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Synonyms for Asking for it:
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v.
• annoy- Henpeck ,
- abrade ,
- agitate ,
- ask for it ,
- badger ,
- be at ,
- be on the back of ,
- bedevil ,
- beleaguer ,
- bore ,
- bother ,
- break ,
- bug ,
- burn up ,
- chafe ,
- displease ,
- distress ,
- disturb ,
- egg on ,
- exasperate ,
- fire up ,
- gall ,
- get ,
- gnaw ,
- harass ,
- harry ,
- heat up ,
- hit where one lives ,
- irk ,
- madden ,
- make waves ,
- miff ,
- nag ,
- needle ,
- nettle ,
- nudge ,
- peeve ,
- perturb ,
- pester ,
- plague ,
- provoke ,
- push button ,
- ride ,
- rile ,
- ruffle ,
- t-off ,
- tease ,
- tick off ,
- trouble ,
- turn off ,
- vex ,
- work on ,
- worry .
- aggravate ,
- anger ,
- get under skin ,
- hack ,
- incense ,
- incite ,
- inflame ,
- infuriate ,
- ire ,
- irritate ,
- make blood boil ,
- make see red ,
- steam up ,
- umbrage ,
- whip up .
- Innerve ,
- Intensate ,
- animate ,
- arouse ,
- awaken ,
- bestir ,
- challenge ,
- craze ,
- deepen ,
- enhance ,
- enliven ,
- exhilarate ,
- foment ,
- galvanize ,
- get going ,
- heighten ,
- innervate ,
- instigate ,
- intensify ,
- key up ,
- kindle ,
- magnify ,
- mount ,
- move ,
- pep up ,
- pique ,
- quicken ,
- rally ,
- redouble ,
- rise ,
- startle ,
- stir ,
- trigger ,
- urge ,
- vivify ,
- wake ,
- wake up ,
- waken ,
- whet ,
- work up .
- bell the cat ,
- court danger ,
- court disaster ,
- push one's luck ,
- tempt the gods ,
- try one's hand ,
- try one's luck .
Other relevant words:
- abrase ,
- accelerate ,
- acclivity ,
- acquire ,
- act ,
- activate ,
- actuate ,
- ado ,
- advance ,
- advocate ,
- aegir ,
- affect ,
- affray ,
- aftermath ,
- ail ,
- aim ,
- amaze ,
- amplify ,
- angriness ,
- animise ,
- animize ,
- annoy ,
- annoyance ,
- annoyer ,
- arise ,
- arrest ,
- arrive ,
- ascend ,
- ascending ,
- ascension ,
- ascent ,
- ask for trouble ,
- awake ,
- backing ,
- backwash ,
- baffle ,
- bait ,
- bankrupt ,
- barrack ,
- be active ,
- beat ,
- beat up ,
- beatify ,
- become ,
- befuddle ,
- beget ,
- begin ,
- beset ,
- besiege ,
- bestir oneself ,
- bestride ,
- better ,
- bewilder ,
- bile ,
- bitterness ,
- blaze up ,
- blight ,
- blow up ,
- boost ,
- bore-hole ,
- botheration ,
- brace ,
- brainsick ,
- breach ,
- break away ,
- break dance ,
- break down ,
- break in ,
- break of serve ,
- break off ,
- break out ,
- break up ,
- break-dance ,
- breakage ,
- breaking ,
- breakout ,
- bring ,
- bring forth ,
- bring out ,
- bring up ,
- budge ,
- bugger off ,
- build ,
- build up ,
- bump ,
- burn ,
- burn down ,
- burn off ,
- burst ,
- bust ,
- bustle ,
- button ,
- buzz off ,
- cab ,
- caliber ,
- calibre ,
- call down ,
- call forth ,
- call up ,
- campaign ,
- capture ,
- card ,
- care ,
- cark ,
- catch ,
- cause ,
- cave in ,
- cense ,
- change ,
- charge ,
- charge up ,
- check ,
- check off ,
- cheekiness ,
- cheer ,
- chevvy ,
- chevy ,
- chivvy ,
- chivy ,
- choker ,
- choler ,
- chop ,
- churn up ,
- circumvent ,
- climb ,
- climb on ,
- climb up ,
- cock ,
- cockle ,
- collapse ,
- come ,
- come alive ,
- come apart ,
- come up ,
- commence ,
- common scold ,
- commove ,
- compound ,
- concern ,
- conflagrate ,
- confound ,
- confuse ,
- conjure ,
- conjure up ,
- conk out ,
- contract ,
- convey ,
- coquette ,
- corrade ,
- cost increase ,
- crack ,
- crazy ,
- crucify ,
- crusade ,
- crust ,
- cult ,
- cut ,
- cut up ,
- damp ,
- dampen ,
- delirious ,
- delirium ,
- demented ,
- demote ,
- depend on ,
- depend upon ,
