Stir

Definition: Stir

Stir

Noun

1. A disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused".

2. Emotional agitation and excitement.

3. A rapid bustling commotion.

Verb

1. Move with a stirring motion; "stir the soup".

2. Move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat".

3. Stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience".

4. Stir the feelings or emotions of; "These stories shook the community".

5. Affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy".

6. Evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic: "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "stir a disturbance"; "call down the spirits from the mountain".

7. To begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir".

8. Agitate; "toss the salad"; "stir nuts into the dough".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stir" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Personal Care & Hotels

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STIR

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Synonyms: Stir

Activity

Verb: be active; Adjective: busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about one, bustle, fuss; raise up, kick up a dust; push; make a push, make a fuss, make a stir; go ahead, push forward; fight one's way, elbow one's way; make progress; toll; (labor); plod, persist; (persevere) a; keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling.

Movement, bustle, stir, fuss, ado, bother, pottering, fidget, fidgetiness; flurry; (haste).

Agitation

Noun: agitation, stir, tremor, shake, ripple, jog, jolt, jar, jerk, shock, succussion, trepidation, quiver, quaver, dance; quassation; shuffling c. Verb: twitter, flicker, flutter.

Agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate.

Excitation

Verb: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.

Motion

Verb: be in motion; Adjective: move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll, roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander; (deviate); walk; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving;

Stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir; evolution; kinematics; telekinesis.

Physical Energy

Activity, agitation, effervescence; ferment, fermentation; ebullition, splutter, perturbation, stir, bustle; voluntary energy; quicksilver.

Crosswords: Stir

Indonesian (driving wheel).

Nonsense Una, just stir it. (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding)

My mom's cooking in my apartment, and she's going to make me stir something or form balls out of something (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

Caught in a place he cannot stir from in the dark, alone, outnumbered hundreds to one, nothing to live for but his memories, nothing to live with but his gadgets, his cars, his guns, gimmicks and yet the whole family can't bring him down from that, that-- (The Omega Man; writing credit: Richard Matheson; John William Corrington)

Don't forget, when you stir the Christmas pudding, make a wish (Do Not Adjust Your Set; writing credit: Terry Gilliam; Eric Idle)

I wish I didn't have to stir this pudding (Do Not Adjust Your Set; writing credit: Terry Gilliam; Eric Idle)

Stir Crazy (1985)

Stir It Up (performing artist: Johnny Nash)

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Books

• A Stir of Echoes (reference)

• Creating a Stir (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Stir News (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Stir of Echoes (reference)

• Stir of Echoes / The Blair Witch Project Double Bill (reference)

• Stir Crazy (reference)

• Stir of Echoes / The Ninth Gate (reference)

• Stir (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• To Stir a Dream (reference)

• Stir (reference)

• Stir It Up: The Music of Bob Marley (reference)

• Stir It Up-Music of Bob Marley [SACD] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• West Bend 82306X Stir Crazy 6-Quart Popcorn Popper (reference)

• All-Clad LTD 10-Inch Nonstick Open Stir Fry Pan (reference)

• Circulon Classic 11-Inch Nonstick Stir Fry Pan (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Figure 29. Dredging harrows used to stir up the bottom in order to capture the small crustaceans and other creatures that lived there. This instrument was fabricated at the Oceanographic Museum in 1939. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Then he sits in that car that won't stir a peg. Credit: Library of Congress.

There's nothing like a good race to stir the blood!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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But perhaps justice is denied, or I am crippled and cannot stir, robbed and have not the means to do it. (Second Treatise of Government)

The proletariat, the lowest stratum of our present society, cannot stir, cannot raise itself up, without the whole superincumbent strata of official society being sprung into the air. (reference)

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If they are not put off, he cannot stir.

The horse had his thighs broken, and could not stir.

