Meaning

2 senses

  1. To stimulate again.

  2. To "awaken" a previously lost or hidden memory (engram) from the past, in (a person).

    The sound of firecrackers restimulated the war veteran, and he felt tired for several days after.

Forms

restimulates, restimulating, restimulated, restimulated
Base formrestimulate · to restimulate
3rd person singularrestimulates
Present participlerestimulating
Past simplerestimulated
Past participlerestimulated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyrestimulate
he, she, itrestimulates

Past simpleLesson

all personsrestimulated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave restimulated
he, she, ithas restimulated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill restimulate

Word family

1 related words
Derivedrestimulation

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
restaterestaurantA1restaurateurrestfulrestlessrestlesslyrestock

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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