stoked; stoking
1
: to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel
2
: to feed abundantly
3
: to increase the activity, intensity, or amount of
limiting the number of cars available … will help stoke demand for the car—
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: to stir up or tend a fire (as in a furnace) : supply a furnace with fuel
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Examples of stoke in a Sentence
The engineer stoked the coals.
The new ad campaign has helped to stoke sales.
Poor revenue figures have stoked concerns about possible layoffs.
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And with President Donald Trump's tariff threats highlighting the risk of that dependence, the success of the $24 billion Trans Mountain expansion is stoking Canada's desire to further decouple from its unpredictable neighbor -- and play a larger role in global oil markets.
—Robert Tuttle Bloomberg News (wpns), arkansasonline.com, 9 Feb. 2025
And as McCarthy’s activities stoked fears of anticommunist subversion, thousands of additional Americans, by some estimates, lost their jobs, their freedom to speak or travel freely, and even their lives for being suspected of left-wing beliefs or associations.
—Made By History, TIME, 9 Feb. 2025
In fact, Zoe goes so far as to interrupt Grant’s one-on-one conversation with Juliana a few moments later as well, which only stokes the flames.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2025
And even when there is no legal grounds to strip employees of their right to equity and inclusion, Trump’s grandstanding has stoked enough uncertainty that his rhetoric is working.
—Brea Baker, refinery29.com, 3 Feb. 2025
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Robert Tuttle Bloomberg News (wpns), arkansasonline.com, 9 Feb. 2025
And as McCarthy’s activities stoked fears of anticommunist subversion, thousands of additional Americans, by some estimates, lost their jobs, their freedom to speak or travel freely, and even their lives for being suspected of left-wing beliefs or associations.
—Made By History, TIME, 9 Feb. 2025
In fact, Zoe goes so far as to interrupt Grant’s one-on-one conversation with Juliana a few moments later as well, which only stokes the flames.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2025
And even when there is no legal grounds to strip employees of their right to equity and inclusion, Trump’s grandstanding has stoked enough uncertainty that his rhetoric is working.
—Brea Baker, refinery29.com, 3 Feb. 2025
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“Stoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stoke. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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stoke
verb
stoked; stoking
1
: to stir up or tend (as a fire)
2
: to supply (as a furnace) with fuel
3
: to feed plentifully
stoker
noun
Medical Definition
stoke
noun
: the cgs unit of kinematic viscosity being that of a fluid which has a viscosity of one poise and a density of one gram per cubic centimeter
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