The abdomen under the wings of the butterfly stir represents the larva

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Health

Don't stir up dust by sweeping up or vacuuming up droppings, urine or nesting materials. (references)

Economic History

Guyana

The sea wall that protects the low-lying, populous coastal region suffers breaches, especially during the rainy season from November to February as high tides and strong winds stir up strong waves. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

Under the Act, terrorist killings are punishable by death and any act, including speech, intended to stir up religious hatred, is punishable by up to 7 years' rigorous imprisonment. (references)

Hong Kong

Prior to the April hearing, the Government created a stir among human rights groups when a senior official wrote that U.N. committees' recommendations were not binding in international law. (references)

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Expressions using "stir": cause a stir ♦ create a stir ♦ give the fire a stir ♦ in stir ♦ make a stir ♦ not stir a finger ♦ stir a bath ♦ stir a finger ♦ stir emotions ♦ stir fry ♦ stir in ♦ stir one's stumps ♦ stir slowly ♦ stir smb.'s wrath ♦ stir the blood ♦ stir the fire ♦ stir the gorge ♦ stir the question ♦ stir things up ♦ stir up ♦ stir up a hornet's nest ♦ stir up a revolt ♦ stir up a tempest ♦ stir up quarrel ♦ stir up trouble ♦ To stir up a hornet's nest. Additional references.

Beginning with "stir": stir-crazy, stir-crazy', stir-fried, stir-fried random, stir-fries, stir-fry, stir-frying, stir-up.

Afrikaans

roer (actuate, curl, froth, move, whip, whirl), aangry (affect, agitate, move), bedrywigheid (activity, gusto, spirit, zest), animo (activity, gusto, soul, spirit, zest). (various references)

Albanian

shkaktoj (afflict, arouse, beget, breed, bring about, call forth, cause, contrive, create, do, draw, effectuate, engender, evoke, give, incur, induce, inflict, inspire, move, procure, produce, put, raise, sow, start, strike, unchain, work, wreak), trondit (appal, appall, concuss, overwhelm, rattle, shake, shake up, shock, stagger, touch), trazoj (agitate, break up, commingle, dash, dismay, distemper, disturb, fidget, flitter, flurry, fluster, flutter, harass, Harry, incommode, intermix, jumble, knead, perturb, poke, pother, ruffle, shuffle, turn, vex), trazohem, përzierje (admixture, amalgamation, blend, chow-chow, commixture, composite, compound, confection, conglomeration, fusion, hash, immixture, implication, interference, interfusion, intermixture, involvement, kneading, malaxation, medley, melange, mingle-mangle, mix, mixing, mixture, olio, omnium gatherum, pasticcio, pastiche, promiscuity, salmagundi, shuffle, stirring, temper), përziej (admix, adulterate, alloy, attemper, beat, blend, commingle, compound, confound, conglomerate, dash, drag in, embark, emulsify, implicate, intermingle, intermix, jumble, knead, malaxate, mingle, mix, shuffle), llokoçit (plash, squelcher, swash), llokoçis (plash, squelcher, swash), lëvizje (bustling, buzz, drift, flow, locomotion, motion, move, movement, removal, shifting, traffic, transfer), lëviz (budge, change place, dance, dodge, draft, draught, drive, go along, move, proceed, remove, step), gjallëroj (animate, enliven, ensoul, exhilarate, illumine, inspirit, liven, liven up, move, pep, quicken, relieve, renew, revive, rouse, set about, smarten up, spirit, spiritualize, sting, tense, vitalize, vivify, warm up), burg (cage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, gaol, jail, limbo, lockup, mill, Nick, pen, penitentiary, poky, prison, prison house, quod). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حرض (abet, egg on, flesh, foment, incite, instigate, motive, provoke, rouse, set, spark, suborn), ‏أثار الشفقة (piteous, pitiful, touch), ‏أضرم (kindle, make), ‏إثارة (aggravation, agitation, excitation, excitement, instigation, irritation, provocation, splash, stirring, thrilling, trepidation), ‏إهتياج (access, ado, agitation, bother, bustling, commotion, delirium, dither, ebullience, effervescence, excitation, exciting, ferment, fermentation, flurry, fuss, great rage, in a state, ramp, rampage, sensation, willies), ‏ضجة (ado, botcher, bother, clutter, din, hullabaloo, hustle, noise, pother, racket, roar, row, rumor, rumour, rumpus, sensation, shindy, sound, storm, titbit, tumult), ‏رعشة (jerk, shiver, shudder, thrill, tremble), ‏تحرك (get about, locomotion, move, movement, proceed, shift, wag), ‏مزج بالتحريك, ‏حرك (actuate, agitate, drive, induce, jostle, mobilize, motivate, toss, turn, vex, whet), ‏حرك الشعور, ‏حركة (activity, business, dash, drift, motion, move, movement), ‏حث (actuate, admonish, debriefing, dub, encourage, encouragement, goad, gun, hurry, impel, incitation, incite, induce, induce to speak, inducement, interest, motivate, motivation, motive, persuade, precipitate, press, prod, prompt, prompting, propel, provocation, provoke, push on, recommend, rouse, solicit, solicitation, spur, stimulate, stimulation, tempt), ‏نشاط (action, activity, alacrity, bang, bounce, energy, forcefulness, ginger, go, kick, lift, liveliness, mettle, momentum, movement, pep, promptitude, prosperity, pursuit, spirit, spunk, strenuousness, tuck, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, virility, zip), ‏هز (agitate, bob, concuss, convulse, jolt, rattle, ring, rock, shake, shock, swing, twitter, vibrate, wag, waggle), ‏سجن (be imprisoned, can, clap, clink, confine, cooler, detain, detention, gaol, hatch, hock, immure, imprison, imprisonment, incarcerate, incarceration, intern, internment, jail, jug, lock up, lockup, log cabin, mure, nick, penitentiary, pokey, prison, quod, send up, throw). (various references)

