noun
- Agitating a liquid with an implement.
- usage: "constant stirring prevents it from burning on the bottom of the pan"
- Arousing to a particular emotion or action.
- synonyms: inspiration
verb
- Move an implement through.
- usage: "stir the soup"; "stir my drink"; "stir the soil"
- synonyms: stir
- Move very slightly.
- usage: "He shifted in his seat"
- Stir feelings in.
- usage: "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions"
- Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.
- usage: "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
- Affect emotionally.
- usage: "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"
- Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic.
- usage: "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
- synonyms: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
- (v.) ()
- Mix or add by stirring.
- usage: "Stir nuts into the dough"
- synonyms: stir
adjective
- Capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement.
- usage: "a rousing sermon"; "stirring events such as wars and rescues"
- synonyms: rousing
- Exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions.
- usage: "a stirring speech"
- synonyms: soul-stirring
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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