Definition of Stir

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Definition of Stir

Stir

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

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.

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; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self.

To become the object of notice; to be on foot.

To rise, or be up, in the morning.

The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.

Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.

Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

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Stir Quotations

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
Abraham Lincoln

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
Edward Abbey

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Bertrand Russell

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
David Bowie

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Jesse Jackson

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
P. G. Wodehouse

Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
Sallust

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
Rupert Murdoch

Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.
Talcott Parsons

Stir Translations

stir in Afrikaans is aangry, roer
stir in Dutch is aangrijpen, ontroeren, bewegen
stir in Finnish is liikuttaa
stir in French is affecter
stir in Portuguese is agite
stir in Spanish is impulsar, conmover

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