stirring

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɝɪŋ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈstɜːɹɪŋ/

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Adjective

stirring

1. invigorating or inspiring
   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     As he had said, his voice was hoarse, but he sang well enough, and it was a stirring tune, something between 'Clementine' and 'La Cucaracha'.

   • 2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     But Chelsea, who left Didier Drogba on the bench as coach Carlo Ancelotti favoured Fernando Torres, staged a stirring fightback to move up to fourth and keep United in their sights on a night when nothing other than victory would have kept the Blues in contention.

   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[2]

     The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.

Translations

invigorating, inspiring

• French: passionnant (fr), enthousiasmant (fr)
• German: ergreifend (de), bewegend (de), aufwühlend
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Verb

stirring

1. present participle of stir

Noun

stirring (countable and uncountable, plural stirrings)

1. (gerund of stir) An occasion on which something stirs or is stirred