🤩 Very excited 🔥 Added fuel

to stoked

2 6.5

To add fuel to a fire so it burns more strongly

verb
/stoʊkt/

: avivar

He stoked the fire to keep it burning through the night.

But as they turned their ire, that was stoked by the president himself.

Examples

After adding more logs, she stoked the fireplace until the flames roared.
To ensure the campfire lasted, he regularly stoked it with dry branches.
It seems so stoked that we literally stoked the fire.

Synonyms

to fuel

vsto stoked

225 4.3

To make feelings, arguments or actions stronger

refers to caring for a literal fire rather than increasing feelings

to feed the fire

vsto stoked

6 4.8

To put extra fuel on a fire or make a disagreement worse

focuses on tending literal fire rather than worsening social conflicts

to stoke

vsto stoked

6 5.6

To add fuel or stir a fire to make it burn hotter

is the same meaning but used as a past or participle form

to stoke up

vsto stoked

Informal

5 5.4

To add fuel to a fire or make energy and excitement stronger

keeps to tending a fire rather than boosting general energy

to blow the coals

vsto stoked

1 7.5

Make a fire burn hotter by blowing air on hot coals

adds fuel or tends the flames rather than just supplying air

Antonyms

to extinguish

39 4.4

Stop a fire, candle, or other light from burning

How Strong

to blaze

27 3.4

to stoked

2 6.5

to feed

445 1.8

to tend

162 1.0

Surface Forms

stoke infinitive

stoked past

stoked past participle

stoking present participle

stokes third person singular

Morphology

stoked = stoke (transparent) = stoke + ed

Regular past/past-participle formation from the verb 'stoke'; the meaning 'added fuel to a fire' is the literal, direct result of that derivation.

Etymology

Stoked is the past form of stoke, which originally meant 'to add fuel to a fire' or 'tend it'. That's why to stoke a campfire means you feed and stir it so the flames burn more strongly.