stir up
Verb
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Verb
stir up (third-person singular simple present stirs up, present participle stirring up, simple past and past participle stirred up)
- (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 […]
- (transitive) To mix (ingredients) by stirring.
- (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
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