fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.
     stimulate; exsuscitate|; inspirit; spirit up, stir up, work up, pique;
infuse life into, give new life to; bring new blood, introduce new blood; quicken; sharpen, whet; work upon &c. (incite) 615; hurry on, give a fillip, put on one’s mettle.
     fan the fire, fan the flame; blow the coals, stir the embers; fan into
a flame; foster, heat, warm, foment, raise to a fever heat; keep up, keep the pot boiling; revive, rekindle; rake up, rip up.
     stir the feelings, play on the feelings, come home to the feelings;
touch a string, touch a chord, touch the soul, touch the heart; go to one’s heart, penetrate, pierce, go through one, touch to the quick; possess the soul, pervade the soul, penetrate the soul, imbrue the soul, absorb the soul, affect the soul, disturb the soul.
     absorb, rivet the attention; sink into the mind, sink into the heart;
prey on the mind, distract; intoxicate; overwhelm, overpower; bouleverser[Fr], upset, turn one’s head.
     fascinate; enrapture &c. (give pleasure) 829.
     agitate, perturb, ruffle, fluster, shake, disturb, startle, shock,
stagger; give one a shock, give one a turn; strike all of a heap; stun, astound, electrify, galvanize, petrify.
     irritate, sting; cut to the heart, cut to the quick; try one’s temper;
fool to the top of one’s bent, pique; infuriate, madden, make one’s blood boil; lash into fury &c. (wrath) 900.
     be excited &c. adj.; flush up, flare up; catch the infection; thrill
&c. (feel) 821; mantle; work oneself up; seethe, boil, simmer, foam, fume, flame, rage, rave; run mad &c. (passion) 825. 
     Adj. excited &c. v.; wrought up, up the qui vive[Fr], astir,
sparkling; in a quiver &c. 821, in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement; in hysterics; black in the face, overwrought, tense, taught, on a razor’s edge; hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish; all of a twitter, in a pucker; with quivering lips, with tears in one’s eyes.
     flaming; boiling over; ebullient, seething; foaming at the mouth;
fuming, raging, carried away by passion, wild, raving, frantic, mad, distracted, beside oneself, out of one’s wits, ready to burst, bouleverse[obs3], demoniacal.
     lost, eperdu[Fr], tempest-tossed; haggard; ready to sink.
     stung to the quick, up, on one’s high ropes.
     exciting, absorbing, riveting, distracting &c. v.; impressive, warm,
glowing, fervid, swelling, imposing, spirit-stirring, thrilling; high-wrought; soul-stirring, soul-subduing; heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling; agonizing &c. (painful) 830; telling, sensational, hysterical; overpowering, overwhelming; more than flesh and blood can bear; yellow.