Stir

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
 * 1)  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
 * 1)  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?
 * 1)  To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
 * Stir not questions of jurisdiction. —Francis Bacon
 * 1)  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.
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 * That night he was almost too happy to sleep, and so much love stirred in his little sawdust heart that it almost burst.
 * 1)  To move; to change one’s position.
 * I had not power to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive. —Byron.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  To rise, or be up, in the morning.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

 * stirrer
 * stir-fry
 * stir up

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.
 * 1) Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
 * Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England. —Sir John Davies.
 * 1) Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

Noun

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

Adjectives for Stir
fluttering; quick; multitudinous; tremulous; nervous; gentle; tremendous; angry; noiseless; pleasant; enormous; ceaseless; restless; subdued; faint; considerable; unnoticed.

Verbs for Stir
agitate—; brook—; create—; embroil in—; endure—; quash—; quell—; restrain—; sub¬due—; suppress—; tolerate—; —bustles; — convulses; —disconcerts; —disquiets; —distracts ; —diverts ; —ebbs; —excites ; —intensifies; —persists; —perturbs; —sharpens; —subsides.

Adverbs for Stir
contentiously; frantically; emotionally; spiritually; imperceptibly; profoundly; incessantly; restively; caressingly; tremulously; ceaselessly; agitatedly.

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

Pronunciation

 * RP,
 * Gen Am,

Etymology 1
From styrian:

Verb

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: muovere
 * Japanese:


 * Latin:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: двигать (dvígat'), двинуть (dvínut') ; шевелить (šev'elít') , шевельнуть (šev'el'nút')


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 攪, 搅 (jiǎo)
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hungarian:, kavar
 * Japanese: 掻き混ぜる
 * Latvian: maisīt
 * Russian: размешивать (razm'éšivat’), размешать (razm'ešát’)
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: hämmentää, sekoittaa


 * German:
 * Japanese:
 * Russian: вызывать (vyzyvát'), вызвать (výzvat') ; возбуждать (vozbuždát') , возбудить (vozbudít')


 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German:
 * Japanese: かき立てる


 * Latin:
 * Russian: вызывать (vyzyvát'), вызвать (výzvat')
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Finnish:
 * German: (sich) bewegen
 * Hungarian:


 * Japanese:
 * Russian: двигаться (dvígat's'a), двинуться (dvínut's'a) ; шевелиться (šev'elít's'a) , шевельнуться (šev'el'nút's'a)


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: (sich) regen
 * Hungarian:


 * Japanese: 動き回る
 * Russian: двигаться (dvígat's'a), двинуться (dvínut's'a) ; шевелиться (šev'elít's'a) , шевельнуться (šev'el'nút's'a)


 * Finnish:


 * German:


 * Finnish:


 * : roeren
 * : agiter, remuer
 * : agitar
 * : mescolare
 * : mescolare


 * : 휘젓다 (hwijeotta)
 * : mexer
 * : revolver
 * : röra

Noun

 * Catalan: avalot, gatzara, cridòria, esvalot, aldarull, rebombori
 * German:
 * Japanese: 撹拌


 * Russian: неразбериха, суматоха, суета, переполох, ажиотаж


 * Catalan: avalot, cridòria, esvalot, rebombori
 * German:


 * Japanese: 騒動
 * Russian:


 * French:
 * German: Erregung


 * Japanese: 騒動
 * Russian: смятение

Anagrams

 * ISTR
 * TRIS