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Princeton's WordNet

  1. agitate, foment, stir upverb

    try to stir up public opinion

  2. inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat, fire upverb

    arouse or excite feelings and passions

    "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred"

  3. agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise upverb

    change the arrangement or position of

  4. incite, instigate, set off, stir upverb

    provoke or stir up

    "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people"

Wiktionary

  1. stir upverb

    arouse or excite passion or action.

  2. stir upverb

    mix ingredients.

ChatGPT

  1. stir up

    To stir up generally means to incite, provoke, or cause an emotion of disturbance or trouble. It could also refer to provoking an event or situation. The term is often used in the context of emotions, conflict, or disorder, such as stirring up controversy or stirring up trouble. Additionally, in terms of cooking, stir up means mixing ingredients together in a bowl or pot.

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  1. purist

  2. tripus

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of stir up in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of stir up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of stir up in a Sentence

  1. Kim Schrier:

    Our President even tried to tie terrorists from the Middle East with the caravan. It's like bringing up all of these buzzwords that stir up a frenzy in their base, we all teach our kids that we're better than this.

  2. German Chancellor Angela Merkel:

    When people stir up sedition on social networks using their real name, it's not only the state that has to act, but also Facebook as a company should do something against these paroles.

  3. Mark Sanford:

    I suspect it would stir up the rank and file. And when you get the rank and file at the grass-roots level, other folks get stirred up within the conference.

  4. Charles Krauthammer:

    They were deliberately deceiving the American people and the Congress, they were pretending otherwise, because in that way, they could portray [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu - who gave an accurate assessment - as an alarmist, trying to stir up war.

  5. Book of Proverbs:

    A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.


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