stir
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[edit] Etymology 1
From Old English styrian
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stir (third-person singular simple present stirs, present participle stirring, simple past and past participle stirred)
- (transitive, dated) 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
- (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate.
- She stirred the pudding with a spoon.
- My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred. —Shakespeare
- (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container) by passing something through it.
- Would you please stand here and stir this pot so that the chocolate doesn't burn?
- (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
- Stir not questions of jurisdiction. —Francis Bacon
- (transitive) 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.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- That night he was almost too happy to sleep, and so much love stirred in his little sawdust heart that it almost burst.
- (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
- I had not power to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive. —Byron.
- (intransitive) 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.
- (intransitive) 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.
- (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up, in the morning.
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- 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.
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To change the place of in any manner; to move
To disturb the relative position of the particles of
to agitate the contents of
To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot
To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite
To move; to change one’s position
To be in motion
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[edit] Noun
stir (countable and uncountable; plural stirs)
- 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.
- Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
- Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England. —Sir John Davies.
- Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
[edit] Translations
The act or result of stirring
Public disturbance or commotion
Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions
[edit] Etymology 2
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stir (uncountable)
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stir
- imperative of stirre
