stirred up

Adjective Satellite

Meaning

emotionally aroused

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Inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages. John Milton

It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up. Al Sharpton

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. George Santayana

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction. John Boyd Orr

There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent. Robert Heilbroner

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