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Definition
to encourage growth, interest or excitement, or to cause something to happen- At the beginning of her lectures, she typically starts with a question to try to stimulate curiosity.
stimulate = encourage (something to happen)
- I had been helping her with electrical stimulation, adjusting her, and administering other chiropractic techniques.Howard E. Wasdin & Stephen Templin -- I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior
- I have been giving him small doses to stimulate it, but they no longer have any effect.Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop
- The idea was revolutionary, an embedded biological-electronic interface that could perfectly simulate sensory stimulation.Matthew Mather -- Cyberstorm
- Now it seemed that what she had thought was maturity, serenity and compassion was only the tranquillity that follows a joyful stimulation.Toni Morrison -- Sula
- The hope was that these programs would be provocative, stimulating, and helpful to listeners.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
- Ruth swaddled her mother in towels, rubbing her to stimulate her circulation.Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- Nothing since was as stimulating as the old days of letters, petitions, meetings, debates, recruitment, quarrels, rescue and downright sedition.Toni Morrison -- Beloved
- It stimulated my libido and I told myself that it was educational because it informed me of the difficulties in the secret world of the pervert.Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- She had pulmonary phthisis, and people like that are frequently highly stimulated.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- It was as if she had drunk a great draught of scorn that stimulated her beyond the susceptibility to other feelings.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
- Apparently the change is stimulated by an environment in which all the animals are of the same sex.Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
- "Or maybe it's because I'm stimulated by the idea of wearing shoes that will make my arches scream for the next couple hours."J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death
- Men and women must have their adrenals stimulated from time to time.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- There was too much reason to think that he and Eustacia both were for ever beyond the reach of stimulating perfumes.Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
- Her absence had provoked the most stimulating week of teaching I had ever enjoyed.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- School stimulated and developed in him those impulses which all of us have, and then he was made to realize that he could not act upon them.Richard Wright -- Native Son
- 'Hola, Pig!' cried Rigaud, with a noisy stimulating cry, as if Cavalletto were an Italian horse or mule.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- At the same time it may provide enough nicotine for taste and sensory stimulation.Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
- Max lockdown was torturous in its monotony and lack of stimulation; the hours and the days crawled by.Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)