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Defenition of the word stir

    • Defenition of the word stir

      • An emotional agitation and excitement.
      • A rapid active commotion.
      • To move a tool through (e.g. a cup).
      • To move slightly.
      • To stimulate feelings.
      • To affect emotionally.
      • To summon into action or bring into existence.
      • to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir"
      • a rapid bustling commotion
      • a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"
      • evoke or call forth: "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"
      • stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"
      • as of senses or emotions; "These stories shook the community"
      • emotional agitation and excitement
      • move with a stirring motion; "stir the soup"
      • move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat"
      • agitate; "toss the salad"; "stir nuts into the dough"
      • affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"
      • mix or add by stirring; "Stir nuts into the dough"
      • evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
      • stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
      • move an implement through with a circular motion; "stir the soup"; "stir my drink"
      • stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions"
      • a rapid active commotion
      • a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event
      • mix or add by stirring
      • summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
      • stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
      • affect emotionally
      • move very slightly
      • to begin moving,
      • move an implement through
      • stir feelings in

    Synonyms for the word stir

      • ado
      • agitate
      • arouse
      • bring up
      • budge
      • bustle
      • call down
      • call forth
      • commotion
      • conjure
      • conjure up
      • disruption
      • disturbance
      • excite
      • flurry
      • fuss
      • hurly burly
      • hustle
      • invoke
      • put forward
      • raise
      • shake
      • shake up
      • shift
      • stimulate
      • to-do
      • toss
      • touch
      • turmoil

    Similar words in the stir

      • agitate
      • commove
      • disturb
      • fire up
      • foment
      • heat
      • ignite
      • inflame
      • raise up
      • shake up
      • stir up

    Hyponyms for the word stir

      • affright
      • anathemise
      • anathemize
      • animate
      • arouse
      • bedamn
      • beshrew
      • bless
      • blow
      • churn
      • convulsion
      • curse
      • damn
      • disgust
      • earthquake
      • elate
      • electricity
      • enliven
      • exalt
      • excite
      • fellate
      • fright
      • frighten
      • fuck off
      • fuel
      • garboil
      • get
      • go down on
      • gross out
      • horripilate
      • imprecate
      • incident
      • inspire
      • intoxicate
      • invigorate
      • invite
      • jack off
      • jerk off
      • lift up
      • maledict
      • masturbate
      • paddle
      • pick up
      • quicken
      • repel
      • revolt
      • scare
      • sensation
      • sex
      • she-bop
      • storm
      • storm center
      • storm centre
      • suck
      • tempest
      • tempt
      • thrill
      • tickle
      • titillate
      • tumult
      • tumultuousness
      • turmoil
      • turn on
      • upheaval
      • uplift
      • uproar
      • vibrate
      • wank
      • whet
      • wind up
      • work

    Hypernyms for the word stir

      • affect
      • agitate
      • agitation
      • arouse
      • commotion
      • commove
      • create
      • din
      • disorder
      • displace
      • disruption
      • disturb
      • disturbance
      • elicit
      • enkindle
      • evoke
      • fire
      • flutter
      • hoo-ha
      • hoo-hah
      • hurly burly
      • impress
      • kerfuffle
      • kindle
      • make
      • move
      • provoke
      • raise
      • raise up
      • ruckus
      • ruction
      • rumpus
      • sensitise
      • sensitize
      • shake up
      • stir up
      • strike
      • to-do
      • tumult
      • work

    Idioms for the word stir

      • not to stir an eyelid
      • not to stir a finger
      • to stir one's stumps

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