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    If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it — " He stopped talking.†  (source)
    stimulate = to encourage growth or excitement, or to cause something to happen
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    To stimulate the nervous system and various organs.†  (source)
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    I hadn't realized how sweltering the room was, how stimulated my sweat glands had gotten.†  (source)
    stimulated = encouraged growth or excitement, or caused something to happen
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    Apparently the change is stimulated by an environment in which all the animals are of the same sex.†  (source)
    stimulated = encouraged growth or excitement, or caused something to happen
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    Done to stimulate responses in the killzone, where the Flare does its damage.†  (source)
    stimulate = to encourage growth or excitement, or to cause something to happen
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    He reminisced about the stimulating conversations that took place in rustic pubs over warm beer.†  (source)
    stimulating = interesting or exciting; or encouraging interest or excitement; or causing something to happen
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    It was a place of energy and creativity and intellectual stimulation the likes of which we'd never seen.†  (source)
    stimulation = something that encourages something else to happen; or the process of something being encouraged
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    In addition to containing the transmitter, the serum stimulates the amygdala, which is the part of the brain involved in processing negative emotions—like fear—and then induces a hallucination.†  (source)
    stimulates = encourages growth or excitement, or causes something to happen
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    Only those Monsters and Demons who were still in the initial stage could give their overstimulated brains the thrill they craved, like the red cape of the matador.†  (source)
    overstimulated = excessively excited
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overstimulated means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overinflate.
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    Consider the wastes incidental to the blind and haphazard production of commodities—the factories closed, the workers idle, the goods spoiling in storage; consider the activities of the stock manipulator, the paralyzing of whole industries, the overstimulation of others, for speculative purposes; the assignments and bank failures, the crises and panics, the deserted towns and the starving populations!†  (source)
    overstimulation = the process of excessive encouragement or excitement
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overstimulation means excessive. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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    The fear grows shadowy; and Imagination, the enemy of men, the father of all terrors, unstimulated, sinks to rest in the dullness of exhausted emotion.†  (source)
    unstimulated = not encouraged or emotionally aroused
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unstimulated means not and reverses the meaning of stimulated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    But I found most books boring and unstimulating.†  (source)
    unstimulating = not arousing interest or excitement
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unstimulating means not and reverses the meaning of stimulating. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The bullets were whining and whistling so stimulatingly around him and his horse was so eager to go that he could not restrain himself.†  (source)
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