Bulgarian 

възбуждам (actuate, agitate, arouse, engage, enkindle, excite, ferment, heat, inflame, irritate, key up, pique, provoke, raise, set up, stimulate, sting, thrill, turn on), движа (impel, move, ply, run, work), движа се (bear, fluctuate, forge ahead, get about, go, heave, move, navigate, ride, run, set, travel, walk, work), движение (course, go, impulsion, locomotion, motion, move, movement, propulsion, race, way, working), пандиз (pokey, shop), помръдвам се (budge, move a bit), пораждам (beget, breed, call forth, cause, engender, evoke, gender, generate, give birth, give rise to, give to rise, originate, produce, prompt, provoke, raise, sow, start up), пораждам се (start up), бъркам (churn, make, mistake, mix, mix up, paddle, rabble, rouse, shuffle), бъркане, нарушавам покоя на, объркване (abashment, addlement, bewilderment, commotion, confusion, discomfiture, dislocation, embarrassment, embroilment, entanglement, fuddle, involution, maze, tizzy, tumble), вълнение (agitation, commotion, dither, emotion, excitement, ferment, flurry, gurgitation, heartbeat, lather, nervousness, perturbation, pother, pulse, roughness, snit, surge, tear, throb, to-do, trouble, tumult, turmoil, unrest, upset), дандания (hullabaloo, hurly burly), възбуда (agitation, animation, boiling, emotion, excitement, fume, inflammation, inquietude, jag, lather), суетене (ado, coil, fiddle-faddle, fidget, fuss), възниквам (arise, come into being, emerge, rise), шавам (budge, fidget, shuffle, wiggle), шетня (chore, scurry), шум (ado, ballyhoo, bobbery, boom, buzz, clam, coil, discord, murmur, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, pother, rattle, reclame, row, sound, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar), раздвижвам (agitate, fluctuate, jog, quicken, rouse, shake up, stir up trouble, wake, whip up, work on, work up), раздвижвам се (bestir, bestir oneself, buck up, hot, irrupt, move, stretch one's legs), раздвижване (limbering up, movement, rouse, shake up, uplift), размесвам (agitate, interfuse, intermingle, intermix, mix, trouble, work up), размътвам (addle, mud, muddle, muddy, obfuscate, puddle), ръчкане (prod), сензация (boom, hit, sensation, shine, splash), уплаха (affright, alarm, fright, jitters, scare, shock), вълнувам (affect, agitate, excite, perturb, ripple, trouble, vex, work up). (various references)

Chinese 

轟動 (sensation), 搅动 (Churn, Churned, churned-up, Churning, slosh, sloshed, stirred, stirring), �"� (to pound), 搗 (attack, beat, disturb, hull, pound). (various references)

