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• v  act as a stimulant
  The book stimulated her imagination
• v  cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
• v  stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
• v  cause to be alert and energetic
• v  cause to occur rapidly
• v  stir feelings in
• v  provide the needed stimulus for
• s  emotionally aroused

• Industrial accidents stimulated the demand.
• Today he had scribbled out his theory that because watches in every pocket and clocks in every factory and railroad station had stimulated in people an acute awareness of time .
• The authors claim that the G spot was stimulated in all the women examined.

• stimulate
• excite
• induce
• cause
• have
• get
• make
• shake
• shake up
• stir
• arouse
• brace
• energize
• energise
• perk up
• rush
• hasten
• provoke
• stirred
• stirred up
• aroused

• stifle
• sedate
• de-energize
• de-energise

News & Articles

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• Letters to the editor
  Observations point to cruise ships polluting Jerrold Weinstock's letter in the May 27 issue of The Citizen has stimulated me to share something that has been bothering me for many months. For 13... read more
  June 21, 2013 - Key West Citizen
• Comedy funny and stimulates brain
  Comedy funny and stimulates brain Times Union Copyright 2013 Times Union. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 7:48 am, Friday, June 21, 2013 Would you rather watch a good movie comedy with lots of laughs or a good movie comedy that stimulated your gray matter? Dear Stephen: I'll take the comedy, because comedy is mentally ...
  June 21, 2013 - Albany Times Union
• Excellence in education isn't a gimmick
  Much of the excellence in American medicine dates to a groundbreaking 1910 study that stimulated medical schools to reshape how doctors were trained.
  June 20, 2013 - Bristol Herald Courier

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in WGBA-TV
  We stimulated the economy, got it moving again, got it growing again, we have to, in a gradual way, reduce spending but do so in a way that doesn't hurt people,he said. "That's a challenge."
• Winston Moss in International Herald Tribune
  You always want to be stimulated,Moss said. "You always want to do more and grow. I think the thing I appreciate about Mike the most is that he's given me the opportunity to do just a little more each year."
• Felipe Perez Roque in FOXNews
  It's an effort to prevent a phenomenon that neither the Mexican government or the Cuban government are really responsible for because illegal migration from Cuba is artificially stimulated from the United States,Perez Roque said, hours before...