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    He was humming merrily as he stoked the fire.  (source)
    stoked = added fuel or stirred a fire to make it burn hotter
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    Stoke the fire and set a pot of water to boil.  (source)
    Stoke = add fuel to make burn hotter
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    Edwin had stoked the flames into a bright blaze.  (source)
    stoked = added fuel or stirred a fire to make it burn hotter; or made feelings stronger
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    That would be cool, and I think both Mel and Damien would be stoked—and God would be proud, too.  (source)
    stoked = excited
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    Stoking it, adding a log, he pretended not to watch the girl.  (source)
    Stoking = adding fuel or stirring a fire to make it burn hotter; or making feelings stronger
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    Stoke that fire, heat that pot.  (source)
    Stoke = add fuel to make burn hotter
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    "Whoever stokes the fire during the night gets an extra pancake in the morning," he said.  (source)
    stokes = adds fuel or stirs a fire to make it burn hotter; or makes feelings stronger
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    On Mountview Street the trees are just of that color and scale Liv is talking about, and though it has been but a few days, the pleasing bulk and hang of the limbs makes me homesick for what lies in wait over the first rise of the street, and I feel doubly sorry for my carelessness in overstoking the fire.†  (source)
    overstoking = making a fire (or feelings) burn excessively hot
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overstoking means excessive. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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    SS bark out orders as the train engine is stoked with coal.†  (source)
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    With professional calmness, firemen in helmets were stoking the dripping engines.  (source)
    stoking = adding fuel to a fire to make it burn hotter
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    Stoke your furnaces and clap on full steam!  (source)
    Stoke = add fuel to make burn hotter
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    Smoke poured from the chimneys, from the furnaces stoked with coal.†  (source)
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    Stoking it just so with the poker; flames jumping to instantly.†  (source)
    Stoking = adding fuel or stirring a fire to make it burn hotter; or making feelings stronger
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    I drove to the only grocery store in town, called Stokes, and applied for a job bagging groceries.  (source)
    Stokes = a name
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    Stoke Mandeville …. or somewhere.  (source)
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    The 5:56 fast train to Stoke has been cancelled, so its passengers have invaded my train and it's standing room only in the carriage.  (source)
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    Ten minutes later they were at Stoke Poges and had started their first round of Obstacle Golf.  (source)
    Stoke = a name
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    I didn't explain the real reason to Bryant Stokes.  (source)
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    Stoke d'Urberville took her back to the lawn and into the tent, where he left her, soon reappearing with a basket of light luncheon, which he put before her himself.  (source)
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    "Wait 'til they get a whiff of Jimmy Stokes' fastball," said the first man.  (source)
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    And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going to Stoke Moran this day.  (source)
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    Afterwards we took a street car to Davison-Paxon-Stokes Company, and then went to M. Rich and Brothers.  (source)
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    …haunt it, too; for it is a wild spot even here, what there is of it; for it does not go far to the south: it goes from here northward and west right over Paddington and a little way down Notting Hill: thence it runs north-east to Primrose Hill, and so on; rather a narrow strip of it gets through Kingsland to Stoke-Newington and Clapton, where it spreads out along the heights above the Lea marshes; on the other side of which, as you know, is Epping Forest holding out a hand to it.  (source)
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    He had Cheyne-Stokes respiration, shallow and quick, and then a minute of apnea, and then she couldn't feel his pulse.  (source)
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    "Haye Park might do," said she, "if the Gouldings could quit it—or the great house at Stoke, if the drawing-room were larger; but Ashworth is too far off!"  (source)
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    But we could have done it all, and almost without losses, with a Stokes mortar.  (source)
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