Triggers Synonyms and Antonyms

Cause to happen
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. causes
  2. brings
  3. stirs
  4. secures
  5. occasions
  6. makes
  7. induces
  8. generates
  9. effectuates
  10. effects
Antonyms:
  1. stops
  2. halts
  3. checks
  4. blocks
An act that sets in motion some course of events
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. initiations
  2. inductions
Something that incites especially a violent response
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. goads
  2. stimuli
  3. provocations
  4. incitements

Triggers Sentence Examples

  • It triggers your house's fire system if it detects it has caught on fire.

  • In the case of a muscle cell, depolarisation triggers muscle contraction.

  • Sunlight triggers oxidative damage in the eye, which in turn can cause macular degeneration.

  • Other triggers cab be changes in host defenses e.g. friction during sexual intercourse inflaming the mucous membranes.

  • Now it comes to pass that the factory is unwilling to put triggers like that on guns to be sold over-the-counter.

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