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stirred

agitated \agitated\ adj.

  1. troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of unagitated. agitated parents

    Note: Narrower terms are: demoniac, demoniacal ; distraught, overwrought; {disturbed, jolted, shaken; feverish, hectic; frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied; psychedelic ; {rampageous, raging, frenzied ; {wild-eyed . Also See: discomposed, excited, impatient, tense, unquiet, unsteady.

  2. 1 throwing oneself from side to side.

    Syn: tossing

  3. physically disturbed or set in motion; as, the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled. Opposite of {unagitated and left alone, allowed to stand.

    Note: [Narrower terms are: churning, churned-up, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent ; {stirred.]

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stirred

vb. (en-past of: stir)

WordNet
stir
  1. v. 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"

  9. [also: stirring, stirred]

stir
  1. n. 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]

  4. [also: stirring, stirred]

stirred
  1. adj. emotionally affected; "very touched by the stranger's kindness" [syn: affected(p), stirred(p), touched(p)]

  2. emotionally aroused [syn: stimulated, stirred up, aroused]

  3. set into a usually circular motion in order to mix or blend

stirred

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Usage examples of "stirred".

The Admiral suddenly stirred and groaned, waving them away with an impatient hand.

He stirred the stew, inhaling the meaty odors with pleasure and eager for the return of his family so he could tell them what had happened.

Then he realized, and laughed at the realization, that, however unsociable hatred was, it stirred the blood as well as the imagination.

It stirred and snuggled closer, exhaling on something remarkably like a purr.

The man stirred and vainly tried to raise himself, only to sink back to the ground with a groan.

Now she and Forister gazed in horrified silence at stagnant pools in which no living thing stirred, valleys eroded from the brutal road cuts leading to new hyperchip plants, swirling clouds of dust and ash blanketing woods in which the trees died and no birds sang.

Something stirred in the middle of its forehead, between blank silver eyes.

The girl stirred slightly in her sleep, and her hand settled upon the hair on his chest.

Thunderstorm stirred and raised a feeble wing-finger to the youth's hand.

She repositioned her arm on his chest, placidly noting that the fine hairs across Lars's pectoral muscles stirred upright.

The ringing stirred senses, and awoke desires as it grew louder, more insistent.

She struggled upright in the seat, biting her lip, for movement stirred up the crystal sting that pinched at blood and bone.

About the same time, the trees began to shimmy, the river alongside the trail churned as if stirred by millions of giant fish, and the ground shuddered.

The officer did not mistake the warning in the young man's manner and moved judiciously toward Eric's office space, just as a bellow and a kicking foot stirred the curtain.

Over one wide pasture they caught sight of a cloud of dust, but whatever had stirred it up disappeared under the broad leaves of a thick forest.