The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word STIMULATE
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More clues leading to the result STIMULATE
- To arouse old model, put on trousers
- Induce badly mutilated son to take over from daughter
- Make a pretence of embracing technology’s lead with Kindle
- Encourage mimic seen outside theatre at first
- Provoke mimic pinching last of profit
- Encourage last-minute changes, ignoring head of news
- Encourage one getting cross no end to go into country
- Fire! Act to curb temperature
- Urge one obstinate animal, endlessly in bother
- Prompt conclusion of expert taken in by fake
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What does STIMULATE mean?
STIMULATE verb- To encourage into action.
- To arouse an organism to functional activity.