curbing, pacifying, defusing, quieting, taming, tamp down, countering, sparking, spurring, suppressing, blunting, assuaging, squelching, subduing, thwarting, fueling, allaying, tempering, stanching, alleviating, stoking, dampening, combating, dispelling, squashing, overcoming, provoking, neutralizing, fomenting, reining, quashing, resolving, bolstering, averting, eradicating, calming, ousting, halting, inflaming, preventing, easing, relieving, snuffing, silencing, engendering, mollifying, ridding, igniting, forestalling, controlling, derailing, reviving, banishing, triggering, boosting, placating, counteracting, foiling, stabilizing, avoiding, deterring, destabilizing, lessening, toppling, smoothing, stem, douse, diffusing, tamping, subsided, repulsing, fanning, stave off, curtailing, denting, ameliorating, persisting, instigating, vanquishing, dispersing, undermining, crackdown, eviction, expulsion, extermination, vengeance, bringing, captor, conquering, demolition, extirpation, imposition, liquidation, outrage, pacification, retribution, slash, slayer, stab, subjugation, warlord, bouncy, aphoristic, bold, bolder, cautious, chastening, crisper, dastard, edged, embellished, incisive, inventive, invigorating, invincible, jest, jumpy, lurking, maddening, manlier, meditative

bar, prevention

crushing, stifling, suppression