To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
To stimulate or make more keen.
To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone.
The act of whetting something.
That which whets or sharpens; especially, an appetizer.