Whet

Verb

 * 1)  To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening.
 * 2)  To stimulate or make more keen.

Thesaurus
accelerate, aculeate, acuminate, aggravate, agitate, animate, antepast, antipasto, aperitif, appetizer, arouse, awaken, bait, barb, beef up, bestir, blow the coals, blow up, bribe, canape, carrot, challenge, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, cultivate, cuspidate, deepen, double, edge, encouragement, enhance, enliven, exacerbate, exaggerate, excite, exhilarate, fan, fan the flame, feed the fire, ferment, file, fillip, fire, foment, foretaste, galvanize, grind, heat, heat up, heighten, hone, hop up, hot up, impassion, incense, incentive, incite, incitement, inducement, inflame, infuse life into, instigate, intensify, interest, invigorate, invitation, jazz up, key up, kindle, lure, magnify, make complex, make sensitive, nettle, oilstone, payment, percentage, persuasive, pick up, pique, point, profit, provocation, provoke, put up to, quicken, rally, ramify, redouble, refine, reinforce, renew, reset, resuscitate, revive, reward, rouse, sensibilize, sensitize, set, set on, sharp, sharpen, sic on, smorgasbord, soup up, spiculate, spur, step up, stimulate, stimulation, stimulative, stimulus, stir, stir the embers, stir up, strap, strengthen, strop, sweetener, sweetening, taper, tickle, triple, wake, waken, whip up, work up

Etymology
From whetten:, from  hwettan:, from, from. Cognate with wetten:,  wetzen:,  dialectal hvæde:.

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: wet
 * Homophones: wet
 * Homophones: wet
 * Homophones: wet

Translations

 * Dutch:, , scherpen
 * German:
 * Russian: точить,


 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: slipa, skärpa, fila


 * Dutch:, scherpen


 * Russian:, обострять, разжигать

Anagrams

 * thew