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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With access to new archival materials and legal files, Thompson looks at the decades-long reverberations of the shooting, from Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post that stoked fear in Americans across the country to the Black boys who were all but forgotten.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
The size of the ash mound also suggests that the fire burned anywhere from several hours to several days, which wouldn’t have been possible unless the blaze was actively refueled and stoked, Sawchuk added.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
People are sick and tired of the poison and divisiveness stoked by our politicians and by social media.
—Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 6 Jan. 2026
Double jams Trevon Brazile got the home crowd stoked with his first pair of buckets, both of which came after misses by teammates with his work in the offensive glass space.
—Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2026
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Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
The size of the ash mound also suggests that the fire burned anywhere from several hours to several days, which wouldn’t have been possible unless the blaze was actively refueled and stoked, Sawchuk added.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
People are sick and tired of the poison and divisiveness stoked by our politicians and by social media.
—Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 6 Jan. 2026
Double jams Trevon Brazile got the home crowd stoked with his first pair of buckets, both of which came after misses by teammates with his work in the offensive glass space.
—Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2026
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“Stoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stoke. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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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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