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- Dictionarystoke/stōk/
verb
- 1. add coal or other solid fuel to (a fire, furnace, boiler, etc.): "he stoked up the barbecue"
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The meaning of STOKE is to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel. How to use stoke in a sentence.
STOKE definition: 1. to add fuel to a large fire and move the fuel around with a stick so that it burns well and…. Learn more.
Stoke definition: to poke, stir up, and feed (a fire).. See examples of STOKE used in a sentence.
to add fuel to a large fire and move the fuel around with a stick so that it burns well and produces a lot of heat: Once the fire had been stoked up, the room began to get warm. to encourage bad ideas or feelings in a lot of people: He's been accused of stoking up racial hatred in the region.
To stoke is to poke a fire and fuel it so that it burns higher. Stoke can also mean "incite" — a principal's impassive silence in the face of requests for more tater tots might stoke the flames of student anger. When a surfer says, "I am so stoked," it means she is excited — the fire of enthusiasm is burning hotter.
stoke something (up) to make something increase or develop more quickly. They were accused of stoking the crisis. The measures would stoke up inflation. These developments helped stoke the credit boom. Increased borrowing was stoking up a consumer boom.
stoke in American English. (stoʊk ) noun. a basic unit in the CGS system, equal to the viscosity of a fluid, measured in poises, divided by the density of the fluid, measured in grams per cubic centimeter (0.0001 square meter per second ): abbrev. St.
