Usually means: Increase or intensify excitement, enthusiasm.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word stoke:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. stoke: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stoke: Merriam-Webster
  3. stoke: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stoke: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stoke: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stoke: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stoke, stoke: Wordnik
  8. stoke: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Stoke, stoke: Wiktionary
  10. stoke: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stoke: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stoke: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stoke: Dictionary.com
  14. stoke: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. stoke: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Stoke: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Stoke: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. stoke: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. stoke: Rhymezone
  20. Stoke: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. stoke: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. stoke: FreeDictionary.org
  23. stoke: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. stoke: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stoke (disambiguation), stoke: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. stoke: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Stoke (disambiguation), stoke: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. stoke: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stoke: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stoke, stoke, stoke: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Stoke, stoke: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See stoked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To poke, pierce, thrust.
noun:  An act of poking, piercing, thrusting
verb:  (transitive) To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To encourage a behavior or emotion.
verb:  (intransitive) To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.
noun:  A village on Hayling Island, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7102).
noun:  A village and civil parish in Medway borough, Kent, England; the parish includes Lower Stoke and Middle Stoke (OS grid ref TQ8275).
noun:  An eastern suburb of Coventry, West Midlands, England (there are a few places in Coventry with other affixes of Stoke) (OS grid ref SP3679).
noun:  A civil parish in Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England.
noun:  An outer suburb of Nelson, New Zealand, not far from Richmond, named after Stoke-by-Nayland in England.
noun:  (physics) Misconstruction of stokes (unit of kinematic viscosity) [A unit of kinematic viscosity in the CGS system of units. 1 stokes = 1 cm²/s]
noun:  Short for Stoke-on-Trent, a city in Staffordshire, England. [The largest city in Staffordshire, England; also known as Stoke.]

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