Crossword clues for stirring
stirring
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stir \Stir\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stirred; p. pr. & vb. n. Stirring.] [OE. stiren, steren, sturen, AS. styrian; probably akin to D. storen to disturb, G. st["o]ren, OHG. st[=o]ren to scatter, destroy. [root]166.]
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To change the place of in any manner; to move.
My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir.
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To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate; as, to stir a pudding with a spoon.
My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred.
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To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
Stir not questions of jurisdiction.
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To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite. ``To stir men to devotion.''
--Chaucer.An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife.
--Shak.And for her sake some mutiny will stir.
--Dryden.Note: In all senses except the first, stir is often followed by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to stir up sedition.
Syn: To move; incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate; excite; provoke.
Stirring \Stir"ring\, a. Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life.
A more stirring and intellectual age than any which had
gone before it.
--Southey.
Syn: Animating; arousing; awakening; stimulating; quickening; exciting.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a beginning to move," mid-14c., verbal noun from stir (v). Figurative sense by late 14c. Related: Stirrings.
late 15c., replacing sterand, from Old English styrend "in active motion; animated, rousing,"present participle adjective from stir (v.). Related: Stirringly.\n
Wiktionary
invigorating or inspiring n. (context gerund of stir English) An occasion on which something stirs or is stirred v
(present participle of stir English)
WordNet
n. agitating a liquid with an implement; "constant stirring prevents it from burning on the bottom of the pan"
arousing to a particular emotion or action [syn: inspiration]
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]
emotional agitation and excitement
a rapid bustling commotion [syn: bustle, hustle, flurry, ado, fuss]
adj. capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement; "a rousing sermon"; "stirring events such as wars and rescues" [syn: rousing]
exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions; "a stirring speech" [syn: soul-stirring]
See stir
v. move an implement through with a circular motion; "stir the soup"; "stir my drink"
move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" [syn: shift, budge, agitate]
stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions" [syn: stimulate, excite]
stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" [syn: stimulate, shake, shake up, excite]
affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy" [syn: touch]
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]
to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir" [syn: arouse]
mix or add by stirring; "Stir nuts into the dough"
Usage examples of "stirring".
Zarakal may be no giant, Africa is a colossus stirring with a newfound sense of its strength, I am the champion of African astronautics, Mr.
She leaned on the balustrade, gazing out at the blue of the bay, feeling the sea breeze stirring in her hair.
Rowan began stirring again thoughtfully before pouring the contents of the pan into a large bowl and straining basmati rice into another while her aunt set the table.
And because he was carrying the lantern, knowing Esteban and probably Cornwallis at least would still be stirring in the house, he made his way to and from the bluff the long way around, through the cane-rows downstream from the house and up the batture, with the levee between the bobbing light and the windows.
Not a mouse stirring as he walked, and there, under rolling cloud all besilvered, he saw it, the Theatre, with something like disappointment.
And now, at last, as she stood in the stern of the ship, in a pitch-dark, rather blowy night, feeling the motion of the sea, and watching the small, rather desolate little lights that twinkled on the shores of England, as on the shores of nowhere, watched them sinking smaller and smaller on the profound and living darkness, she felt her soul stirring to awake from its anaesthetic sleep.
And as dawn approached people were rising, stirring and scratching themselves, making breakfast, some climbing on top of their cars to see what was going on at the Bootstrap compound.
He smiled at Brigg with the special smile of army cooks when they are stirring something.
Year - The sting of the stirring sap Under the wizardry of the young-eyed Spring, Their summer amplitudes of pomp, Their rich autumnal melancholy, and the shrill, Embittered housewifery Of the lean Winter: all such things, And with them all the goodness of the Master, Whose right hand blesses with increase and life, Whose left hand honours with decay and death.
A five-piece mariachi band played stirring traditional music and, between songs, strolled about the crowds of guests to different locations.
The metaphysician, equipped by that very character, winged already and not like those others, in need of disengagement, stirring of himself towards the supernal but doubting of the way, needs only a guide.
And she was Pippa after all, only instead of singing she was stirring up the variables, upping the level of chaos with every petition and misdelivered package until the system went critical.
He had read about but never experienced the chill in the air, the cunning onset of dark, the sight of white villages, of animals seeking their nighttime roosts or holes, of nocturnal creatures stirring in the fugitive gloom, the general motivating tendency being one of rapid physical adaptation to a mistimed event.
All the same, the extraordinary pre monition of stirring events to come stayed with him.
Dying embers still glowed in the hearth, awaiting another stirring to life at morningtide, while the stench of stale ale, peat smoke, and sweat seemed to hang close above their heads, held there by the low ceiling.