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Stimulate   /stˈɪmjəlˌeɪt/   Listen
Stimulate

verb
(past & past part. stimulated; pres. part. stimulating)
1.
Act as a stimulant.  Synonym: excite.  "This play stimulates"  Antonym: stifle.
2.
Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner.  Synonyms: cause, get, have, induce, make.  "My children finally got me to buy a computer" , "My wife made me buy a new sofa"
3.
Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.  Synonyms: excite, shake, shake up, stir.  "The civil war shook the country"
4.
Cause to be alert and energetic.  Synonyms: arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up.  "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate"  Antonyms: de-energise, de-energize, sedate.
5.
Cause to occur rapidly.  Synonyms: hasten, induce, rush.
6.
Stir feelings in.  Synonyms: excite, stir.  "Excite the audience" , "Stir emotions"
7.
Provide the needed stimulus for.  Synonym: provoke.






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"Stimulate" Quotes from Famous Books



... so young as we once were, we relished these stories almost as much as the boys and girls for whom they were written. They were really refreshing, even to us. There is much in them which is calculated to inspire a generous, healthy ambition, and to make distasteful all reading tending to stimulate base ...
— Seek and Find - or The Adventures of a Smart Boy • Oliver Optic

... much that is suggestive in this summary, and, as we said at the commencement, the subject is one of a nature to stimulate inquiry and research, and to lead to further explanations of cosmical phenomena. M. Mathieson's observations, published in the Comptes Rendus of the Academie des Sciences for 1843, shew, that when tested with the thermo-multiplier, the zodiacal light ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 - Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852 • Various

... public opinion, the papers in America stimulate all that is worthless and credulous; and you may search in vain to find careful criticism either upon art, ...
— My Impresssions of America • Margot Asquith

... piling up and massing together of otherwise dry orders, cornices, pilasters, windows, all of which, in his conception, were to serve as framework and pedestals for statuary. He also strove to secure originality and to stimulate astonishment by bizarre modulations of accepted classic forms, by breaking the lines of architraves, combining angularities with curves, adopting a violently accented rhythm and a tortured multiplicity of parts, wherever ...
— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds

... divisions of the principal social organism of India, the village community. Nevertheless Mr. Nesfield's book will always rank as a most interesting and original contribution to the literature of the subject, and his work did much to stimulate inquiry into the ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India--Volume I (of IV) • R.V. Russell


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