Stimulate

Definition: Stimulate

Stimulate

Verb

1. Act as a stimulant; "The book stimulated her imagination".

2. Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner: "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa".

3. Stir the feelings or emotions of; "These stories shook the community".

4. Cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate me".

5. Of bodily processes such as fever, illness, etc.

6. Stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience".

7. Provide the needed stimulus for.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stimulate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Etymology: Stimulate \Stim"u*late\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Stimulated; present participle verb or noun Stimulating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Stimulate

Excitation

Stimulate; exsuscitate; inspirit; spirit up, stir up, work up, pique; infuse life into, give new life to; bring new blood, introduce new blood; quicken; sharpen, whet; work upon; (incite); hurry on, give a fillip, put on one's mettle.

Motive

Stimulate; (excite); spirit up, inspirit; rouse, arouse; animate, incite, foment, provoke, instigate, set on, actuate;act upon, work upon, operate upon; encourage; pat on the back, pat on the shoulder, clap on the back, clap on the shoulder.

Pain

Attract, allure; (move); stimulate; (excite); interest.

Physical Energy

Verb: give -energy; Noun: energize, stimulate, kindle, excite, exert; sharpen, intensify; inflame; (render violent); wind up; (strengthen).

Violence

Render violent; Adjective: sharpen, stir up, quicken, excite, incite, annoy, urge, lash, stimulate, turn on; irritate, inflame, kindle, suscitate, foment; accelerate, aggravate, exasperate, exacerbate, convulse, infuriate, madden, lash into fury; fan the flame; add fuel to the flame, pour oil on the fire, oleum addere camino.

Crosswords: Stimulate

Mr. Gardner, do you agree with Ben, or do you think that we can stimulate growth through temporary incentives? (Being There; writing credit: Jerzy Kosinski)

If we can stimulate that nerve, the bowel will convulse, expelling the entire worm society. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

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Books

• Adventures In Odyssey Bible Nkjv: Hardcover Edition Stimulate Creative Thinking About The Bible (reference)

• Bright Baby: Understand and Stimulate Your Child's Development (reference)

• Five Star Mind: Games and Exercises to Stimulate Your Creativity and Imagination (reference)

• More Love Talks for Couples: 101 Questions to Stimulate Interaction With Your Spouse (reference)

• Please Touch: How to Stimulate Your Childs Creative Development (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Locate Stimulate Aluminate (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Baby Bach-Music to Stimulate Your Baby's Brain (reference)

• Innovations: Music to Stimulate the Mind (reference)

• Stimulate Mind Freedom [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The nurse is instructing a black woman, a colon cancer patient and her husband on how to administer a subcutaneous injection of colony stimulating factor (CSF). CSF is used after chemotherapy to stimulate bone marrow production of white blood cells in order to prevent infection. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Prairie burn to stimulate new growth and recycle nutrients. Konza Biological Research Station, Manhattan, KS. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Aerial view of prairie burn to stimulate grass growth and production. Manhattan, Kansas. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Land Managers set a prairie burn with drip torches to stimulate new growth and recycle nutrients. Konza Biological Research Station, Manhattan, KS. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Machine that is used to stimulate blood circulation in the legs. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by C. Huber..

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Where Miss Taylor failed to stimulate, I may safely affirm that Harriet Smith will do nothing.

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Health

Certain devices stimulate the muscles around the urethra. (references)

It may even be possible to stimulate brain repair mechanisms by exercising. (references)

This will stabilize overactive muscles and stimulate contraction of urethral muscles. (references)

Business

This new trend in the after-market service should stimulate major changes in the industry. (references)

Production is up, although consumer consumption remains weak. The weak Euro currency continues to stimulate exports. (references)

The local interest rate is expecting to remain low level as the Bank of Thailand tries to stimulate more economic growth. (references)

Civil Liberties

Philippines

In the latter part of the year, the Government increased its efforts to stimulate economic development in the south. (references)

Philippines

Muslims, who are concentrated in the most impoverished parts of western Mindanao, claim economic discrimination, reflected in the Government's failure to provide sufficient funding to stimulate southwestern Mindanao's sluggish economic development. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

Mexico has two programs to stimulate manufactured exports. (references)

Political Economy

SWITZERLAND

No systematic use is made of fiscal policy to stimulate the economy. (references)

