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promptsverbpresent tense third-person singular of prompt to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)a misguided pride prompted the family to refuse all offers of help begets, breeds, brings, brings about, brings on, catalyzes, causes, creates, does, draws on, effects, effectuates, engenders, generates, induces, invokes, makes, occasions, produces, results (in), spawns, translates (into), works, yields conduces (to), contributes (to)decides, determinesbegins, establishes, fathers, founds, inaugurates, initiates, innovates, institutes, introduces, launches, pioneers, sets, sets up, startsadvances, cultivates, develops, encourages, forwards, fosters, furthers, nourishes, nurtures, promotesenacts, renders, turns out brings forth, gives rise to impedes, limits, restrictsclamps down (on), cracks down (on), crushes, dampens, puts down, quashes, quells, represses, smothers, squashes, squelches, stifles, subdues, suppressesarrests, checks, controls, curbs, inhibits, reins (in), restrains, retardscans(slang), kills, snuffs (out), stillsabolishes, demolishes, destroys, extinguishes, liquidates, quenches to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of actionprompted the reluctant performer onto the stage with loud cheers and whistles eggs (on), encourages, exhorts, goads, nudges, presses, prods, urges drives, propels, spurs, stimulateshurries, hustles, pushes, rushesadjures, beseeches, implores, importunesblandishes, cajoles, coaxes, soft-soaps, wheedleshigh-pressures, nags, needles, pressuresfoments, incites, instigates, provokes, stirs (up) deters, discourages, dissuadesbrakes, checks, constrains, curbs, holds back, inhibits, restrains |