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stir

verb transitive

[G., to stir, to disturb.]

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stir

To move; to change place in any manner. My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir.

stir

To agitate; to bring into debate. Stir on the questions of jurisdiction.

stir

To incite to action; to instigate; to prompt. An Ate stirring him to blood and strife.

stir

To excite; to raise; to put into motion. And for her sake some mutiny will stir. To stir up,

stir

To incite; to animate; to instigate by inflaming passions; as, to stir up a nation to rebellion. The words of Judas were good and able to stir them up to valor. Maccabees 15:17.

stir

To excite; to put into action; to begin; as, to stir up a mutiny or insurrection; to stir up strife.

stir

To quicken; to enliven; to make more lively or vigorous; as, to stir up the mind.

stir

To disturb; as, to stir up the sediment of liquor.

stir

To move ones self. He is not able to stir.

stir

To go or be carried in any manner. He is not able to stir from home, or to stir abroad.

stir

To be in motion; not to be still. He is continually stirring.

stir

To become the object of notice or conversation. They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon every thing that stirs or appears.

stir

To rise in the morning.

stir

noun
Agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements. Why all these words, this clamor and this stir? Consider, after so much stir about the genus and species, how few words ave yet settled definitions.

stir

Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar. Being advertised of some stir raised by his unnatural sons in England, he departed from Ireland without a blow.

stir

Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.