All 4 Uses
stimulate
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This Side of Paradise
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- He missed the place he had won at St. Regis', the being known and admired, yet Princeton stimulated him, and there were many things ahead calculated to arouse the Machiavelli latent in him, could he but insert a wedge.†
Chpt 1.2stimulated = encouraged growth or excitement, or caused something to happen
- There was a proper consumption of strong waters all along the line; one man invariably went on the stage highly stimulated, claiming that his particular interpretation of the part required it.†
Chpt 1.2
- He learned that some of the boys she went with in Baltimore were "terrible speeds" and came to dances in states of artificial stimulation; most of them were twenty or so, and drove alluring red Stutzes.†
Chpt 1.2stimulation = something that encourages something else to happen; or the process of something being encouraged
- Declining further locomotion or further stimulation, Amory left the car and sauntered back along the board walk to the hotel.†
Chpt 2.4 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(stimulate) to encourage growth, interest or excitement, or to cause something to happen
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)