stimulate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stimulātus, perfect passive participle of stimulō (“goad on”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin stimulus (“goad”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɪmjʊleɪt/

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Verb

1. To encourage into action.
2. To arouse an organism to functional activity.

Synonyms

• (encourage): encourage, induce, incite, provoke; see also Thesaurus:incite
• (arouse): animate, arouse, energize, energise, excite, perk up; see also Thesaurus:enliven

Antonyms

• (arouse): de-energize, sedate, stifle

Derived terms

• biostimulate
• costimulate
• destimulate
• electrostimulate
• hyperstimulate
• instimulate
• microstimulate
• overstimulate
• restimulate
• superstimulate
• understimulate

 

Related terms

• stimulant
• stimulation
• stimulator
• stimulatory
• stimulus

 

Translations

to encourage into action

• Armenian: գրգռել (hy) (grgṙel)
• Catalan: estimular (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刺激 (zh) (cìjī)

• Czech: podnítit
• Dutch: stimuleren (nl), aansporen (nl), prikkelen (nl)
• Esperanto: stimuli
• Finnish: stimuloida (fi), yllyttää (fi), ärsyttää (fi)
• French: stimuler (fr)
• German: stimulieren (de)
• Greek: παρακινώ (el) (parakinó), παροτρύνω (el) (parotrýno)

  Ancient: ἐρεθίζω (erethízō)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: elősegít (hu)
• Italian: stimolare (it)
• Japanese: 刺激する (ja) (しげきする, shigeki suru)
• Kurdish:
• Latin: commoveō (la)
• Maltese: ħeġġeġ
• Maori: whakahohe, whakaihiihi, whakahihiko, whakamanawa
• Norman: stînmuler
• Portuguese: estimular (pt), incentivar (pt)
• Romanian: a stimula (ro)
• Russian: стимули́ровать (ru) (stimulírovatʹ)
• Spanish: estimular (es)
• Swedish: egga (sv), reta (sv), sporra (sv)

to arouse an organism to functional activity

• Albanian: stimuloj (sq)
• Armenian: գրգռել (hy) (grgṙel)
• Catalan: estimular (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刺激 (zh) (cìjī)

• Dutch: stimuleren (nl), prikkelen (nl)
• Esperanto: stimuli
• Finnish: stimuloida (fi), kiihottaa (fi)
• French: stimuler (fr)
• German: stimulieren (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: διεγείρω (el) (diegeíro)
• Italian: stimulare
• Japanese: 刺激する (ja) (しげきする, shigeki suru)
• Norman: stînmuler
• Portuguese: estimular (pt)
• Romanian: a stimula (ro)
• Russian: стимули́ровать (ru) (stimulírovatʹ)
• Spanish: estimular (es)
• Swedish: ge näring åt, pigga upp (sv), stimulera (sv), väcka (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} merangsang (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} stimular

Anagrams

• multiseat, mutilates, ultimates

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Esperanto

Adverb

stimulate

1. present adverbial passive participle of stimuli

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) stimulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of stimulō