n.
1) to arouse, provoke, stir up ~
2) to express, offer ~; to level ~ at
3) to take ~
4) to temper one's ~
5) to subject smb. to ~
6) adverse, biting, damaging, devastating, harsh, hostile, scathing, severe, sharp, sweeping, unsparing, withering ~
7) constructive; fair; mild; nitpicking, petty; sober; valid ~
8) textual ~
9) (the) higher; lower ~ (of the Bible)
10) the barbs of ~