stimulate
verbEtymology
Etymology tree Latin stimulus Latin stimulo Latin stimulatusbor. English stimulate Borrowed from Latin stimulātus, perfect passive participle of stimulō (“to urge, goad on”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin stimulus (“a sting or prick; a stimulus, goad”).
- borrowed from stimulātus
Definitions
To encourage into action.
- stimulate the economy
- To most others Lord Allerton's obvious preference for Mary would have been an insuperable obstacle; it only served to stimulate her ladyship.
To arouse an organism to functional activity.
- stimulate my mind
- He was sexually stimulated by the dancer's moves.
The neighborhood
- neighborstimulant
- neighborstimulation
- neighborstimulator
- neighborstimulatory
- neighborstimulus
Derived
autostimulate, biostimulate, colony-stimulating factor, costimulate, counterstimulate, destimulate, electrostimulate, follicle-stimulating hormone, follicle stimulating hormone, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, gravistimulate, hyperstimulate, immunostimulate, instimulate, interstimulate, melanocyte-stimulating hormone, microstimulate, neurostimulate, overstimulate, photostimulate, prestimulate, restimulate, self-stimulate, stimulable, stimulancy, stimulatable, stimulatee, stimulater, superstimulate, thyroid-stimulating hormone, understimulate
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at stimulate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at stimulate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at stimulate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA