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Stirred

adjective

1.

Being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion. Synonyms: affected, moved, touched. "Very touched by the stranger's kindness"

2.

Emotionally aroused. Synonyms: aroused, stimulated, stirred up.

3.

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

Stir

verb

(past & past part. stirred; pres. part. stirring)

1.

Move an implement through. "Stir my drink" , "Stir the soil"

2.

Move very slightly. Synonyms: agitate, budge, shift.

3.

Stir feelings in. Synonyms: excite, stimulate. "Excite the audience" , "Stir emotions"

4.

Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of. Synonyms: excite, shake, shake up, stimulate. "The civil war shook the country"

5.

Affect emotionally. Synonym: touch. "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"

6.

Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic. Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise. "He conjured wild birds in the air" , "Call down the spirits from the mountain"

7.

To begin moving,. Synonym: arouse.

8.

Mix or add by stirring.

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"Stirred" Quotes from Famous Books

... defeat, I ordered General Smith to go out from Memphis and renew the offensive, so as to keep Forrest off our roads. This he did finally, defeating Forrest at Tupelo, on the 13th, 14th, and 15th days of July; and he so stirred up matters in North Mississippi that Forrest could not leave for Tennessee. This, for a time, left me only the task of covering the roads against such minor detachments of cavalry as Johnston could spare from his immediate army, and I proposed to keep these too busy in their own ...

— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman

... admission as a solicitor (the circumstances required his being under articles for three years only), and then, if everything were still favourable, accept a junior partnership in the firm. Such an offer was a testimony of the high regard in which Scawthorne was held by his employer; it stirred him with hope he had never dared to entertain since his eyes were opened to the realities of the world, and in a single day did more for the ripening of his prudence than years would have effected had his position remained unaltered. Scawthorne realised more distinctly ...

— The Nether World • George Gissing

... a plain hint, and in an ordinary way Phoby Geen would have taken it. But the devil stirred him up to remember the insult he'd received from Amelia Sanders that very day; and by and by, as he walked home to Porthleah, there came into his mind a far wickeder thought. Partners though he and Dan'l were, each owned ...

— Merry-Garden and Other Stories • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... A strange emotion stirred her, a sudden quickening of the pulse told her that something new had come into her life. She drew a deep, startled breath and felt her cheeks crimsoning. She swiftly turned her head and gazed out over the flat, leaving him standing there, ...

— The Two-Gun Man • Charles Alden Seltzer

... with mop and towel, stirred up everybody else to duty. Her niece-in-law laughed, withdrew her feet from the comfortable fender, and departed to the kitchen to give her household orders for the day. Faith removed cups, glasses, ...

— Faith Gartney's Girlhood • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

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