'Stir' definitions:
Definition of 'stir'
(from WordNet)
noun
A prominent or sensational but short-lived news event; "he made a great splash and then disappeared" [syn: stir, splash]
noun
Emotional agitation and excitement
noun
verb
Move an implement through; "stir the soup"; "stir my drink"; "stir the soil"
verb
verb
Stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions" [syn: stimulate, excite, stir]
verb
Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" [syn: stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir]
verb
Affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy" [syn: touch, stir]
verb
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" [syn: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth]
verb
To begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir" [syn: arouse, stir]
verb
Mix or add by stirring; "Stir nuts into the dough"
Definition of 'Stir'
From: GCIDE
- Stir \Stir\, v. i.
- 1. To move; to change one's position. [1913 Webster]
- I had not power to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self. [1913 Webster]
- All are not fit with them to stir and toil. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- The friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf. --Merivale. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To become the object of notice; to be on foot. [1913 Webster]
- They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To rise, or be up, in the morning. [Colloq.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stir'
From: GCIDE
- Stir \Stir\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stirred; p. pr. & vb. n. Stirring.] [OE. stiren, steren, sturen, AS. styrian; probably akin to D. storen to disturb, G. st["o]ren, OHG. st[=o]ren to scatter, destroy. [root]166.]
- 1. To change the place of in any manner; to move. [1913 Webster]
- My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate; as, to stir a pudding with a spoon. [1913 Webster]
- My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot. [1913 Webster]
- Stir not questions of jurisdiction. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite. "To stir men to devotion." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- And for her sake some mutiny will stir. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Note: In all senses except the first, stir is often followed by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to stir up sedition. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To move; incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate; excite; provoke. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stir'
From: GCIDE
- Stir \Stir\, n.
- 1. The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements. [1913 Webster]
- Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir? --Denham. [1913 Webster]
- Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar. [1913 Webster]
- Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England. --Sir J. Davies. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stir'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- action,
- activate,
- activeness,
- activism,
- activity,
- actuate,
- actuation,
- ado,
- advance,
- affect,
- agitate,
- agitation,
- amalgamate,
- animate,
- annoy,
- arise,
- arouse,
- ascend,
- awake,
- awaken,
- back,
- back up,
- be turbulent,
- beat,
- beat up,
- bestir,
- big house,
- blend,
- blow the coals,
- blow up,
- bluster,
- bobbery,
- boil,
- boiling,
- bother,
- botheration,
- brawl,
- brig,
- broil,
- brouhaha,
- budge,
- burst,
- business,
- bustle,
- calaboose,
- call forth,
- call up,
- can,
- challenge,
- change,
- change place,
- chokey,
- churn,
- churn up,
- circle,
- climb,
- clink,
- come alive,
- come home to,
- commingle,
- commotion,
- confusion,
- conturbation,
- convince,
- convulse,
- cooler,
- coop,
- cultivate,
- descend,
- din,
- disarrange,
- discombobulate,
- discompose,
- discomposure,
- disconcert,
- disorder,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- disturb,
- disturbance,
- doings,
- donnybrook,
- donnybrook fair,
- drive,
- dustup,
- dynamics,
- ebb,
- ebullience,
- ebullition,
- eddy,
- effervescence,
- electrify,
- embroilment,
- encourage,
- energize,
- enkindle,
- enrage,
- excite,
- excitement,
- fan,
- fan the fire,
- fan the flame,
- feed the fire,
- feery-fary,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fever,
- feverishness,
- fidgetiness,
- fidgets,
- fire,
- fit,
- flame,
- flap,
- flow,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- flutteration,
- flutteriness,
- foam,
- foment,
- foofaraw,
- fracas,
- free-for-all,
- frenzy,
- fret,
- fume,
- furore,
- fuss,
- fussiness,
- galvanize,
- get,
- get moving,
- get over,
- get up,
- glasshouse,
- go,
- go around,
- go deep,
- go round,
- go sideways,
- go through one,
- going,
- goings-on,
- gyrate,
- hassle,
- heat,
- helter-skelter,
- hoosegow,
- hubbub,
- hullabaloo,
- hurly-burly,
- hurry,
- hurry-scurry,
- impassion,
- impel,
- incense,
- incite,
- induce,
- inflame,
- infuriate,
- inquietude,
- inspire,
- instigate,
- intermingle,
- jar,
- jitters,
- jolt,
- jug,
- jumpiness,
- keep,
- key up,
- kindle,
- kinematics,
- kinesipathy,
- kinesis,
- kinesitherapy,
- kinetics,
- lather up,
- light the fuse,
- light up,
- look lively,
- madden,
- maelstrom,
- make sensitive,
- malaise,
- melee,
- melt,
- melt the heart,
- merge,
- militancy,
- mill,
- mill around,
- mingle,
- mix up,
- mobilization,
- moil,
- motion,
- motivate,
- motivation,
- mount,
- move,
- move over,
- movement,
- moving,
- nerviness,
- nervosity,
- nervousness,
- overexcite,
- paddle,
- pandemonium,
- pell-mell,
- pen,
- penetrate,
- penitentiary,
- persuade,
- perturb,
- perturbate,
- perturbation,
- pierce,
- pique,
- plunge,
- pokey,
- political activism,
- pother,
- prison,
- proceedings,
- prod,
- progress,
- prompt,
- provoke,
- quicken,
- quod,
- racket,
- raise,
- raise up,
- rally,
- rampage,
- rattle,
- refine,
- regress,
- restlessness,
- resuscitate,
- retrogress,
- revive,
- rile,
- riot,
- ripple,
- rise,
- rock,
- roil,
- rotate,
- rough-and-tumble,
- roughen,
- roughhouse,
- rouse,
- rout,
- row,
- ruckus,
- ruction,
- ruffle,
- rumple,
- rumpus,
- run,
- running,
- scramble,
- seethe,
- seething,
- sensibilize,
- sensitize,
- set astir,
- set fire to,
- set on,
- set on fire,
- shake,
- shake a leg,
- shake up,
- sharpen,
- shift,
- shindy,
- shock,
- simmer,
- sink,
- slammer,
- smart,
- smolder,
- soar,
- soften,
- spasm,
- spin,
- spur,
- spurt,
- stagger,
- steam up,
- step lively,
- stew,
- stimulate,
- sting,
- stir about,
- stir the blood,
- stir the embers,
- stir the feelings,
- stir up,
- stirring,
- stream,
- subside,
- summon up,
- sweat,
- swirl,
- swirling,
- to-do,
- touch,
- touch a chord,
- travel,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- trouble,
- tumult,
- tumultuation,
- turbidity,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- turn on,
- twitter,
- unease,
- unquiet,
- unrest,
- unsettle,
- uproar,
- upset,
- urge,
- velocity,
- vitalize,
- vortex,
- wake,
- wake up,
- waken,
- wane,
- warm,
- warm the blood,
- whet,
- whip,
- whip up,
- whirl,
- whirlpool,
- whirlwind,
- whisk,
- work into,
- work up,
- yeastiness