stir
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(verb) agitate; "toss the salad"; "stir nuts into the dough" |
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Synonyms: toss |
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Related Words: agitate, beat, churn, commove, disturb, paddle, poke, raise up, scramble, shake up, stir up |
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(verb) move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" |
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Synonyms: agitate, budge, shift |
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Related Words: move |
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(verb) move with a stirring motion; "stir the soup" |
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Related Words: displace, move |
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(noun) emotional agitation and excitement |
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Related Words: agitation, electricity, sensation |
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(verb) affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy" |
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Synonyms: touch |
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Related Words: affect, get, impress, move, strike |
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(verb) to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir" |
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Synonyms: arouse |
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Related Words: move |
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(verb) stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience" |
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Synonyms: excite, stimulate |
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Related Words: blow, disgust, fellate, go down on, jack off, jerk off, masturbate, quicken, repel, revolt, sensitize, she-bop, thrill, turn off, wank, whet |
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(verb) evoke or call forth: "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance" |
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Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, invoke, put forward, raise |
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Related Words: create, make |
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(verb) as of senses or emotions; "These stories shook the community" |
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Synonyms: excite, shake, shake up, stimulate |
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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 |
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(noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused" |
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Synonyms: commotion, disruption, disturbance, hurly burly, to-do, turmoil |
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Related Words: disorder, garboil, incident, storm, storm center, storm centre, tempest, tumult, tumultuousness, uproar |
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(noun) a rapid bustling commotion |
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Synonyms: ado, bustle, flurry, fuss, hustle |
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Related Words: commotion, din, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, tumult |
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