stimulate
To encourage into action.
Example
“stimulate the economy”
Other meanings
To arouse an organism to functional activity.
“stimulate my mind”
Related words
- autostimulate
- counterstimulate
- gravistimulate
- immunostimulate
- interstimulate
- neurostimulate
- photostimulate
- prestimulate
- stimulable
- stimulancy
- stimulatable
- stimulatee
Word history
From Latin "stimulātus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “stimulate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.