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Word Meanings - STIMULATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of , as by electricity. Syn. -- To animate; incite; encourage; impel; urge; instigate; irritate; exasperate; incense. (more info) 1. To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse,

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To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of , as by electricity. Syn. -- To animate; incite; encourage; impel; urge; instigate; irritate; exasperate; incense. (more info) 1. 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. To excite and stimulate us thereunto. Dr. J. Scott.

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  • PROMPT-BOOK
    The book used by a prompter of a theater.
  • ROUSE
    To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
  • REVIVEMENT
    Revival.
  • REINVIGORATE
    To invigorate anew.
  • AGITATE
    1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
  • VIVIFY
    To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon. (more info) Etym:
  • RAISE
    To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
  • RAISED
    1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
  • BUDGE
    To move off; to stir; to walk away. I'll not budge an inch, boy. Shak. The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they. Shak.
  • REVIVE
    To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal. (more info) 1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak. The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into
  • PROMPTLY
    In a prompt manner.
  • CHEERINESS
    The state of being cheery.
  • ALARM
    1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
  • HURRY-SKURRY
    Confusedly; in a bustle. Gray.
  • RUFFLEMENT
    The act of ruffling.
  • COMPOSE
    To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
  • COMPOSER
    1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
  • CHEERISNESS
    Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
  • CHEERINGLY
    In a manner to cheer or encourage.
  • BUDGET
    1. A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions. 2. The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view
  • UPCHEER
    To cheer up. Spenser.
  • APPRAISER
    One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
  • ENQUICKEN
    To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
  • SUTURALLY
    In a sutural manner.
  • MISRAISE
    To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
  • TROUSERING
    Cloth or material for making trousers.
  • PRAISEWORTHINESS
    The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
  • EFFLAGITATE
    To ask urgently. Cockeram.
  • CENTRALLY
    In a central manner or situation.
  • TRUFFLE
    Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle and the English truffle are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm , the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious
  • WHURRY
    To whisk along quickly; to hurry. Whurrying the chariot with them to the shore. Vicars.
  • TROUSE
    Trousers. Spenser.
  • DECOMPOSE
    To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
  • PASTORALLY
    1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.

 

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