Definition of Stimulate

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Stimulate

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory.

To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of (a nerve or an irritable muscle), as by electricity.

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Stimulate Quotations

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
Ernest Holmes

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
Pope John Paul II

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
George Washington Carver

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. Du Bois

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
Alfred Marshall

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
Helen Rowland

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.
Mercedes McCambridge

Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.
Ivan Pavlov

I wanted to stimulate thought instead of throwing things out or try to give a perspective. I just put stuff up and it's up for two or three weeks and I get tired of it, so I take it down and put something else up.
Krist Novoselic

Stimulate Translations

stimulate in Danish is stimulere
stimulate in Dutch is irriteren, aanstoken, ophitsen
stimulate in French is stimulons, inciter, stimulez, stimulent, stimuler
stimulate in German is ankurbeln, anregen, stimulieren
stimulate in Italian is eccitare, esacerbare
stimulate in Latin is instigo
stimulate in Portuguese is estimule
stimulate in Spanish is pinchar, impeler, estimular
stimulate in Swedish is stimulera, pigga upp, egga

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