stimulate
stimulate
Definition
stimu·late (--lāt′)
transitive verb -·lat′ed, -·lat′·ing
- to rouse or excite to action or increased action; animate; spur on
- to invigorate or seem to invigorate, as by an alcoholic drink
- Med., Physiol. to excite (an organ, part, etc.) to activity or increased activity
Etymology: < L stimulatus, pp. of stimulare, to prick, goad, excite < stimulus: see stimulus
intransitive verb
to act as a stimulant or stimulus
stim′u·lat′er noun or stim′u·la′·tor
stim′u·la′·tion noun
stim′u·la′·tive adjective, noun
stimulate
Synonyms
stimulate
v.
stimulate
Usage Examples
Object
- debate: At the design festival, the sculptures stimulated debate about how to improve the site.
- discussion: Each small group could feed back to the whole, stimulating discussion.
- circulation: Sauna and Steam Room Sauna and steam bathing stimulates blood circulation and relaxes the muscles.
- imagination: Words don't simply stimulate the imagination - they require it.
- appetite: High calorie, high energy Vitamin concentrate, Palatable dietary supplement helps stimulate appetite, increases weight gain.
- creativity: IDEO's methods of working are designed to stimulate creativity.
Adjective complement
- new: While in other applications, it is being used for the first time to create and stimulate new, exciting markets.
Modifying Another Word
- intellectually: Sleeping Crying Physical activity, games, intellectually stimulating play, etc, .
- electrically: Electrically stimulated bone healing is usually used only in severe breaks and spinal injuries, where the body has difficulty healing itself.
- optically: The method optically stimulated luminescence ( OSL ) is a way of establishing the age of soil sediments.
- artificially: The policy of artificially stimulating investment is also too reminiscent of postwar conventional wisdom.
- mentally: It is a general tonic and invigorating to the physique, as well as mentally stimulating.
- visually: The Year One CD-Rom provides an exciting and visually stimulating way to teach handwriting to the whole class using an interactive whiteboard.
Used with why or when
- when: Furthermore, knowledge acquisition and information gathering activity will be stimulated when progress becomes difficult.
Infinitive complement
- produce: Pollen tube When a pollen grain lands on the stigma of a flower, it is stimulated to produce a pollen tube.
- develop: Of the 71 eggs obtained, 22 eggs were chemically stimulated to develop parthenogenetically, and 19 were used for nuclear transplant cloning.
- do: Hopefully they will be stimulated to do so, but ultimately it is their personal choice.
Present participle complement
- learn: Senior School The Senior School provides a lively, stimulating learning environment.
- think: Written by experts, they will stimulate thinking about what current trends mean for practitioners and their organizations ' activities.
Preposition: for
- child: It was felt this would be potentially stimulating for children to build bottom-up composite behaviors and games in Open Logo.
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