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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Stir \Stir\, v. t. [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. [1913 Webster] My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot. [1913 Webster] Stir not questions of jurisdiction. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 4. To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite. "To stir men to devotion." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife. --Shak. [1913 Webster] And for her sake some mutiny will stir. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Syn: To move; incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate; excite; provoke. [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Stir \Stir\, n. 1. The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements. [1913 Webster] Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir? --Denham. [1913 Webster] Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 2. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar. [1913 Webster] Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England. --Sir J. Davies. [1913 Webster] 3. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions. [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Stir \Stir\, v. i. 1. To move; to change one's position. [1913 Webster] I had not power to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive. --Byron. [1913 Webster] 2. To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self. [1913 Webster] All are not fit with them to stir and toil. --Byron. [1913 Webster] The friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf. --Merivale. [1913 Webster] 3. To become the object of notice; to be on foot. [1913 Webster] They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster] 4. To rise, or be up, in the morning. [Colloq.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 2.0 :
stir n 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] v 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]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
351 Moby Thesaurus words for "stir": action, activate, activeness, activism, activity, actuate, actuation, ado, advance, affect, agitate, agitation, amalgamate, animate, annoy, arise, arouse, ascend, awake, awaken, back, back up, be turbulent, beat, beat up, bestir, big house, blend, blow the coals, blow up, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, botheration, brawl, brig, broil, brouhaha, budge, burst, business, bustle, calaboose, call forth, call up, can, challenge, change, change place, chokey, churn, churn up, circle, climb, clink, come alive, come home to, commingle, commotion, confusion, conturbation, convince, convulse, cooler, coop, cultivate, descend, din, disarrange, discombobulate, discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturb, disturbance, doings, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, drive, dustup, dynamics, ebb, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, electrify, embroilment, encourage, energize, enkindle, enrage, excite, excitement, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, fire, fit, flame, flap, flow, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, flutteriness, foam, foment, foofaraw, fracas, free-for-all, frenzy, fret, fume, furore, fuss, fussiness, galvanize, get, get moving, get over, get up, glasshouse, go, go around, go deep, go round, go sideways, go through one, going, goings-on, gyrate, hassle, heat, helter-skelter, hoosegow, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, impassion, impel, incense, incite, induce, inflame, infuriate, inquietude, inspire, instigate, intermingle, jar, jitters, jolt, jug, jumpiness, keep, key up, kindle, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, lather up, light the fuse, light up, look lively, madden, maelstrom, make sensitive, malaise, melee, melt, melt the heart, merge, militancy, mill, mill around, mingle, mix up, mobilization, moil, motion, motivate, motivation, mount, move, move over, movement, moving, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, overexcite, paddle, pandemonium, pell-mell, pen, penetrate, penitentiary, persuade, perturb, perturbate, perturbation, pierce, pique, plunge, pokey, political activism, pother, prison, proceedings, prod, progress, prompt, provoke, quicken, quod, racket, raise, raise up, rally, rampage, rattle, refine, regress, restlessness, resuscitate, retrogress, revive, rile, riot, ripple, rise, rock, roil, rotate, rough-and-tumble, roughen, roughhouse, rouse, rout, row, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumple, rumpus, run, running, scramble, seethe, seething, sensibilize, sensitize, set astir, set fire to, set on, set on fire, shake, shake a leg, shake up, sharpen, shift, shindy, shock, simmer, sink, slammer, smart, smolder, soar, soften, spasm, spin, spur, spurt, stagger, steam up, step lively, stew, stimulate, sting, stir about, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, stirring, stream, subside, summon up, sweat, swirl, swirling, to-do, touch, touch a chord, travel, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, turn on, twitter, unease, unquiet, unrest, unsettle, uproar, upset, urge, velocity, vitalize, vortex, wake, wake up, waken, wane, warm, warm the blood, whet, whip, whip up, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, whisk, work into, work up, yeastiness

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