MALAYSIA

Fiscal Policy: The government is pursuing an expansive fiscal policy in order to stimulate economic growth. (references)

France

French efforts to elaborate a detailed European plan to stimulate job creation, however, have so far been unsuccessful. (references)

Trade

Poland

Guarantees are used to stimulate investment, and the World Bank only provides partial guarantees, sharing the risk with private lenders. (references)

West Bank

The PA, Israel, and the international donor community are establishing industrial zones in WB/G to stimulate local economic activity and employment. (references)

China

In an attempt to stimulate exports, the State Tax Administration increased VAT rebates several times in 1999, up to 17% (a full rebate) for certain kinds of processed exports. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "stimulate": stimulate smb.'s zeal. Additional references.

Ending with "stimulate": over-stimulate.

Albanian

stimuloj (fillip, incite, prod, urge), nxit (abet, actuate, arouse, begrime, bring, dare, dispose, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, incendiarism, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), nxis (abet, actuate, animate, arouse, begrime, bring, challenge, dare, dispose, drive, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), eksitoj (excite). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نشط (activate, active, animate, bestir oneself, brisk, buoyant, elevate, ginger, harden, hum, invigorate, live, liven, pep up, perk up, pick up, practising, pushing, quick, quicken, reactivate, rekindle, revive, rouse, stringent, strong, vivify, waken), ‏نبه (awaken, excite, exhilarate, jog, remind, urge, waken, whet), ‏حفز (catalyze, spur), ‏حث (actuate, admonish, debriefing, dub, encourage, encouragement, goad, gun, hurry, impel, incitation, incite, induce, induce to speak, inducement, interest, motivate, motivation, motive, persuade, precipitate, press, prod, prompt, prompting, propel, provocation, provoke, push on, recommend, rouse, solicit, solicitation, spur, stimulation, stir, tempt), ‏أثار (aggravate, arouse, awaken, bestir, burn, chafe, elicit, engage, evoke, exacerbate, exalt, excite, fan, ferment, flurry, foment, fray, frazzle, fret, fuss, gall, get, gravel, gripe, heat, impassion, inflame, infuriate, inspire, instigate, irritate, itch, jog, jostle, kindle, madden, move, outrage, pique, remnant, rile, rouse, sour, switch on, tease, thrill, touch off, transport, trigger, trouble, turn on, unsettle, urge, vex, whet, whip, work). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стимулирам (animate, brace, excite, exhilarate, goad, innervate, irritate, quicken, urge), възбуждам (actuate, agitate, arouse, engage, enkindle, excite, ferment, heat, inflame, irritate, key up, pique, provoke, raise, set up, sting, stir, thrill, turn on), насъсквам (hound on, impel, prod, work up), поощрявам (abet, bring on, cultivate, encourage, lead on, pander, promote, push). (various references)

Chinese 

勗 (exhort), 勖 (exhort), 刺激 (fueled, fueling, Goaded, Goading, incentive, Jarred, jarring, motivate, motivating, motivation, stimulated, stimulating, stimulation, Stimuli, stimulus). (various references)

Czech

stimulovat (boost, fuel, innervate, invigorate, motivate), povzbudit (buck up, cheer up, embolden, encourage, hearten, sharpen, spirit, stir, whet), podnìcovat (actuate, foment, impel, incite, instigate, prod, promote). (various references)

Danish

stimulere (abet, rouse, stir up). (various references)

Dutch

ophitsen (abet, agitate, excite, incite, provoke, rouse, stir up), irriteren (abet, excite, incite, provoke, rouse, stir up), aanstoken (abet, excite, incite, provoke, rouse, stir up). (various references)

Esperanto

stimuli (rouse, stir up), sproni (incite, rouse, spur, stir up), vigligi (encourage), plivigligi (fan, fire, inspire, stir up, urge on), plifervorigi (cheer, fire, inspire), instigi (encourage, impel, instigate, spur on, urge), inciti (abet, excite, incite, provoke, rouse, stir up). (various references)

Faeroese

líva upp (encourage), elva (abet, advance, encourage, impel, instigate, spur on, suggest, urge), eggja til (abet, encourage, impel, instigate, spur on, urge), arga (abet, carp at, excite, haze, incite, provoke, quibble, rouse, stir up), øsa (abet, agitate, excite, incite, provoke, rouse, stir up). (various references)

