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stirup (third-person singular simple presentstirs up,present participlestirring up,simple past and past participlestirred up)

  1. (transitive) Toarouse orexcite (passion oraction, etc.).
    Synonyms:instigate,provoke;see alsoThesaurus:incite
    • 1900 June 1,Wilbur Wright,Letter toOctave Chanute:
      What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he canstir up ten others to take up the task he has accomplished much.
    • 1922 February,James Joyce,Ulysses, Paris:Shakespeare and Company, […],→OCLC:
      Episode 16:
      All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion,stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag […]
  2. (transitive) Tomix (ingredients) by stirring.
    Synonyms:stir,swizzle
  3. (transitive) To move or disturb slightly; to make turbid.
    Synonyms:agitate,muddle,roil,trouble

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arouse or excite passion or action
to cause (trouble etc)
to mix ingredients
to make turbid

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