Stimulate

Word STIMULATE
Character 9
Hyphenation stim u late
Pronunciations /ˈstɪmjʊleɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Stimulate"

What do we mean by stimulate?

To rouse to action or increased activity; excite: synonym: provoke. intransitive verb

To increase temporarily the activity of (a body organ or system, for example). intransitive verb

To cause to be interested or engaged. intransitive verb

To cause to desire to have sex; arouse sexually. intransitive verb

To excite or invigorate (a person, for example) with a stimulant. intransitive verb

To act or serve as a stimulant or stimulus. intransitive verb

To prick; goad; excite, rouse, or animate to action or more vigorous exertion by some effective motive or by persuasion; spur on; incite.

In physiology, to quicken temporarily some functional or trophic process in.

Specifically, to affect by the use of intoxicating drinks.

Synonyms To encourage, impel, urge, instigate, provoke, whet, foment, kindle, stir up.

To act as a stimulus.

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. transitive verb

To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of (a nerve or an irritable muscle), as by electricity. transitive verb

To encourage into action. verb

To arouse an organism to functional activity. verb

Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner verb

Cause to occur rapidly verb

Stir feelings in verb

Act as a stimulant verb

Cause to be alert and energetic verb

To encourage into action.

To arouse an organism to functional activity.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Stimulate

The word "stimulate" in example sentences

But all this print-money scheme will ever stimulate is inflation … in the months leading right-up to midterms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What mothers should know about the patent medicine evil -- Tonics -- Used by temperance people because it could "stimulate" -- Stomach Bitters -- Blood ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The 1.2 trillion ‘stimulus’ that didn’t stimulate is a prime example. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While our methods of treating acute diseases have a sedative effect, our treatment of chronic diseases is calculated to stimulate, that is, to arouse the sluggish organism to greater activity in order to produce the acute inflammatory reactions or healing crises. ❋ Henry Lindlahr (1893)

President Obama is having to spend to get this ecomony going again, to create jobs, aka stimulate the economy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"The government, no matter how much they try to stimulate, that is not going to correct the underlying problem."

Despite the attempt to turn a derivation of the positive word "stimulate" into a negative, there's very little about the stimulus that actually sucked, other than the fact that it wasn't big enough. ❋ Bob Cesca (2010)

But the reality is, isn't it intended to kind of stimulate interest in the elections? ❋ Unknown (2010)

It stands to reason; if tax cuts fail to "stimulate" the economy, DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT! ❋ Unknown (2009)

If they really wanted to "stimulate" the economy, that $787,000,000,000 of our money would've been doled back out to the people who earned it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Come on, who really thought this was going to "stimulate" the economy? ❋ Unknown (2009)

I hate to breake it to you but pretty soon 7 months will be a year and then 2 and then 3yrs and it will not have done anything to "stimulate" the economy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It took FDR's New Deal government wasteful spending more than 10 years to "stimulate" the economy out of the Great Depression, it's going to take Obama just as long to "stimulate" the economy out of this Great Recession. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unemployment keeps going up ... and you want to "stimulate" us some more? ❋ Unknown (2009)

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