Farsi 

تهییج کردن (Incense, Motivate, Whet), تحریک کردن (Actuate, Agitate, Annoy, Arouse, Bestir, Edge, Egg, Excite, Fuel, Ginger, Goad, Hypo, Incense, Incite, Instigate, Motivate, Move, Pique, Prick, Prime, Provoke), انگیختن (Fire, Inanimate, Incite, Motive, Occasion, Urge). (various references)

Finnish

virkistää (buck up, invigorate, refresh), kiihottaa (abet, agitate, excite, incite, rouse, stir up). (various references)

French

stimuler (stir up), inciter (stir, stir up). (various references)

Frisian

oanwakkerje (abet, encourage, impel, instigate, spur on, urge), oanwakkereje (abet, fan, fire, inspire, stir up, urge), oantrune (abet, encourage, impel, instigate, rouse, spur on, stir up, urge), oantrúnje (abet, encourage, impel, instigate, rouse, spur on, stir up, urge), oansjasje (abet, excite, incite, provoke, rouse, stir up), oanmoedigje (encourage), oanhysje (abet, cheer, encourage, excite, fire, impel, incite, inspire, instigate, provoke, rouse, spur on, stir up, urge), oanfjurje (abet, cheer, encourage, fire, impel, inspire, instigate, rouse, spur on, stir up, urge), oanfiterje (abet, cheer, encourage, fire, impel, inspire, instigate, rouse, spur on, stir up, urge). (various references)

German

stimulieren (abet, rouse, stir up, to stimulate), anregen (abet, agitate, animate, encourage, excite, incite, innervate, inspire, instigate, motivate, prompt, propose, quicken, rouse, sharpen, stir up, suggest, to animate, to excite, to innervate, to inspire, to motivate, to stimulate, vivify, whet), reizen (abet, aggravate, annoy, appeal, bid, bidden, bidding, excite, incite, irritate, irritation, itch, peeve, pique, provoke, rile, rouse, stir up, tease, tempt, to irritate, to pique), ermuntern (cheer up, encourage, invigorate, liven up), anspornen (abet, cheer on, encourage, impel, incite, instigate, prod, spur, spur on, to incite, to spur, urge), anreizen (abet, act as an incentive, encourage, excite, incite, provoke, rouse, stir up). (various references)

Greek 

διεγείρω (actuate, arouse, excite, incite, kindle, switch on). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעורר (alarm, alert, appeal, contest, excite, infuriate, inspire, instigate, occasion, promote, prompt, spark, spirit, stir up), ל�"מריץ (drive, encourage, goad, hearten, impel, instigate, spirit, spur, stir up, tone up, urge), ל�"רבן (egg on, goad, prod, spur, sting, stir up, urge). (various references)

Hungarian

stimulál (to energize, to stimulate), serkent (quicken, to animate, to exhort, to quicken, to rouse, to stimulate), sarkall (prod, prompt, to actuate, to prick, to prompt, to spur, to stimulate, to touch up, to wake, woke, woken), izgat (excite, fluster, irritate, rile, to alarm, to excite, to fillip, to flurry, to fluster, to flutter, to fret, to harangue, to irritate, to lash, to rile, to stir, to worry), ingerel (incite, irritate, nettle, titillate, to irritate, to nettle, to provoke, to rasp sy's feelings, to rile, to rot, to tease, to vex), hajt (drive, impel, propel, sprout, to actuate, to chase, to cook, to drift, to gun for, to impel, to pole, to propel, to run heel, to stool, to tear ass, to tool along, to tool down), ösztönöz (drive, excite, incite, innervate, invite, spur, to actuate, to incite, to inspire, to prick, to touch up, to urge), ösztökél (egg on, impel, instigate, to edge on, to egg on, to egg sy on to do sg, to egg sy to do sg, to foment, to impel, to jack up, to prod, to spur, to stimulate, urge). (various references)

Indonesian

penggairahan (encouragement), menggairahkan (delight, enrapture, ravishing). (various references)

Italian

stimolare (abet, actuate, animate, energise, Energize, goad, incite, invite, motivate, quicken, rouse, spur, stir, stir up, tickle, whet), incitare (abet, animate, egg, embolden, excite, goad, hound, impel, incite, lash, prompt, provoke, rouse, spur, sting, stir, stir up, tempt), spronare (abet, excite, goad, incite, provoke, rouse, spur, stir, stir up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

