stir

1. (verb) agitate; "toss the salad"; "stir nuts into the dough"
Synonyms: toss
Related Words: agitate, beat, churn, commove, disturb, paddle, poke, raise up, scramble, shake up, stir up

2. (verb) move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat"
Synonyms: agitate, budge, shift
Related Words: move

3. (verb) move with a stirring motion; "stir the soup"
Related Words: displace, move

4. (noun) emotional agitation and excitement
Related Words: agitation, electricity, sensation

5. (verb) affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"
Synonyms: touch
Related Words: affect, get, impress, move, strike

6. (verb) to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir"
Synonyms: arouse
Related Words: move

7. (verb) stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"
Synonyms: excite, stimulate
Related Words: blow, disgust, fellate, go down on, jack off, jerk off, masturbate, quicken, repel, revolt, sensitize, she-bop, thrill, turn off, wank, whet

8. (verb) evoke or call forth: "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"
Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, invoke, put forward, raise
Related Words: create, make

9. (verb) as of senses or emotions; "These stories shook the community"
Synonyms: excite, shake, shake up, stimulate
Related Words: affright, animate, arouse, arouse, elate, elicit, enkindle, enliven, evoke, exalt, excite, fire, fright, frighten, fuel, inspire, intoxicate, invigorate, invite, kindle, lift up, pick up, provoke, raise, scare, sex, tempt, thrill, tickle, titillate, turn on, uplift, wind up

10. (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"
Synonyms: commotion, disruption, disturbance, hurly burly, to-do, turmoil
Related Words: disorder, garboil, incident, storm, storm center, storm centre, tempest, tumult, tumultuousness, uproar

11. (noun) a rapid bustling commotion
Synonyms: ado, bustle, flurry, fuss, hustle
Related Words: commotion, din, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, tumult



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