gins up
Manufactures from nothing
Gins up means to create, generate, or stir up—often with a suggestion of artificiality or manipulation.
Politicians gin up controversy to energize their base.
Media outlets gin up outrage for clicks.
The phrase can also mean simply to produce or get going: We need to gin up some enthusiasm for this project.
Related to the mechanical gin that processes cotton.
- exaggerateOverstate beyond truth
- hypeExaggerated promotional fanfare
- rileAnger through irritation
- inflameIntensify emotion or irritation
- fabricateInvent or manufacture
provoke · incite · amplify · stir · rally the troops · spin doctoring · persuade · agitate · concoct · propaganda · fake news · spin · media framing · convince · frame · simulate · campaigning · energize
action/inaction
gins upcalms down
Becomes less agitated
suppresses · quells · dampens · tamps down · quashes