verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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You'd better tuck in, stoke up your energy supplies.
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Much of the taxpayers' investment has merely stoked up inflation in land prices, effectively closing agriculture to all but the millionaire.
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It stokes up the pressure for the two teams' clash in East Anglia on 5 April.
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Their employers were quick to stoke up popular envy through the press if players even temporarily forgot their good fortune.
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So they tended to have chronic balance of payments surpluses, which stoked up inflationary pressure by maintaining high demand for goods.
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Valerie's absence allowed her to stoke up all sorts of guilt and self-pity and she did not want to forfeit that.
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It's heating up here already, yes it's stoking up here nicely for the scorch-riots of August.
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The investment financed by this borrowing stoked up demand for commodities, permitting sales to be maintained at higher and higher prices.
■ NOUN
anger
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No, that would simply stoke her anger to further excess.
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She lay there and seethed, stoking her anger .
fire
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That, and unwanted copies of the Serpell report on Britain's railways was something to stoke the fires with.
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And recent developments have stoked the fires of Cooperstown conversation.
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Since then he has been stoking his fire with fitness and form re-ignited.
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Occasionally, the vendors stoked the fire and rearranged the coals, which glowed in the hiss of the orange flames.
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He stoked the fire so that it flared, then reached behind him for a pouch of thin leather which contained charred bones.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few embarrassments are also smoldering, assiduously stoked by the Gramm camp.
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It stokes up the pressure for the two teams' clash in East Anglia on 5 April.
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It has stoked catastrophic business failures and contributed to increased unemployment.
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Much of the taxpayers' investment has merely stoked up inflation in land prices, effectively closing agriculture to all but the millionaire.
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Since then he has been stoking his fire with fitness and form re-ignited.
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That, and unwanted copies of the Serpell report on Britain's railways was something to stoke the fires with.
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Their employers were quick to stoke up popular envy through the press if players even temporarily forgot their good fortune.
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We stoke the coals, put on a pot of potatoes, and slap five pork chops on to the grill.