Synonyms of stoking

stoking

verb

present participle of stoke

as in increasing

to make greater in size, amount, or number

hopefully, offering stock options will stoke workers' commitment to the company

Synonyms & Similar Words

• increasing
• expanding
• accelerating
• boosting
• augmenting
• raising
• multiplying
• extending
• escalating
• intensifying
• enhancing
• reinforcing
• amplifying
• swelling
• enlarging
• adding (to)
• strengthening
• maximizing
• upping
• compounding
• hyping
• aggrandizing
• building up
• pumping up
• heightening
• supersizing
• inflating
• supplementing
• jumping
• skyrocketing
• spiking
• developing
• prolonging
• booming
• stretching
• lengthening
• distending
• bumping (up)
• complementing
• elongating
• dilating
• drawing out
• protracting
• ratcheting (up)
• magnifying
• accumulating
• blowing up
• amassing
• collecting
• fleshing (out)
• racheting (up)
• beefing (up)
• following up
• parlaying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reducing
• decreasing
• diminishing
• lowering
• lessening
• dwindling
• downsizing
• subtracting (from)
• abating
• curtailing
• shortening
• abridging
• de-escalating
• contracting
• compressing
• abbreviating
• condensing
• minifying
• constricting
• retrenching
• cutting back

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of stoking

Once again, international organizations removed Hamas and their share of the blame for Gaza’s suffering from the conversation, stoking the anti-Israel narrative. — Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2026

Sony clearly wants to thread the needle of appropriately characterizing the new film while stoking audience nostalgia for its counterpart. — Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026

But they’ve never been litigated — and the developments are already stoking fears of diminishing Fed independence as the central bank weighs whether to raise interest rates at its next meeting. — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Sharon [Waxman, a contributing writer] said the culture-war stuff was dead, which was a smart way of stoking it all over again. — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

While shocked at Sharon’s death, reports suggested that most people didn’t panic about violence until Manson followers Krenwinkel, Watson and Leslie Van Houten murdered the LaBiancas, stoking fear in the general public. — Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026

Its rise and fall was dramatic, with a deadly riot in 1880 stoking anti-Chinese sentiment nationwide. — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2026

These days, Wolfson and team are stoking fires inside the Senate Street building, not putting them out, for a giant wood-burning oven is the kitchen centerpiece. — Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 4 Aug. 2026

Trump’s Truth Social is launching a premium ‘Truth API’ that sells Wall Street traders split-second early access to his market-moving posts, stoking new criticisms of insider trading and self-enrichment in the Oval Office. — Bernard Condon, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2026