Stoked

Anti-foreign sentiment is often stoked by the Chinese government in order to bolster cheap nationalism.

Stoked by drought-parched vegetation and triple-digit temperatures, the Carr Fire has killed six people, destroyed 1,567 homes and other structures and blackened 131,896 acres (53,376 hectares). It ranks as the sixth most destructive California wildfire on record.

I held her hand and stoked it with my thumb.

Tom stoked up his oven with the wood he had gathered.

Yanni stoked Skura's hair softly.

Matthew stoked the campfire to keep the flames alive.

Robert touched Sandra's hair and gently stoked it.

Janos stoked the fire.

I'm so stoked.

1964, The Australian, 3 December 1964. Quoted in Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter XI, end of section 2, page 255. When you're driving hard and fast down the wall, with the soup curling behind yer, or doing this backside turn on a big one about to tube, it's just this feeling. Yer know, it leaves yer feeling stoked.