Stimulate vs Incense - What's the difference?
stimulate | incense | Synonyms |
To encourage into action.
To arouse an organism to functional activity.
To anger or infuriate.
(archaic) To incite, stimulate.
To offer incense to.
To perfume with, or as with, incense.
* Marston
(obsolete) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.
* Chapman
Stimulate is a synonym of incense.
As verbs the difference between stimulate and incense
is that stimulate is to encourage into action while incense is to anger or infuriate.As a noun incense is
a perfume used in the rites of various religions.stimulate
English
Verb
(stimulat)Synonyms
* (encourage) encourage, induce, provoke * (arouse) animate, arouse, energize, energise, excite, perk upAntonyms
* (arouse) de-energize, sedate, stifleAnagrams
* * ----incense
English
Derived terms
* incense boat * incense cedarVerb
- I think it would incense him to learn the truth.
- (Chaucer)
- Incensed with wanton sweetes.
- Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labour to incense / Thy glorious heap of funeral.