 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
stir
noun
1: a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the
furious disturbance they had caused" [syn: {disturbance},
{disruption}, {commotion}, {flutter}, {hurly burly}, {to-do},
{hoo-ha}, {hoo-hah}, {kerfuffle}]
2: emotional agitation and excitement
3: a rapid bustling commotion [syn: {bustle}, {hustle}, {flurry},
{ado}, {fuss}]
verb
1: move an implement through with a circular motion; "stir the
soup"; "stir my drink"
2: move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" [syn: {shift},
{budge}, {agitate}]
3: stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the
audience"; "stir emotions" [syn: {stimulate}, {excite}]
4: stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories
shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
[syn: {stimulate}, {shake}, {shake up}, {excite}]
5: affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by
your kind letter of sympathy" [syn: {touch}]
6: evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic; "raise the
specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the
air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from
the mountain" [syn: {raise}, {conjure}, {conjure up}, {invoke},
{evoke}, {call down}, {arouse}, {bring up}, {put forward},
{call forth}]
7: to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping
children began to stir" [syn: {arouse}]
8: mix or add by stirring; "Stir nuts into the dough"
[also: {stirring}, {stirred}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
stirred
adjective
1: emotionally affected; "very touched by the stranger's
kindness" [syn: {affected(p)}, {stirred(p)}, {touched(p)}]
2: emotionally aroused [syn: {stimulated}, {stirred up}, {aroused}]
3: set into a usually circular motion in order to mix or blend
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
stirred
See {stir}
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
agitated \agitated\ adjective
1. troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of
{unagitated}. agitated parents
Note: Narrower terms are: {demoniac, demoniacal ; distraught,
overwrought; {disturbed, jolted, shaken}; {feverish,
hectic}; {frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied};
{psychedelic ; {rampageous, raging, frenzied ;
{wild-eyed . Also See: discomposed, excited, impatient,
tense, unquiet, unsteady.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. 1 throwing oneself from side to side.
Syn: tossing
[WordNet 1.5]
3. physically disturbed or set in motion; as, the agitated
mixture foamed and bubbled. Opposite of {unagitated} and
{left alone}, {allowed to stand}.
Note: [Narrower terms are: {churning, churned-up, roiling,
roiled, roily, turbulent ; {stirred}.]
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stir \Stir\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Stirred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Stirring}.] [OE. stiren, steren, sturen, AS. styrian;
probably akin to D. storen to disturb, G. st["o]ren, OHG.
st[=o]ren to scatter, destroy. [root]166.]
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.
2. 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.
3. To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
Stir not questions of jurisdiction. --Bacon.
4. 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.
Syn: To move; incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate;
excite; provoke.
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