What is "stirred up"

Usage examples of "stirred up".

The Jesuits were accused of having stirred up one of their Indian tribes, in the area of San Sacramento, to revolt against the Kings of Spain and Portugal.

It must be answered that it can be by the work of the devil that hatred is stirred up between married people so as to cause the crime of adultery.

Again, in the book of Ecclesiastic Dogma it is said: Not all our evil thoughts are stirred up by the devil, but sometimes they arise from the operation of our own judgement.

The case of the Countess Olenska had stirred up old settled convictions and set them drifting dangerously through his mind.

The hooves of the horses stirred up miniature dust devils of yellow haze.

His fingers were scraped raw, and he kept inhaling dust stirred up by his passage.

These voices stirred up odd ideas and emotions inside her, so that she grew by turns elated and terrified, as if she were a baby who could not yet understand the language of her parents.

Memories stirred up by the singers hovered in the back of his mind.