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stimulate
verb as in excite, provoke
Strong matches
activate, animate, commove, dynamize, elate, energize, enliven, exhilarate, fan, fire, foment, foster, galvanize, goad, grab, hook, impel, incite, inflame, innervate, instigate, jazz, motivate, move, perk, pique, prod, rouse, send, spirit, support, urge, vivify, whet
Weak matches
build a fire under, fire up, get one going, get one started, innerve, juice, key up, set up, steam up, stir up, turn on, wake up, work up
Example Sentences
The data have since arrived: These policies stimulated more energy consumption, not less emissions.
Interestingly, stimulating or activating CtBP2 has been shown to produce therapeutic effects that improve metabolism.
After cutting rates by a full percentage point last year, the Fed has added another half-point of cuts this year, leaving rates closer to the range many consider neutral, neither stimulating nor restraining the economy.
The Fed hopes that the markets can stand on their own and that the central bank can return to stimulating and cooling the economy using its traditional interest-rate tool.
Simply stimulating the immune system, similar to how it responds to a virus, could be enough to generate an antitumor effect.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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