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STOKE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
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))
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