stoking, provoking, fomenting, exacerbating, inciting, alienating, aggravate, undermining, arousing, tamp down, destabilizing, fanning, angering, fueling, tarnishing, undercutting, defusing, harming, allaying, stirred, heightening, quelling, suppressing, diluting, polarize, muddying, sparking, clouding, appeasing, damaging, riling, perpetuating, diffusing, vitiating, instigating, complicate, embroiling, igniting, protracting, placating, legitimating, flared, dampening, jeopardizing, embitter, engendering, pandering, tempering, escalate, disrupting, betraying, demonizing, triggering, prejudicing, besmirching, emboldening, sullying, vilifying, ruining, marring, ratcheting, reinforcing, exposing, misguiding, simmering, publicizing, spreading, antagonize, isolating, tainting, prolonging, compromising, mollifying, amplifying, backfire, distorting, obscuring, communalise, manipulating, souring, derailing, exaggerating, discrediting, assuaging, bolstering, marginalize, legitimizing, contaminating, meddling, roil, quashing, reignited, spoiling, enrage, exploiting, estranging, overstretching, avoiding, hurting, overshadowing, entrapping, dividing

arousal, rousing

inflammation