stir up (third-person singular simple present stirs up, present participle stirring up, simple past and past participle stirred up)

1. (transitive) To arouse or excite (passion or action, etc.).
   • 1900 June 1, Wilbur Wright, Letter to Octave Chanute:

     What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he can stir 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) To mix (ingredients) by stirring.
3. (transitive) To move or disturb slightly; to make turbid.

• French: stimuler, inciter
• Italian: stimolare, appassionare, convincere
• Portuguese: incitar
• Spanish: levantar pasiones, soliviantar, concitar

• French: faire de l'agitation
• German: entfachen
• Italian: fomentare, sobillare, incitare
• Portuguese: fazer agitação (Brazil); provocar (Portugal)
• Spanish: despertar, provocar, excitar, fomentar

• French: mélanger
• Portuguese: misturar
• Russian: разме́шивать