Stimulate
['stɪmjʊleɪt] or ['stɪmjə'let]
Definition
(verb.) cause to be alert and energetic; 'Coffee and tea stimulate me'; 'This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate'.
(verb.) act as a stimulant; 'The book stimulated her imagination'; 'This play stimulates'.
(verb.) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; 'These stories shook the community'; 'the civil war shook the country'.
(verb.) stir feelings in; 'stimulate my appetite'; 'excite the audience'; 'stir emotions'.
Editor: Sidney--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory.
(v. t.) To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of (a nerve or an irritable muscle), as by electricity.
Edited by Clare
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Incite, excite, instigate, animate, awaken, provoke, pique, encourage, inspirit, urge, prompt, goad, rouse, arouse, whet, foment, spur, impel, inflame, fire, kindle, stir up, set on, work up.
Typist: Rachel
Examples
- I was not fond of pampering that susceptible vanity of his; but for once, and from motives of expediency, I would e'en soothe and stimulate it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Lavender, which is one part blue and three parts white, would stimulate all three sets of nerves, but with a maximum of stimulation for the blue. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- So kind is his nature, it may stimulate him for once to make the effort. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And wherever the politician through his prestige or the government through its universities can stimulate a revolution in business motives, it should do so. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is not enough to teach the horrors of war and to avoid everything which would stimulate international jealousy and animosity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They were surrounded by creatures ready to stimulate their slightest wishes and to translate their vaguest impulses into action. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In brief, the environment consists of those conditions that promote or hinder, stimulate or inhibit, the characteristic activities of a living being. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Stimulated either by this compliment, or by her burning indignation, that illustrious woman then added, 'Let him meet it if he can! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I stimulated myself into such a heat, and got so out of breath, that I felt as if I had been earning I don't know how much. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The simplicity of the method of generating acetylene gas from this substance by merely bringing it in contact with water has greatly stimulated invention in this field. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The electric furnace, stimulated into higher heat by the dynamo than can be otherwise obtained, has brought about many valuable discoveries, and made great advances in various arts. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The economic revolution has stimulated science by setting problems for solution, by producing greater intellectual respect for mechanical appliances. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The great growth of automobile carriages in the past year has greatly stimulated the output of storage batteries. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Pasteur's interest in these problems of fermentation wa s stimulated by one of the industries of Lille. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- A snowy field stimulates equally all three sets of optic nerves--the red, the green, and the blue. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A truly general aim broadens the outlook; it stimulates one to take more consequences (connections) into account. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Again the sex stimulates us and rewards us by the condescension of its lovely presence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Light stimulates, nourishes, preserves. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Desires for something different, aversion to the given state of things caused by the blocking of successful activity, stimulates the imagination. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- His father was the kind of man who delights in a charming woman: who quotes her, stimulates her, and keeps her perennially charming. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The educator's part in the enterprise of education is to furnish the environment which stimulates responses and directs the learner's course. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Plato had an immediate influence in stimulating m athematical studies, and has been called a maker of mathematicians. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Wright[61] gives us some very stimulating suggestions here. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was a fertile and stimulating thinker, and much of his great influence arose from the comprehensiven ess that led to his celebrated classification of the sciences. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Mersenne was a stimulating and indefatigable correspondent. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- As every day brought her stimulating emotion, so every night yielded her recreating rest. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Now the stimulating class are the things which suggest contrast and relation. Plato. The Republic.
- The invalid sank back upon his cushions, tired out by this long recital, while his nurse poured him out a glass of some stimulating medicine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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