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stir_up
stir up
English
Verb
stir up (third-person singular simple present stirs up, present participle stirring up, simple past and past participle stirred up)
- (transitive) arouse or excite passion or action.
- What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he can stir up ten others to take up the task he has accomplished much - Wilbur Wright
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 16
- All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag,...
- (transitive) mix ingredients.
- (transitive) to move or disturb slightly, to make turbid.
Translations
arouse or excite passion or action
to cause (trouble etc)
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to mix ingredients
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to make turbid
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References
- “stir up” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
- "stir up" in the Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), K Dictionaries limited, 2000-2006.
- "stir up" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.