STOKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stoke mean? 

• STOKE (verb)
  The verb STOKE has 1 sense:

1. stir up or tend; of a fire

  Familiarity information: STOKE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOKE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they stoke    ... he / she / it stokes   
Past simple: stoked   
Past participle: stoked   
-ing form: stoking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stir up or tend; of a fire

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "stoke" is one way to...):

tend (manage or run)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

stoker (a mechanical device for stoking a furnace)

stoker (a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship))

 Context examples 

In contrast, immune cells recognize disease-causing bacteria with classical MHC molecules, which lead to the production of T cells that stoke inflammation.

(Scientists find microbes on the skin of mice promote tissue healing, immunity, National Institutes of Health)

“Wait,” said he, “I will just stoke up the fire a little for you.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then he stoked the fire, blew it, and set them all round it to warm themselves.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)