突き動かす (to arouse, to stimulate, to stir up), 火吹き竹 (bamboo blowpipe used to stimulate a fire), 振り起�"す (to stimulate, to stir up), 成長�'促す (stimulate growth), �"�る (to arouse, to excite, to incite, to stimulate, to stir up, to tempt), 促す (to demand, to incite, to invite, to press, to quicken, to stimulate, to suggest, to urge). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そそる (to arouse, to excite, to incite, to stimulate, to stir up, to tempt), ひふき� け (bamboo blowpipe used to stimulate a fire), うながす (to demand, to incite, to invite, to press, to quicken, to stimulate, to suggest, to urge), ふりお�"す (to stimulate, to stir up), つきう�"かす (to arouse, to stimulate, to stir up). (various references)

Korean 

자극하십시�" (irritate). (various references)

Manx

greinnaghey (abet, activate, activation, coach, coaching, encourage, encouragement, goad, incite, induce, inducement, prompt). (various references)

Papiamen

stimulá (abet, rouse, stir up). (various references)

Pig Latin

imulatestay

Portuguese

incitar (abet, actuate, arouse, awake, egg, egg on, encourage, excite, goad, halloo, impel, incite, instigate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, rouse, set on, spur on, stir up, urge), estimular (accelerate, actuate, arouse, awake, encourage, energize, excite, exhort, fillip, flatter, flush, galvanize, impel, incite, inspire, inspirit, irritate, jog, kindle, nurture, press, promote, put forward, quicken, rouse, stir up, urge, vivify, waken, whet). (various references)

Romanian

stimula (abet, activate, actuate, brace, cheer, develop, dynamize, elate, Energize, enliven, excite, fillip, fire, gladden, goad, hop, incite, inspire, irritate, lash, motive, needle, pander to, pep, pep up, prick, prompt, propel, provoke, push, quicken, rouse, sharpen, spur, stir up, tickle, urge, whet), încuraja (buck up, cheer, countenance, elate, embolden, encourage, fire, hearten, inspire, inspirit, key up, nerve, pep, promote, reassure, stomach, support, uphold). (various references)

Russian 

стимулировать (give an impetus to, hype up). (various references)

Scottish

brosnaich (incite), brog. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stimulisati (exhilarate, jog), podstrekavati, dražiti (bait, provoke). (various references)

Spanish

estimular (abet, boost, bring on, encourage, excite, exhilarate, fuel, ginger up, incite, invigorate, jog, liven, liven up, prod, promote, prompt, quicken, rouse, shake up, spur, stir, stir up, titillate, whip up), instigar (abet, activate, cause, excite, give rise to, incite, initiate, instigate, provoke, rouse, start, stir up), inpulsar (abet, encourage, impel, instigate, spur on, urge), incitar (abet, cheer, encourage, fan, fire, impel, incite, inciter, inspire, instigate, provoke, put up, rouse, spur on, stir, stir up, urge, urge on), espolear (abet, encourage, impel, incite, instigate, prick, rouse, spur, spur on, stir up, urge), animar (abet, animate, brighten up, brisk, buck up, cheer, embolden, encourage, enliven, fan, fire, hearten, impel, inspire, inspirit, instigate, jazz, lift, liven, liven up, pep up, perk up, pull for, reman, rouse, spur on, stir up, urge, urge on). (various references)

Swedish

stimulera (Energize, excite, fillip, invigorate, key up, whet), pigga upp (buck up, cheer up, enliven, exhilarate, jazz, jazz up, jolly, lighten, liven, pep up, smarten), egga (egg on, enkindle, excite, goad, impel, incite, instigate, pique, prod, quicken, set on). (various references)

