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STOKE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

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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