to stir

Synonyms

move conferruminated

Examples

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? Bertrand Russell

But when the country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir. Thomas Paine

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories. William McFee

Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission. Robert Blair

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. P. G. Wodehouse

The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir. Carl Sagan

Words in the phrase

to stir

Close letter words and terms

to starve to still to stimulate to stop the mouth to storm to strengthen