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The verb appetise is defined by the full OED as To give (a person) appetite, to cause relish for food. It's flagged up by them as " rare ", which in practice means it's never used (except as the adjectival derived form appetising). Assuming I've understood OP's intended meaning, his example could be idiomatically rephrased as...
Apr 2, 2018 at 9:12. 1. @BillJ - FWIW, the OED lists scaffold as a verb to mean (figuratively) "to prop up," tracing usage back to the late 1600s. More recently, it's becoming a trendy word in higher ed. The Centre for Teaching and Learning at University of Toronto Scarborough published a booklet called Instructional Scaffolding; it cites ...
That example sentence, as a native speaker, doesn't quite flow (beyond the it's typo). "It strikes me" is a metaphoric phrase where the an idea comes to your mind suddenly and without warning, like being unexpectedly struck by the thought as if it were a projectile. Seeing some clouds looming in the distance and assuming future rain doesn't ...
7. No, it's not a word. The correct form is "timing out". The word "timeout" is a noun. For instance, this sentence is valid: You can call set_timeout(10) to set the timeout for the script to 10 seconds. The verb form of this word is the phrasal verb "time out". The past tense form is "timed out" and the present continuous form is "timing out".