- derange ,
- develop ,
- devil ,
- devolve on ,
- die ,
- difficulty ,
- disclose ,
- discombobulate ,
- discommode ,
- discontinue ,
- discover ,
- disoblige ,
- disorder ,
- displace ,
- dispute ,
- disquiet ,
- disruption ,
- distract ,
- distraint ,
- disturbance ,
- disturbed ,
- divulge ,
- draw ,
- drill ,
- drill hole ,
- drive ,
- drudge ,
- drum up ,
- dullard ,
- dumbfound ,
- dun ,
- eager ,
- eagre ,
- eat at ,
- elicit ,
- emanation ,
- energise ,
- energize ,
- engender ,
- enkindle ,
- enlarge ,
- erode ,
- erupt ,
- escalate ,
- evoke ,
- exacerbate ,
- exaggerate ,
- exalt ,
- exchange ,
- excited ,
- excoriate ,
- exhort ,
- experience ,
- expose ,
- fad ,
- fail ,
- fall apart ,
- fall in ,
- falling out ,
- father ,
- fault ,
- fetch ,
- fight ,
- find ,
- fire ,
- fix ,
- flame up ,
- flare ,
- flick ,
- flirt ,
- flounce ,
- fluff ,
- flummox ,
- flurry ,
- founder ,
- fox ,
- fracture ,
- frantic ,
- fray ,
- frenzy ,
- freshness ,
- fret ,
- frill ,
- frustrate ,
- fuck off ,
- fuddle ,
- furbelow ,
- furor ,
- furore ,
- fury ,
- fuss ,
- gainsay ,
- galvanise ,
- gaolbreak ,
- gap ,
- gauge ,
- generate ,
- geological fault ,
- germ ,
- get around ,
- get at ,
- get cracking ,
- get down ,
- get moving ,
- get on ,
- get out ,
- get rolling ,
- get started ,
- get to ,
- get up ,
- get weaving ,
- ginger up ,
- give ,
- give away ,
- give out ,
- give way ,
- glitch ,
- gnaw at ,
- go ,
- go against ,
- go bad ,
- go up ,
- goad ,
- good luck ,
- gravel ,
- gross out ,
- grow ,
- gun trigger ,
- hack on ,
- hack writer ,
- hacker ,
- happy chance ,
- harebrained ,
- hassle ,
- have ,
- headache ,
- heat ,
- hem in ,
- hemipteran ,
- hemipteron ,
- hen-peck ,
- hike ,
- hinge on ,
- hinge upon ,
- hop on ,
- hot up ,
- huff ,
- huffy ,
- hurt ,
- hustle ,
- hyperbolise ,
- hyperbolize ,
- hysteria ,
- ignite ,
- impertinence ,
- impress ,
- impudence ,
- impulse ,
- incommode ,
- inconvenience ,
- inconvenience oneself ,
- incur ,
- induce ,
- induction ,
- inebriate ,
- infestation ,
- infliction ,
- infract ,
- initiation ,
- insane ,
- insolence ,
- inspire ,
- intercept ,
- interest ,
- intermission ,
- intermit ,
- interrupt ,
- interruption ,
- invigorate ,
- invoke ,
- ira ,
- irritation ,
- itch ,
- jade ,
- jailbreak ,
- jazz up ,
- jog ,
- juice up ,
- jump ,
- jump on ,
- kick downstairs ,
- kick up ,
- let ,
- let on ,
- let out ,
- lift ,
- light ,
- light up ,
- literary hack ,
- liven ,
- liven up ,
- locomote ,
- loosen ,
- machine politician ,
- make ,
- make a motion ,
- mark ,
- mark off ,
- mass meeting ,
- mess up ,
- microbe ,
- minx ,
- mix ,
- mobilise ,
- mobilize ,
- molest ,
- mother ,
- motility ,
- motion ,
- motivate ,
- mount up ,
- mountain ,
- move up ,
- movement ,
- muster ,
- muster up ,
- mystify ,
- nagger ,
- nark ,
- nauseate ,
- neck ruff ,
- nonplus ,
- obtain ,
- occupy ,
- offence ,
- offend ,
- offense ,
- open frame ,
- originate ,
- overdraw ,
- overstate ,
- pain ,
- pain in the ass ,
- pain in the neck ,
- part ,
- pause ,
- pay back ,
- pay off ,
- peck ,
- perk up ,
- perplex ,
- pest ,
- pestilence ,
- pestis ,
- phonograph needle ,
- pleat ,
- plug ,
- poke at ,
- political hack ,
- pose ,
- prance ,
- press ,
- prickteaser ,
- prison-breaking ,
- prisonbreak ,
- problem ,
- proceed ,
- process ,
- procession ,
- prod ,
- produce ,
- progress ,
- prompt ,
- propel ,
- prove ,
- push ,
- put forward ,
- put off ,
- put on ,
- put out ,
- puzzle ,
- rag ,
- rage ,
- raise ,
- raise up ,
- rallying ,
- ramp up ,
- rancor ,
- rancour ,
