Synonyms

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2. animate, reanimate, whet, invigorate, motivate, Inf. spark, Inf. psych up, Inf. turn on; inspire, inspirit, electrify, galvanize, rally, revive, alert, vivify, bestir, awaken, waken, wake up; enliven, liven up, shake up, sting, jolt, jog.
3. encourage, abet, embolden, nerve, boost, build up, buck up, pluck up; induce, impel, compel, constrain, press, move, force, force along; hustle, drive, propel, hound, whip, lash, flog; persuade, influence, dispose, prevail upon, sway, ply, coax, wheedle; tempt, lure, inveigle, beguile.

stimulus, n. 1. incentive, impetus, fillip, provocative, motive, whet, SI. shot in the arm; goad, prick, prod, poke, spur, jog, jolt, lash, whip, sting; impulse, urge, drive, push, itch; dictate, call; incitement, inducement, instigation, excitement, provocation, motivation, oestrus; encouragement, abetment, egging on, putting up to; dare, taunt, gibe; enticement, temptation, allurement, beguilement, inveiglement, persuasion.
2. Physiology, excitant, quickener. See - stimulant (def 1).

sting, v. 1. prick, nettle, bite, nip, snip, pinch; prick, stick, stab, pierce, wound, envenom; smart, burn, chafe, grate, rasp, gall, irritate; gripe, grind, gnaw.
2. hurt, pain, injure, cut to the quick, excruciate, rack, wring; grieve, aggrieve, distress, afflict, harrow, anguish, agonize, torment, torture.
3. goad, prod, spur, prompt; push, drive, propel, motivate, move; incite, provoke, agitate, excite, arouse, rouse, whip up, work up, stir up, enflame, inflame, fire up, kindle, touch off; exasperate, exacerbate, ruffle, roil, aggravate.
4. Slang, cheat, overcharge, SI. soak; gull, fleece, swindle, mulct, Inf gyp.
-n. 5. prick, prickle, bite, nip, pinch; injury, wound, cut, scratch, puncture, stab; sore, burn; smart, pain, hurt, tingling, tingle.
6. shock, blow, stroke; bane, curse, poison, venom, worm, canker, blight, scourge; affliction, torment, torture, agony, anguish, grievance, woe, distress; trial, tribulation, bitter cup or pill, cross, load, burden; bitterness, wormwood, gall and wormwood; rub, irritation, vexation, thorn in one's flesh or side.
7. goad, stimulus, stimulant, incentive, motive; spur, incitement, inducement, instigation, provocation, egging on.

stingy, adj. 1. niggardly, miserly, parsimonious, carking, skinflinty; penurious, mean, tight, tight-fisted, close-fisted; cheap, SI. chintzy, moneygrubbing, grasping. Rare, illiberal, cheeseparing; scrimping, penny-pinching, grudging, begrudging, ungenerous, stinting; thrifty, frugal, sparing, chary; economical, prudent, saving, penny-wise.
2. scanty, meager, skimpy, scrimpy, scant; meanly small, beggarly, paltry, poor, piddling, Inf. measly, mere; slight, slender, narrow, puny, very little; insufficient, inadequate, short, shy; insubstantial, nominal, minute, negligible.

stink, v. 1. reek, smell, smell to high heaven, smell like a goat, assault the nostrils, Inf. knock out.
2. be in disrepute, be in disgrace, have a bad name, have one's name be mud, have a blot on one's escutcheon or record, lose caste or face.
-n. 3. stench, fetor, malodor, rancidity, foul odor, strong or gamy smell, body odor, Inf. B.O.; halitosis, bad breath, mephitis, miasma, effluvium, fume, taint; fetidness, fetidity, malodorousness, smelliness, stinkiness; gaminess, rancidness, putrescence, putrescency, putridness, putridity, rottenness; rankness, noisomeness, foulness.