stir

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

stir

past (v2)

stirred

past participle (v3)

stirred

present participle

stirring

3rd person singular

stirs

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

stirs

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To disturb the relative position of the particles (of a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.

   • She stirred the pudding with a spoon.
   • He stirred his coffee so the sugar wouldn't stay at the bottom.
   • My minde is troubled, like a Fountaine stir'd, / And I my selfe see not the bottome of it.

2. 2.To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.

   • Would you please stir this pot so that the chocolate doesn't burn?

3. 3.To emotionally affect; to touch, to move.

4. 4.To incite to action.

   • The Soldiers love her Brother’s Memory; / And for her sake some Mutiny will stir.

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)

   • Can you give the soup a little stir?

2. 2.agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.

   • Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.
   • When the long, hot journey drew to its end and the train slowed down for the last time, there was a stir in Jessamy’s carriage. People began to shake crumbs from their laps and tidy themselves up a little.

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

   • Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.

4. 4.Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

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