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• “The book stimulated her imagination“
• “This play stimulates“

Synonyms

• excite arouse or elicit a feeling ; act as a stimulant; stir feelings in; cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; stimulate sexually; stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; raise to a higher energy level; produce a magnetic field in

• “cause to act in a specified manner“
• “The ads induced me to buy a VCR“
• “My children finally got me to buy a computer“
• “My wife made me buy a new sofa“

Synonyms

• induce cause to arise; cause to do; cause to occur rapidly; reason or establish by induction ; produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes
• cause give rise to; cause to do; events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something; a justification for something existing or happening; a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results ; a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
• have a person who possesses great material wealth ; have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense; have as a feature; go through (mental or physical states or experiences); have ownership or possession of; cause to move; serve oneself to, or consume regularly; have a personal or business relationship with someone; organize or be responsible for; have left; be confronted with; undergo; suffer from; cause to do; receive willingly something given or offered; get something; undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); achieve a point or goal; cause to be born; have sex with
• get a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent ; come into the possession of something concrete or abstract; enter or assume a certain state or condition; cause to move; receive a specified treatment (abstract); reach a destination; go or come after and bring or take back; go through (mental or physical states or experiences); take vengeance on or get even; achieve a point or goal; cause to do; succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase; come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; communicate with a place or person; give certain properties to something; move into a desired direction of discourse; grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; attract and fix; reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot; reach by calculation; acquire as a result of some effort or action; purchase; perceive by hearing; suffer from the receipt of; receive as a retribution or punishment; leave immediately; reach and board; irritate; evoke an emotional response; apprehend and reproduce accurately; earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher; overcome or destroy; be a mystery or bewildering to; take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); make (offspring) by reproduction
• make a recognizable kind; the act of mixing cards haphazardly ; engage in; give certain properties to something; make or cause to be or to become; cause to do; give rise to; create or manufacture a man-made product; make, formulate, or derive in the mind; compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way; create by artistic means; earn on some commercial or business transaction; create or design, often in a certain way; to compose or represent; reach a goal; be or be capable of being changed or made into; make by shaping or bringing together constituents; perform or carry out; make by combining materials and parts; change from one form into another; act in a certain way so as to acquire; charge with a function; achieve a point or goal; reach a destination, either real or abstract; institute, enact, or establish; carry out or commit; form by assembling individuals or constituents; organize or be responsible for; put in order or neaten; head into a specified direction; have a bowel movement; undergo fabrication or creation; be suitable for; add up to; amount to; constitute the essence of; appear to begin an activity; proceed along a path; reach in time; gather and light the materials for; prepare for eating by applying heat; induce to have sex; assure the success of; represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; consider as being; calculate as being; cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable; favor the development of; develop into; behave in a certain way; eliminate urine

• “These stories shook the community“
• “the civil war shook the country“

Synonyms

• shake building material used as siding or roofing ; frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream ; a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it ; grasping and shaking a person’s hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) ; a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement ; causing to move repeatedly from side to side ; move or cause to move back and forth; move with or as if with a tremor; shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively; move back and forth or sideways; undermine or cause to waver; stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; get rid of; bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking; shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
• shake up shock physically; organize anew; shake; stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; change the arrangement or position of ; make fuller by shaking
• excite arouse or elicit a feeling ; act as a stimulant; stir feelings in; cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; stimulate sexually; stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; raise to a higher energy level; produce a magnetic field in
• stir a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event; emotional agitation and excitement ; a rapid active commotion ; move an implement through; move very slightly; stir feelings in; stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; affect emotionally; summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; to begin moving; mix or add by stirring

• “Coffee and tea stimulate me“
• “This herbal infusion doesn’t stimulate“

Synonyms

• arouse call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); stop sleeping; summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; cause to be alert and energetic; cause to become awake or conscious; to begin moving; stimulate sexually
• brace prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult ; support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace; support by bracing ; cause to be alert and energetic; a support that steadies or strengthens something else; two items of the same kind ; a set of two similar things considered as a unit ; either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material ; a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it ; elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural) ; an appliance that corrects dental irregularities ; a carpenter’s tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring ; a structural member used to stiffen a framework
• energize cause to be alert and energetic; raise to a higher energy level
• energise raise to a higher energy level; cause to be alert and energetic
• perk up gain or regain energy; cause to be alert and energetic

• “the infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions“

Synonyms

• induce cause to arise; cause to do; cause to occur rapidly; reason or establish by induction ; produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes
• rush not accepting reservations ; done under pressure; move hurridly; attack suddenly ; urge to an unnatural speed; act or move at high speed; run with the ball, in football ; cause to move fast or to rush or race; cause to occur rapidly; the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; a sudden forceful flow ; grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems ; physician and American Revolutionary leader; the swift release of a store of affective force; a sudden burst of activity; (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line
• hasten act or move at high speed; move hurridly; speed up the progress of; cause to occur rapidly

• “stimulate my appetite“
• “excite the audience“
• “stir emotions“

Synonyms

• excite arouse or elicit a feeling ; act as a stimulant; stir feelings in; cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; stimulate sexually; stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; raise to a higher energy level; produce a magnetic field in
• stir a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event; emotional agitation and excitement ; a rapid active commotion ; move an implement through; move very slightly; stir feelings in; stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; affect emotionally; summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; to begin moving; mix or add by stirring

Synonyms

• provoke call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); evoke or provoke to appear or occur; provide the needed stimulus for ; annoy continually or chronically