The scandal has stoked public outrage.stokestoke /stəʊk $ stoʊk/ (also stoke up) verb [transitive] 
I stoked the furnace for the night.2to cause something to increase: Rising oil prices stoked inflation.stoke fear/anger/envy etc The scandal has stoked public outrage.stoke up phrasal verb1 stoke something ↔ up to add more coal or wood to a fire: We kept the fire stoked up high on cold nights.2stoke up something if something stokes up fear, anger etc, it makes a lot of people feel frightened etc: The leaflets stoked up fears of an invasion.3stoke up on/with something to eat a lot of food, for example because you will not eat again for a long time: We stoked up on hot soup before going out in the snow.
WORD ORIGINstoke
Origin:
1600-1700 Dutch stokenVERB TABLE
stoke
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | stoke |
| he, she, it | stokes | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | stoked |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have stoked |
| he, she, it | has stoked | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had stoked |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will stoke |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have stoked |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am stoking |
| he, she, it | is stoking | |
| you, we, they | are stoking | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was stoking |
| you, we, they | were stoking | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been stoking |
| he, she, it | has been stoking | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been stoking |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be stoking |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been stoking |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- A few embarrassments are also smoldering, assiduously stoked by the Gramm camp.
- It stokes up the pressure for the two teams' clash in East Anglia on 5 April.
- It has stoked catastrophic business failures and contributed to increased unemployment.
- Much of the taxpayers' investment has merely stoked up inflation in land prices, effectively closing agriculture to all but the millionaire.
- Since then he has been stoking his fire with fitness and form re-ignited.
- That, and unwanted copies of the Serpell report on Britain's railways was something to stoke the fires with.
- Their employers were quick to stoke up popular envy through the press if players even temporarily forgot their good fortune.
- We stoke the coals, put on a pot of potatoes, and slap five pork chops on to the grill.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The scandal has stoked public outrage.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
1to add more coal or wood to a fire: The scandal has stoked public outrage.· You'd better tuck in, stoke up your energy supplies.· Much of the taxpayers' investment has merely stoked up inflation in land prices, effectively closing agriculture to all but the millionaire.· It stokes up the pressure for the two teams' clash in East Anglia on 5 April.· Their employers were quick to stoke up popular envy through the press if players even temporarily forgot their good fortune.· So they tended to have chronic balance of payments surpluses, which stoked up inflationary pressure by maintaining high demand for goods.· Valerie's absence allowed her to stoke up all sorts of guilt and self-pity and she did not want to forfeit that.· It's heating up here already, yes it's stoking up here nicely for the scorch-riots of August.· The investment financed by this borrowing stoked up demand for commodities, permitting sales to be maintained at higher and higher prices.
NOUN· No, that would simply stoke her anger to further excess.· She lay there and seethed, stoking her anger.
· That, and unwanted copies of the Serpell report on Britain's railways was something to stoke the fires with.· And recent developments have stoked the fires of Cooperstown conversation.· Since then he has been stoking his fire with fitness and form re-ignited.· Occasionally, the vendors stoked the fire and rearranged the coals, which glowed in the hiss of the orange flames.· He stoked the fire so that it flared, then reached behind him for a pouch of thin leather which contained charred bones.
I stoked the furnace for the night.2to cause something to increase: Rising oil prices stoked inflation.stoke fear/anger/envy etc The scandal has stoked public outrage.stoke up phrasal verb1 stoke something ↔ up to add more coal or wood to a fire: We kept the fire stoked up high on cold nights.2stoke up something if something stokes up fear, anger etc, it makes a lot of people feel frightened etc: The leaflets stoked up fears of an invasion.3stoke up on/with something to eat a lot of food, for example because you will not eat again for a long time: We stoked up on hot soup before going out in the snow.