0 to add fuel to a large fire and move the fuel around with a stick so that it burns well and produces a lot of heat: --
1 to add fuel to a large enclosed fire and move the fuel around so that it burns well and produces a lot of heat: --
2 to encourage negative ideas or feelings about a particular situation: --
He spoke about the difficulties of stoking and banking boilers.
Such a combination would of course only help to make the problem worse—by running up huge deficits and further stoking the economy.
First, he stoked up the economy to achieve relative boom conditions at a time of the previous general election.
What it would really do would be to give opportunity for controversy to be stoked up on one side or the other.
If the facts are not fully disclosed, the public response will be fear, which will then be stoked up by ignorance and innuendo.
We inherited an economy in which they had stoked up inflation.
Special efforts should be made to prevent smoke when stoking.
Human degradation on this totally unacceptable scale stokes up the fires of inmate discontent and may bring about a breakdown of the penal system.