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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
They chemically stimulated the granule cells in mouse brain tissue samples to activate the process of memory formation.
“When we’re really emotionally stimulated, it makes it so much more challenging to have civil conversation. For politicians, I think that’s powerful, because emotions can be very easily manipulated.”
The T-vant adjuvant is derived from bacterial outer membrane vesicles, tiny particles that naturally stimulate the immune system.
In this proof-of-concept study, which was published in Immunotherapy Advances,the research team introduced fragments, called peptides, that stimulate the T cells engineered to fight Hepatitis B virus-related liver cancer present in the treated patients.
The Fed eventually wants to get to a point where interest rates are neither stimulating nor restricting the economy, as they are now.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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