- ravage ,
- razz ,
- reanimate ,
- rear ,
- rebel ,
- rebound ,
- receive ,
- recess ,
- recommend ,
- recreate ,
- recrudesce ,
- relegate ,
- relocation ,
- renovate ,
- repair ,
- repel ,
- resentment ,
- respite ,
- resurrect ,
- reveal ,
- revive ,
- revivify ,
- revolt ,
- ribbing ,
- riding horse ,
- riffle ,
- rift ,
- ripple ,
- rise up ,
- rising ,
- rising slope ,
- roil ,
- root on ,
- rouse ,
- rub ,
- rub down ,
- rub off ,
- ruff ,
- ruffle up ,
- ruin ,
- rumple ,
- run ,
- rupture ,
- saddle horse ,
- saddle sore ,
- salary increase ,
- sashay ,
- scold ,
- scolder ,
- scour ,
- scram ,
- scratch ,
- screw up ,
- see red ,
- seeing red ,
- sentient ,
- separate ,
- set about ,
- set off ,
- set out ,
- setting ,
- severance ,
- sex ,
- shake ,
- shake up ,
- sharpen ,
- shift ,
- shuffle ,
- sick ,
- sicken ,
- sire ,
- sit ,
- smash ,
- snap off ,
- soften ,
- sore ,
- spark ,
- spark off ,
- speed ,
- speed up ,
- splash ,
- split ,
- split up ,
- spring up ,
- stand up ,
- start ,
- start out ,
- step up ,
- stick ,
- stimulate ,
- stir up ,
- stop ,
- straiten ,
- strike ,
- strut ,
- stupefy ,
- suffer ,
- suffering ,
- summon ,
- surface ,
- surround ,
- suspension ,
- sustain ,
- swagger ,
- switch off ,
- take ,
- take exception ,
- tantalise ,
- tantalize ,
- tap ,
- taunt ,
- taxi ,
- taxicab ,
- tease apart ,
- teaser ,
- teasing ,
- temper ,
- thrill ,
- throw ,
- throw out of kilter ,
- thurify ,
- tick ,
- tickle pink ,
- tidal bore ,
- time out ,
- tire ,
- torment ,
- touch ,
- touch off ,
- transgress ,
- travel ,
- trigger off ,
- trip ,
- trouble oneself ,
- turn on ,
- turn out ,
- twit ,
- unbalanced ,
- uncover ,
- undulate ,
- unhinge ,
- unhinged ,
- unrestrained ,
- unwrap ,
- upgrade ,
- uprise ,
- upset ,
- urge on ,
- urticate ,
- vamp ,
- vamper ,
- vexation ,
- vexer ,
- viewing ,
- violate ,
- wage hike ,
- wage increase ,
- wake island ,
- ward-heeler ,
- wax ,
- weaken ,
- wear ,
- wear away ,
- wear out ,
- whoop ,
- wind up ,
- wiretap ,
- wisconsinite ,
- work ,
- work at ,
- work out ,
- worsen ,
- wrath .
What are the hypernyms for Asking for it?
A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
Other hypernyms:
appeal, entreaty, invocation, petition, plead, request, solicitation, Imploration.
What are the opposite words for asking for it?
Asking for it is a phrase that usually means someone is intentionally inviting trouble or danger. However, there are antonyms for this phrase, which suggest the opposite of asking for trouble. These words are 'avoiding it,' 'cautionary,' 'mindful,' and 'prudent.' These antonyms imply that it's better to be safe than sorry by being careful and cautious in one's actions. Nevertheless, it is essential to understand that perceptions vary, and what one individual deems as "asking for it" might not appear so to another individual, and vice versa. Thus, it's better to be mindful of one's actions and take the necessary precautions to avoid unwanted trouble.
Famous quotes with Asking for it
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Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
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I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.
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I was not great behind the counter. I had a week off without asking for it. Another time, we had a cart go up in flames, and we went out on another cart, which we wrecked by running it into the cart that was on fire.
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