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Stir

verb

(past & past part. stirred; pres. part. stirring)

1.

Move an implement through. "Stir my drink" , "Stir the soil"

2.

Move very slightly. Synonyms: agitate, budge, shift.

3.

Stir feelings in. Synonyms: excite, stimulate. "Excite the audience" , "Stir emotions"

4.

Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of. Synonyms: excite, shake, shake up, stimulate. "The civil war shook the country"

5.

Affect emotionally. Synonym: touch. "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"

6.

Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic. Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise. "He conjured wild birds in the air" , "Call down the spirits from the mountain"

7.

To begin moving,. Synonym: arouse.

8.

Mix or add by stirring.

noun

1.

A prominent or sensational but short-lived news event. Synonym: splash.

2.

Emotional agitation and excitement.

3.

A rapid active commotion. Synonyms: ado, bustle, flurry, fuss, hustle.

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"Stir" Quotes from Famous Books

... vous etes trop temeraire!" Madame Bonaventure cried, tapping his arm. "Sit down here for awhile. I will give you the signal when you may depart with safety. Do not attempt to stir till then. ...

— The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 - An Historical Romance • W. Harrison Ainsworth

... in—I forget how few years. The arsenal brings movement into the town; it has appropriated the lion's share of building sites in the "new" town. Is it a ripple on the surface of things, or will it truly stir the spirits of the city? So many arsenals have come and gone, ...

— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas

... his wine-glass, watching the play of sunlight through the ruddy amber of the wine, and considering the extraordinarily odd position of a man sitting at table, by the merest chance, almost, with a father who was not aware that he had begotten him. A question from his lordship came to stir him partially from the reverie into which he was beginning ...

— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini

... Trent had gauged the man correctly. There was a flair of vanity in Gaddon that dated back to his English ancestry. Trent remembered that Gaddon, quite a figure in English scientific circles, had created a stir when he had come over to the United States to assist in rocket research at the Arizona proving grounds. It seemed that Gaddon had not wanted to take a back seat to the famed American scientist, Mathieson. It had made a few gossip columns in the newspapers before Washington put an ...

— The Monster • S. M. Tenneshaw

... pretty nigh forgot to gossip about me by this time. They've had me eloped and married and a millionaire and a pauper long ago, I don't doubt. And now they've probably forgot me altogether. I'll just run down and stir 'em up. Good subjects for yarns are scurce at that postoffice, and they ought to ...

— Cap'n Warren's Wards • Joseph C. Lincoln

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