stir up

(tr, adverb) to set in motion; instigate he stirred up trouble

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Verb	1.	stir up - try to stir up public opinion agitate, foment provoke, stimulate - provide the needed stimulus for rumpus - cause a disturbance
	2.	stir up - arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred" fire up, heat, ignite, wake, inflame arouse, elicit, evoke, provoke, enkindle, kindle, fire, raise - call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" ferment - work up into agitation or excitement; "Islam is fermenting Africa"
	3.	stir up - change the arrangement or position of raise up, commove, disturb, vex, shake up, agitate scramble, beat - stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" toss - agitate; "toss the salad" rile, roil - make turbid by stirring up the sediments of poke - stir by poking; "poke the embers in the fireplace" move, displace - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"
	4.	stir up - provoke or stir up; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people" instigate, incite, set off provoke, stimulate - provide the needed stimulus for raise - activate or stir up; "raise a mutiny"

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? stir up

vt sep

liquid, mixture → umrühren; cream → rühren, schlagen; mud → aufwühlen

(fig) curiosity, attention, anger, controversy → erregen; memories, the past → wachrufen; opposition, discord → entfachen, erzeugen; hatred → schüren; revolution, revolt → anzetteln; mob → aufstacheln; lazy person → aufrütteln; to stir up trouble → Unruhe stiften; to stir somebody up to do something → jdn dazu anstacheln, etw zu tun; that’ll stir things up → das kann heiter werden!; he’s always trying to stir things up among the workers → er versucht immer, die Arbeiter aufzuhetzen

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affected
agitate
Annoyer
arouse
churn
evoke
excite
foment
go down on
incite
masturbate
paddle
provoke
raise
rousing
shake up
she-bop
soul-stirring
stimulate

Come, then, let us set him free upon the dark shore at once: do not lay hands on him, lest he grow angry and stir up dangerous winds and heavy squalls.

Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context

The objects of geometrical inquiry are so entirely abstracted from those pursuits which stir up and put in motion the unruly passions of the human heart, that mankind, without difficulty, adopt not only the more simple theorems of the science, but even those abstruse paradoxes which, however they may appear susceptible of demonstration, are at variance with the natural conceptions which the mind, without the aid of philosophy, would be led to entertain upon the subject.

Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context

Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs, in some manner, I know not how, may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.

Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context