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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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to encourage bad ideas or feelings in a lot of people: He's been accused of stoking up racial hatred in the region. Rumours of an emergency meeting of the finance committee stoked the atmosphere of crisis. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Fuels. alcohol fuel. biofuelled. biomaterial. briquette. charcoal. CHP. coalification. fuel rod.
The meaning of STOKE is to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel. How to use stoke in a sentence.
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.
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.
2 meanings: 1. to feed, stir, and tend (a fire, furnace, etc) 2. to tend the furnace of; act as a stoker for.... Click for more definitions.
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.