Turkish

sinirlendirmek (aggravate, anger, annoy, bugger, disconcert, exacerbate, fret, get smb.'s dander up, get smb.'s shirt out, give the willies, grate, incense, irritate, jangle smb.'s nerves, make angry, needle, put smb. out of temper, rile, rough the wrong way, ruffle smb.'s temper, string up, unnerve, unstring), uyarmak (admonish, advise, advise against, advise smb. of smth., alert, awake, awake smb. to smth., caution, charge, excite, exhort, expostulate, forewarn, give notice, give smb. notice of, give warning, induce, lecture, remonstrate, serve notice, sex up, tip, tip off, tip smb. off, tip the wink, warn), teşvik etmek (abet, cheer, cheer on, countenance, draw, egg, egg on, embolden, encourage, fillip, Foster, ginger, ginger up, give a fillip to, give countenance to, goad, goad on, incite, induce, inspirit, instigate, keep smb. in countenance, lend countenance to, lend wings to, prod, prompt, put a premium on, put smb. on his mettle, revitalize, set on, sharpen, spark, spoonfeed, spur, spur smb. on, stir up, tickle up, urge), tahrik etmek (agitate, egg, egg on, excite, fan, ferment, hound, hound on, incite, instigate, irritate, jockey into, move, provoke, rough the wrong way, rouse, seduce, solicit, sting, stir up, turn on, whet, whip up, wind up, work up), gayrete getirmek, canlandırmak (accelerate, animate, arouse, brace, bring to life, brisk, brisk up, characterize, drum up, enact, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, freshen, furbish up, galvanize, ginger, ginger up, give a fresh impetus to, hearten, impersonate, innervate, inspire, inspirit, interpret, invigorate, jazz, jazz up, jog, key up, liven, liven up, pep up, perform, personalize, personate, personify, play, play the role of, portray, quicken, rake up, rally, recreate, refresh, regenerate, represent, revitalize, revive, revivify, rouse, rouse up, smarten, smarten up, spirit, spirit up, tone up, touch up, uplift, vitalize, vivify, wake, waken), alevlendírmek (abet, excite, incite, provoke, rouse, stir up). (various references)

Ukrainian

стимулювати (apprompt, goad, pep up, propel), збуджувати (actuate, agitate, amove, animate, arouse, electrify, elevate, exalt, excite, flurry, flush, incite, innervate, key up, kindle, pique, provoke, tense, thrill, wake, whet, wind up, work up). (various references)

Welsh

symbylu (goad, spur). (various references)

conpuncti, conpunctum, conpungar, conpungimini, conpunxerunt, erecta, erectae, erectas, erecti, erectio, erectionis, erectis, erecto, erectum, erectus, erexerat, erexerunt, erexi, erexisset, erexisti, erexit, erexitque, erigam, erigantur, erigas, erigat, erige, erigebant, erigens, erigent, erigere, eriges, erigetis, erigetur, erigimini, erigit, erigite, erigitur, exacuatur, exacuere, exacuerunt, exacuit, exacutus, instigo, stimulare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stimulate": stimulated, stimulates. (additional references)

Words ending with "stimulate": hyperstimulate, overstimulate, restimulate, superstimulate. (additional references)

Words containing "stimulate": hyperstimulated, hyperstimulates, overstimulated, overstimulates, restimulated, restimulates, superstimulated, superstimulates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stimulate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: simulata, stimulat, stimulater, Timikata, timulate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mutilates, ultimates.

-1 letter: maltiest, metalist, mutilate, simulate, smaltite, ultimate.

-2 letters: amulets, etatism, muletas, mutates, situate, ultimas.

-3 letters: amulet, astute, autism, emails, lamest, latest, lattes, litmus, lutist, mailes, mattes, meatus, mesial, metals, miauls, misate, miseat, muesli, muleta, mutase, mutate, mutest, saltie, salute, samiel, samite, samlet, smalti, statue, stelai, tamest, telium, titles, ulemas, ultima.

-4 letters: aisle, alist, almes, alums.

+1 letter: multistage, multistate, stimulated, stimulates.

+2 letters: milquetoast, multitasked, mutualities, restimulate, stimulative.

+3 letters: curtailments, instrumental, matriculates, metallurgist, midlatitudes, milquetoasts, multivalents, mutabilities, restimulated, restimulates, simultaneity, tetrazoliums, tolbutamides, ultimateness, ultraleftism.

+4 letters: documentalist, instrumentals, metallurgists, misarticulate, multimegatons, multispectral, multistranded, overstimulate, restimulating, restimulation, supermilitant, ultraleftisms, unsentimental.

+5 letters: antepenultimas, automobilities, documentalists, fundamentalist, hyperstimulate, immutabilities, imputabilities, instrumentally, intermenstrual, metalinguistic, misarticulated, misarticulates, multifilaments, multimegawatts, outmanipulates, overstimulated, overstimulates, restimulations, rheumatologist, simultaneities, superstimulate, ultimatenesses, ultramodernist.