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
- verb To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
- verb To incite to action; to motivate.
excite — full definition
- verb To stir up strong feelings in someone, especially enthusiasm or eagerness.
- verb In physics, to push an electron up to a higher energy level, or to energize a magnet so it produces a field.