English

Pronunciation
RP, IPA|/st��/
Gen Am, IPA|/st��r/
audio|en-us-stir.ogg|Audio (US)
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��(r)|-��(r)

Etymology
Old English styrian

Transitive verb
rfc-trverb|Transitive verb
en-verb|stirs|stirring|stirred

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 W. Temple

1. 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.

#:My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred. �Shak

1. To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.

#:Stir not questions of jurisdiction. �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. �Shak.
#:And for her sake some mutiny will stir. �Dryden.
#:Note: In all senses except the first, stir is often followed by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to stir up sedition.

Synonyms
To move; incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate; excite; provoke.

Translations
trans-top|To change the place of in any manner; to move
Finnish: liikuttaa
trans-mid
German: bewegen
Russian: двига�� (dvígat') impf, двин��� (dvínut') pf; �евели�� (šev'elít') impf, �евел�н��� (šev'el'nút') pf
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trans-top|To disturb the relative position of the particles of
Finnish: sekoittaa
trans-mid
German: rühren
Russian: �азме�ива�� (razm'éšivat�) impf, �азме�а�� (razm'ešát�) pf
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trans-top|To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot
German: hervorrufen
trans-mid
Russian: в�з�ва�� (vyzyvát') impf, в�зва�� (výzvat') pf; возб�жда�� (vozbuždát') impf, возб�ди�� (vozbudít') pf
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trans-top|To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite
Finnish: yllyttää, kiihottaa
trans-mid
German: anstacheln
Russian: в�з�ва�� (vyzyvát') impf, в�зва�� (výzvat') pf
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ttbc|Arabic: ARchar|�زج unicode|(mázaja)
ttbc|Chinese: �, � (ji�o)
ttbc|Dutch: roeren
ttbc|French: agiter, remuer
ttbc|Hungarian: keverni
ttbc|Ido: agitar
ttbc|Italian: mescolare
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ttbc|Japanese: ��混�� (�����, kakimazeru)
ttbc|Korean: ��� (hwijeotta)
ttbc|Portuguese: mexer
ttbc|Spanish: revolver
ttbc|Swedish: röra
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Intransitive verb
en-verb|stirs|stirring|stirred

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. �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. �I. Watts.

1. To rise, or be up, in the morning. [Colloq.] �Shak.

Translations
trans-top|To move; to change one�s position
Finnish: liikkua
trans-mid
German: (sich) bewegen
Russian: двига���� (dvígat's'a) impf, двин����� (dvínut's'a) pf; �евели���� (šev'elít's'a) impf, �евел�н����� (šev'el'nút's'a) pf
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trans-top|To be in motion
German: (sich) regen
trans-mid
Russian: двига���� (dvígat's'a) impf, двин����� (dvínut's'a) pf; �евели���� (šev'elít's'a) impf, �евел�н����� (šev'el'nút's'a) pf
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trans-top|To become the object of notice; to be on foot
German: auffallen
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trans-top|To rise, or be up, in the morning
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Noun
en-noun|s|-

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

#:Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir? �Denham.
#:Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of. �Locke.

1. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.

#:Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England. �Sir J.Davies.

1. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

Translations
trans-top|The act or result of stirring
German: Erregung
trans-mid
Russian: не�азбе�и�а (n'erazb'erí�a) f, ��ма�о�а (sumató�a) f, ��е�а (sujetá) f, пе�еполо� (p'er'epoló�) m
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trans-top|Public disturbance or commotion
German: Aufruhr
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Russian: волнени� (voln'énija) p
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trans-top|Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions
German: Erregung
trans-mid
Russian: �м��ение (sm'at'énije) n
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