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At the beginning of her lectures, she typically starts with a question to try to stimulate curiosity.stimulate = encourage activity or development
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The bright colors and flashing lights of the arcade were designed to stimulate the children's senses.stimulate = excite or arouse
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The government hopes that the new tax breaks will stimulate the economy.stimulate = encourage activity or development in
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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 encouragedstandard 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 excitedstandard 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 excitementstandard 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 arousedstandard 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 excitementstandard 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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