Stir
WordNet

noun


(1)   A rapid active commotion
(2)   Emotional agitation and excitement
(3)   A prominent or sensational but short-lived news event
"He made a great splash and then disappeared"

verb


(4)   Mix or add by stirring
"Stir nuts into the dough"
(5)   Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
"Raise the specter of unemployment"
"He conjured wild birds in the air"
"Call down the spirits from the mountain"
(6)   Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
"These stories shook the community"
"The civil war shook the country"
(7)   Affect emotionally
"A stirring movie"
"I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"
(8)   Move very slightly
"He shifted in his seat"
(9)   To begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir"
(10)   Move an implement through with a circular motion
"Stir the soup"
"Stir my drink"
(11)   Stir feelings in
"Stimulate my appetite"
"Excite the audience"
"Stir emotions"
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Verb



  1. To change the place of in any manner; to move.
    My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir. —Sir William Temple
  2. To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate
    She stired a pudding with a spoon.
    My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred. —Shakespeare
  3. To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
    Stir not questions of jurisdiction. —Francis Bacon
  4. To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
    To stir men to devotion. —Chaucer
    An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife. —Shakespeare
    And for her sake some mutiny will stir. —John Dryden.
  5. To move; to change one’s position.
    I had not power to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive. —Byron.
  6. To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self.
    All are not fit with them to stir and toil. —Byron.
    The friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf. — Charles Merivale.
  7. To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
    They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears. —Isaac Watts.
  8. To rise, or be up, in the morning. —Shakespeare

Usage notes
  • In all transitive senses except the first, stir is often followed by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to stir up sedition.

Synonyms
incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate; excite; provoke.

Noun



  1. The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
    Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir? — Sir John Denham.
    Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of. —John Locke.
  2. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
    Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England. —Sir John Davies.
  3. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

Noun



  1. Jail; prison.
    He's going to spendin' maybe ten years in stir.
 
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