stimulates
- 1Third-person singular simple present of stimulate.
Caffeine stimulates the nervous system and keeps people alert for hours.
Tax relief stimulates investment in struggling rural communities.
Note
The form a single subject takes in the present: one drug, one policy, one teacher. Plural subjects and first- or second-person subjects use the bare stimulate (the drugs stimulate, we stimulate). Both of the verb's meanings run through it: spurring people or markets into action, and rousing an organism to functional activity. In each, the verb normally takes a direct object, because something always stimulates something.
stimulates is a form of stimulate
stimulate, verb: To encourage someone or something into greater activity or effort. Full entry
- Forms
- stimulatestimulates he/she/itstimulating -ing formstimulated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- stimulate → stimulates: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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