- 3. Discuss, argue, moot, start, raise, agitate, bring into debate.
- 4. Instigate, incite, excite, rouse, arouse, awaken, prompt, stimulate, provoke, animate, goad, spur, stir
up, set on.
Stir, v. n.
- 1. Move, budge, go, change place, change one’s position, move one’s self.
- 2. Be active, be in motion.
- 3. Appear, happen, turn up, come into notice.
- 4. (Colloq.) Rise (from bed in the morning), get up.
Stir, n.
- 1. Agitation, tumult, bustle, excitement, confusion, hurry, movement, activity, flurry, ado, fidget, fuss.
- 2. Disorder, tumult, uproar, commotion, public disturbance, seditious commotion.
- 3. Agitation of mind, conflict of passions.
Stir-about, n. Porridge.
Stirring, a.
- 1. Active, lively, brisk, smart, industrious, diligent.
- 2. Animating, arousing, awakening, stimulating, quickening, exciting.
Stir up.
- 1. Incite, instigate, animate, put in action, excite, quicken, awaken, move, rouse, provoke, stimulate.
- 2. Disturb.
- 3. Begin, put into action.
- 4. Quicken, enliven.