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Stoke
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(stokes, stoking, stoked) 1. If you stoke a fire, you add coal or wood to it to keep it burning. She was stoking the stove with sticks of maple. VERB: V n • Stoke up means the same as stoke. He stoked up the fire in the hearth. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron) 2. If you stoke something such as a feeling, you cause it to be felt more strongly. These demands are helping to stoke fears of civil war. VERB: V n • Stoke up means the same as stoke. He has sent his proposals in the hope of stoking up interest for the idea. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)
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1.
verb (~d; stoking) Etymology: Dutch ~n; akin to Middle Dutch stuken to push Date: 1683 transitive verb 1. to poke or stir up (as a fire) ; supply with fuel 2. to feed abundantly 3. to increase the activity, intensity, or amount of limiting the number of cars available…will help ~ demand for the car — Keith Naughton intransitive verb to stir up or tend a fire (as in a furnace) ; supply a furnace with fuel STOKED adjective Date: 1965 slang being in an enthusiastic or exhilarated state ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. (often foll. by up) 1 a tr. feed and tend (a fire or furnace etc.). b intr. act as a stoker. 2 intr. colloq. consume food, esp. steadily and in large quantities. Etymology: back-form. f. STOKER ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. (часто stoke up) поддерживать огонь (в топке); забрасывать топливо, загружать топку; шуровать, топить 2. совать в рот одну ложку за другой 3. запасаться he stoked up with food and drink for thirty six hours —- он запасся едой и питьем на тридцать шесть часов ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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up а) coll. хорошо поесть; Wed better stoke up at the inn, as weve a long way to go and dont know when we shall next eat. STOKE v. поддерживать огонь (в топке); забрасывать топливо; шуровать; топить (тж. stoke up); The fire needs stoking up. - stoke up ...Англо-русский словарь
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also stoke up ~ v to add more coal or wood to a fire used for cooking or heating (stoke sth with sth) (Stoke the furnace with wood.) stoke up phr v 1 to add more coal or wood to a fire (stoke sth up) (Get the fire stoked up.) 2 to stoke up fear/anger etc to make a lot of people feel frightened etc about something (The leaflets stoked up a lot of fears of an invasion.) 3 stoke up on/with a) to eat a lot of food, for example because you will not eat again for a long time (We stoked up on hot soup before going out in the snow.) b) to buy a lot of something that you need (stoking up on warm clothing) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1683 (stoker is 1660), from Du. stoken "to stoke," from M.Du. stoken "to poke, thrust," related to stoc "stick, stump," from P.Gmc. *stok-, variant of *stik-, *stek- "pierce, prick." Stoked "enthusiastic" first recorded 1963. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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