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Etymology 1

From Old English styrian

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
    My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir. —Sir William Temple
  2. (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate.
    She stirred the pudding with a spoon.
    My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred. —Shakespeare
  3. (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container) by passing something through it.
    Would you please stand here and stir this pot so that the chocolate doesn't burn?
  4. (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
    Stir not questions of jurisdiction. —Francis Bacon
  5. (transitive) 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. —Shakespeare
    And for her sake some mutiny will stir. —John Dryden.
  6. (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
    I had not power to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive. —Byron.
  7. (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self.
    All are not fit with them to stir and toil. —Byron.
    The friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf. — Charles Merivale.
  8. (intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
    They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears. —Isaac Watts.
  9. (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up, in the morning.
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Translations
To change the place of in any manner; to move
  • Bulgarian: аларма bg(bg) (alárma) f.
  • Finnish: liikuttaa fi(fi)
  • German: bewegen de(de)
  • Hungarian: mozgat hu(hu), mozdít hu(hu)
  • Japanese: 動かす ja(ja) (ugokasu)
  • Latin: commoveō la(la)
  • Russian: двигать (dvígat') (impf.), двинуть (dvínut') (pf.); шевелить (šev'elít') (impf.), шевельнуть (šev'el'nút') (pf.)
To disturb the relative position of the particles of
  • Bulgarian: аларма bg(bg) (alárma) f.
  • Chinese: 攪, 搅 (jiǎo)
  • Finnish: sekoittaa fi(fi), hämmentää fi(fi)
  • French: remuer fr(fr)
  • German: rühren de(de)
  • Hungarian: kever hu(hu), kavar hu(hu)
  • Japanese: 掻き混ぜる ja(ja) (kaki-mazeru)
  • Russian: размешивать (razm'éšivat’) (impf.), размешать (razm'ešát’) (pf.)
  • Spanish: revolver es(es)
to agitate the contents of
To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot
  • German: hervorrufen de(de)
  • Japanese: 扇動する ja(ja) (sendō suru)
  • Russian: вызывать (vyzyvát') (impf.), вызвать (výzvat') (pf.); возбуждать (vozbuždát') (impf.), возбудить (vozbudít') (pf.)
To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite
  • Japanese: かき立てる ja(ja) (kakitateru)
  • Latin: commoveō la(la)
  • Russian: вызывать (vyzyvát') (impf.), вызвать (výzvat') (pf.)
To move; to change one’s position
  • Japanese: 動く ja(ja) (ugoku)
  • Russian: двигаться (dvígat's'a) (impf.), двинуться (dvínut's'a) (pf.); шевелиться (šev'elít's'a) (impf.), шевельнуться (šev'el'nút's'a) (pf.)
To be in motion
  • Japanese: 動き回る ja(ja) (ugoki-mawaru)
  • Russian: двигаться (dvígat's'a) (impf.), двинуться (dvínut's'a) (pf.); шевелиться (šev'elít's'a) (impf.), шевельнуться (šev'el'nút's'a) (pf.)
To become the object of notice; to be on foot
To rise, or be up, in the morning
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Translations to be checked
  • Korean: 휘젓다 (hwijeotta)
  • Portuguese: mexer
  • Spanish: revolver
  • Swedish: röra

Noun

stir (countable and uncountable; plural stirs)

  1. The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
    Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir? — Sir John Denham.
    Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of. —John Locke.
  2. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
    Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England. —Sir John Davies.
  3. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
Translations
The act or result of stirring
  • German: Erregung de(de)
  • Japanese: 撹拌 ja(ja) (kakuhan)
  • Russian: неразбериха (n'erazb'eríχa) f., суматоха (sumatóχa) f., суета (sujetá) f., переполох (p'er'epolóχ) m.
Public disturbance or commotion
  • German: Aufruhr de(de)
  • Japanese: 騒動 ja(ja) (sōdō)
  • Russian: волнения ru(ru) (voln'énija) pl.
Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions
  • French: tumulte fr(fr) m.
  • German: Erregung
  • Japanese: 騒動 ja(ja) (sōdō)
  • Russian: смятение (sm'at'énije) n.

Etymology 2

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Noun

stir (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Jail; prison.
    He's going to spendin' maybe ten years in stir.

Anagrams

Danish

Verb

stir

  1. Imperative of stirre

 

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