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Stirring   /stˈərɪŋ/   Listen
Stirring

adjective
1.
Capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement.  Synonym: rousing.  "Stirring events such as wars and rescues"
2.
Exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions.  Synonym: soul-stirring.
noun
1.
Agitating a liquid with an implement.
2.
Arousing to a particular emotion or action.  Synonym: inspiration.


Stir

verb
(past & past part. stirred; pres. part. stirring)
1.
Move an implement through.  "Stir my drink" , "Stir the soil"
2.
Move very slightly.  Synonyms: agitate, budge, shift.
3.
Stir feelings in.  Synonyms: excite, stimulate.  "Excite the audience" , "Stir emotions"
4.
Stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.  Synonyms: excite, shake, shake up, stimulate.  "The civil war shook the country"
5.
Affect emotionally.  Synonym: touch.  "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"
6.
Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic.  Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise.  "He conjured wild birds in the air" , "Call down the spirits from the mountain"
7.
To begin moving,.  Synonym: arouse.
8.
Mix or add by stirring.



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"Stirring" Quotes from Famous Books



... order to join the Emperor Alexander at Wilna, and again lay before him the proposals of peace. It was necessary to let the grass grow —to let the sun dry the roads—to give Napoleon's emissaries the opportunity of acting on the minds of the Poles, and stirring up amongst them a national movement in favor of France, a mission to which Abbe Pradt, afterwards Bishop of Malines, had been appointed. Talleyrand, of whom the emperor at first thought, did not then enjoy his good graces. "Set out, my ...
— Worlds Best Histories - France Vol 7 • M. Guizot and Madame Guizot De Witt
... morning, with hardly a breath of wind stirring, and the savages were lolling about on the shore. Their canoes were run up on the sands, and there was an aspect of calm and repose ...
— The Adventures of Don Lavington - Nolens Volens • George Manville Fenn
... our entrance into Caudebec. The present opens with a morning scene at the same place. For a miracle I was stirring before nine. The church was the first object of attraction. For the size of the place, it is really a noble structure: perhaps of the early part of the sixteenth, or latter part of the fifteenth century.[85] ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... stirring cry of "Prepare ship for action!" was passed along the decks. Every one in a moment was full of activity. The cabin bulk-heads were knocked away, fire-screens were put up, the doors of the magazine were thrown open, and powder and ...
— Will Weatherhelm - The Yarn of an Old Sailor • W.H.G. Kingston
... at work. Slugs leave their lair— The bees are stirring—birds are on the wing— And Winter, slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy


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