stoke

IPA(Pronunciation)

/stəʊk/

Verb

transitive broadly intransitive

Japanese Meaning

（他動詞）炉や火床に燃料を加え、火を活性化させる / （他動詞）感情や行動を奮い立たせる、刺激する

To keep the boiler running, the engineer had to stoke the furnace every few hours.

ボイラーを稼働させ続けるために、技師は数時間ごとに炉に石炭をくべなければならなかった。

Sense（1）

(transitive) To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.

Sense（2）

(transitive, by extension) To encourage a behavior or emotion.

Stoking the star maker machinery behind the popular song

Sense（3）

(intransitive) To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.

stokes

（ present singular third-person ）

stoking

（ participle present ）

stoked

（ participle past ）

stoked

（ past ）