Stimulate: alternatives and connections

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message con…

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Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

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To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.

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Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

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To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.

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To call out; to summon forth.

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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

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To bring forth young.

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate.

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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm.

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To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

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To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

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To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.

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To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.

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To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.

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To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.

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Created; composed; begotten.

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To cut off; to separate.

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To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- oft…

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To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at.…

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Lifted up; raised; elevated.

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To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help…

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To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire.

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To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to ev…

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To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.

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To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

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To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.

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A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.

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To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.

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Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; --…

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Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.

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The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.

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To supply with nerves; as, the heart is innervated by pneumogastric and sympathetic branches.

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To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

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To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as to instigate one to a crime.

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Intoxicated.

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To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to.

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To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company…

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To render null and void.

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To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.

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To push or shake with the elbow or hand; to jostle; esp., to push or touch, in order to give notice, to excite one's attention, or to warn.

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A kind of loose jacket for men.

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To care; to desire.

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One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

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A basket.

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To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

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A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks.

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To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintai…

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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive.

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To attach, as by a bond.

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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives.

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A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.

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A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note.

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To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out.

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To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite.

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To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a…

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To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to…

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To invigorate anew.

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To render young again.

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To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew.

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To return.

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To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.

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To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.

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To cause to revive.

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To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

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To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.

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The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of prope…

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To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.

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The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

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A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or…

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To leap; to jump.

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To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.

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To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressur…

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To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.

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A warbling; a trill.

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To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too…

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To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather.

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To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock.

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of Vibrate

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To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate.

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To rub or on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening; to sharpen by attrition; as, to whet a knife.

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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Tending to excite; exciting.

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Tending to excite; exciting.

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The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.

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The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.

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Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.

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Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.

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The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.

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The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.

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of Induce

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of Induce

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The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.

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The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.

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Serving to stimulate.

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Serving to stimulate.

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To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.

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That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.

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To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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Jet, the mineral.

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To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.

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of Have

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To lead in; to introduce.

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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

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obs. p. p. of Shake.

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To change the place of in any manner; to move.

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