient madness, abandon, activate, agitate, agitation, air race, anger, angriness, animate, annoy, ardency, ardor, arousal, arouse, automobile race, awake, awaken, bake, barbecue, baste, bicycle …

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  • 3foment — Synonyms and related words: abate, abet, advance, agitate, agitation, allay, alleviate, anesthetize, annoy, appease, arouse, assuage, awake, awaken, benumb, blow the coals, blow up, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bustle, call forth,… …

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  • 9Rough for Radio II — is a radio play by Samuel Beckett. It was written in French in 1961 as Pochade radiophonique and published in Minuit 16, November 1975. Beckett translated the work into English shortly before its broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 13th April 1976.… …

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  • 10stir — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. move, budge, circulate; agitate, incite, arouse; animate, stimulate, provoke. See agitation, motion, excitement. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. agitation, tumult, bustle; see excitement . v. 1. [To… …

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