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innostaa — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • actuate verb To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
  • excite verb To stir up strong feelings in someone, especially enthusiasm or eagerness.
  • flush verb To clean by flooding with water, especially a toilet.
  • inspire verb To fill someone with the motivation or creative energy to do something.
  • move verb To change position or location.
  • strengthen verb To make something stronger, more solid, or more effective.
  • tickle verb To touch someone lightly and repeatedly in a way that causes laughter, twitching, or discomfort.
  • wind-up noun An act of teasing someone by telling them something untrue to see how they react, or the false story itself.

Senses

innostaa is used for these senses in English:

  • actuate (transitive) To incite to action; to motivate.
  • excite (transitive) To stir the emotions of; to cause to feel excitement.
  • flush To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
  • inspire (transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
  • inspire (transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.
  • move (intransitive) To act; to take action; to begin to act
  • strengthen (transitive) To empower; to give moral strength to; to encourage; to enhearten.
  • tickle (transitive) To cause delight or amusement in.

actuate — full definition

  1. verb To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
  2. verb To incite to action; to motivate.

excite — full definition

  1. verb To stir up strong feelings in someone, especially enthusiasm or eagerness.
  2. verb In physics, to push an electron up to a higher energy level, or to energize a magnet so it produces a field.

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