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
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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Reports that officers have been detaining people based on their appearance and that legal U.S. residents have been among those arrested have stoked fear that no person of color is safe, Oronia says.
—Andrea Hsu, NPR, 22 Aug. 2025
His absence, and every subsequent comment, stoked a saga that will return to the fore next week when Pochettino names his roster for September’s home friendlies against South Korea and Japan.
—Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
The key to updating the look for this decade is a pointy toe, which has also been gone for long enough to stoke our collective nostalgia.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 21 Aug. 2025
That this political debate is happening in the midst of war has only stoked the anger of many of those who serve.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
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Andrea Hsu, NPR, 22 Aug. 2025
His absence, and every subsequent comment, stoked a saga that will return to the fore next week when Pochettino names his roster for September’s home friendlies against South Korea and Japan.
—Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
The key to updating the look for this decade is a pointy toe, which has also been gone for long enough to stoke our collective nostalgia.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 21 Aug. 2025
That this political debate is happening in the midst of war has only stoked the anger of many of those who serve.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Stoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stoke. Accessed 30 Aug. 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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