stimulate

English

Etymology

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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”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstɪm.jʊ.leɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈstɪm.jəˌleɪt/

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Verb

stimulate (third-person singular simple present stimulates, present participle stimulating, simple past and past participle stimulated)

1. To encourage into action.

   Synonyms: encourage, induce, incite, provoke; see also Thesaurus:incite

   stimulate the economy

   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 18:

     To most others Lord Allerton's obvious preference for Mary would have been an insuperable obstacle; it only served to stimulate her ladyship.

2. To arouse an organism to functional activity.

   Synonyms: animate, arouse, energize, energise, excite, perk up; see also Thesaurus:enliven

   Synonyms: de-energize, sedate, stifle

   stimulate my mind

   He was sexually stimulated by the dancer's moves.

Derived terms

• 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

Related terms

• stimulant
• stimulation
• stimulator
• stimulatory
• stimulus

Translations

to encourage into action

Armenian: գրգռել (hy) (grgṙel) Belarusian: стымулява́ць impf or pf (stymuljavácʹ) Bulgarian: подбу́ждам (bg) (podbúždam) Catalan: estimular (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 刺激 (zh) (cìjī) Czech: podnítit Dutch: stimuleren (nl), aansporen (nl), prikkelen (nl) Esperanto: stimuli Finnish: piristää (fi), yllyttää (fi), ärsyttää (fi), elvyttää (fi) (the economy, etc.), stimuloida (fi) French: stimuler (fr) Galician: estimular (gl) German: stimulieren (de) Greek: παρακινώ (el) (parakinó), παροτρύνω (el) (parotrýno) Ancient: ἐρεθίζω (erethízō) Hungarian: elősegít (hu) Italian: stimolare (it) Japanese: 刺激する (ja) (しげきする, shigeki suru) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: hander kirin f Latin: commoveō (la) Maltese: ħeġġeġ Maori: whakahohe, whakaihiihi, whakahihiko, whakamanawa, whakahihiko Norman: stînmuler Occitan: estimular (oc) Persian: انگیختن (fa), برانگیختن (fa), تَحرِیک کردن (fa), تَشوِیق کردن (fa) Polish: stymulować (pl) impf Portuguese: estimular (pt), incentivar (pt) Romanian: stimula (ro) Russian: стимули́ровать (ru) (stimulírovatʹ) Spanish: estimular (es) Swedish: egga (sv), reta (sv), sporra (sv) Ukrainian: стимулюва́ти impf or pf (stymuljuváty)

to arouse an organism to functional activity

Albanian: stimuloj (sq) Armenian: գրգռել (hy) (grgṙel) Bulgarian: стимулирам (bg) (stimuliram) Catalan: estimular (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 刺激 (zh) (cìjī) Dutch: stimuleren (nl), prikkelen (nl) Esperanto: stimuli Finnish: kiihottaa (fi), elvyttää (fi), stimuloida (fi) French: stimuler (fr) German: stimulieren (de) Greek: διεγείρω (el) (diegeíro) Italian: stimolare (it) Japanese: 刺激する (ja) (しげきする, shigeki suru) Norman: stînmuler Persian: تحریکیدن Portuguese: estimular (pt) Romanian: stimula (ro) Russian: стимули́ровать (ru) (stimulírovatʹ) Spanish: estimular (es) Swedish: ge näring åt, pigga upp (sv), stimulera (sv), väcka (sv) Ukrainian: збу́джувати impf (zbúdžuvaty), збуди́ти pf (zbudýty)

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Anagrams

• multiseat, mutilates, ultimates

Esperanto

Adverb

stimulate

1. present adverbial passive participle of stimuli

Latin

Verb

stimulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of stimulō