Czech

vyvolat (bring, bring about, call, call forth, call up, cause, develop, draw, evoke, induce, initiate, invite, raise, start), vyburcovat (alarm, arouse, rouse), třepetat (flap, quiver), rozruch (agitation, backwash, excitement, fermentation, flap, flurry, fuss, hullabaloo, kick up), rozèeřit, probudit (arouse, awake, drum up, rouse, wake, waken), povzbudit (buck up, cheer up, embolden, encourage, hearten, sharpen, spirit, stimulate, whet), pohyb (exercise, gesture, locomotion, motion, move, movement, snap it up, travel), pohnout se (budge), pobouření (exasperation, indignant, indignation), odejít (come away, come off, depart, go away, go off, go out, leave, make one's exit, make tracks for, move away, move off, quit, retire, to leave, vacate, walk away, walk off), míchat (agitate, blend, intermingle), míchání (agitation, mix, mixture, shuffle), hnutí (movement), hýbat se (move). (various references)

Danish

stimulere (abet, rouse, stimulate, stir up). (various references)

Dutch

roeren (curl, froth, whip, whirl), ontroeren (affect, agitate, move), bewegen (actuate, affect, agitate, move). (various references)

Esperanto

vigleco (activity, gusto, spirit, zest), kirli (curl, froth, whip, whirl), emocii (move). (various references)

Faeroese

røra (actuate, curl, froth, move, whip, whirl), píska (curl, froth, whip, whirl). (various references)

Farsi 

فعالیت (Activity), حرکت دادن (Move, Propel, Rouse), حرکت (Behavior, Demeanour, Departure, Gesture, Locomotion, Motion, Move, Movement, Poke, Progress, Stroke), تکان دادن (Budge, Convulse, Hitch, Hustle, Impulse, Jar, Jolt, Jounce, Move, Shake, Startle, Twiddle, Wag, Wiggle), تحریک کردن یاشدن , جم خوردن (Budge), جنبش (Braid, Bustle, Cause, Commotion, Flicker, Jar, Jiggle, Locomotion, Motion, Move, Movement, Rock, Tremor, Vibration), بهم زدن (Disturb, Overthrow, Poach, Poke, Rough, Rouse, Roust, Rummage, Unmake), به جنبش دراوردن , بجوش اوردن . (various references)

Finnish

liikuttaa (actuate, concern, move, touch). (various references)

French

remuer, affecter, émouvoir (stir up). (various references)

Frisian

belangstelling (account, activity, gusto, interest, spirit, zest), animo (activity, gusto, spirit, zest). (various references)

German

rühren (affect, agitate, beat, budge, move, stir up, to budge, touch, touch on), Bewegung (affection, agitation, emotion, evolution, exercise, gesture, motion, move, movement, pass, progress), bewegen (actuate, affect, budge, concern, exercise, incline, induce, move, move about, move around, moved, persuade, prompt, shake, shift, to budge, to induce, to move), Aufregung (agitation, commotion, discomposure, dither, excitement, fermentation, flap, flurry, fuss, inflammation, pother). (various references)

Greek 

κινώ (bestir, budge, drive, motivate, move, propel, wag), κινούμαι (bestir, bestir oneself, budge, move), σάλοσ (agitation, tumult), σαλεύω (budge, shake), πάταγος (clatter, crash, din), φυλακή (bagnio, brig, calaboose, clink, cooler, coop, gaol, hock, hoosegow, jail, jail house, jug, prison, quod), εξεγείρω (arouse, revolt, rouse), ανακινώ (agitate, moot, touch on), ανακατεύω (admix, blend, churn, mix, muddle, pie, ruffle, scramble, shuffle the cards), αναδεύω (agitate), ταράσσω (abash, agitate, confound, discompose, disconcert, disturb, flurry, flutter, jar, roil, ruffle, shock), ταράσσομαι (flutter, fret, wince), ταραχή (agitation, apprehension, bustle, coil, commotion, consternation, disturbance, flurry, fluster, flutter, frenzy, fuss, outbreak, perturbation, pother, restlessness, riot, row, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scrimmage, trepidation, trouble, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, welter). (various references)

Hawaiian

agjitoj (abet, agitate, incite, stir up). (various references)

Hebrew 

לבחוש (mix, muddle), רחש (commotion, feeling, rustle, whisper), רחיש�" (creeping, moving, swarming, trembling), רעש (din, fuss, noise, shock, storm, tang, tumult, uproar), בחיש�" (mixing, stirring), �"תר�'שות (emotion, excitement, flurry, flutter), ת� וע�" (fluctuation, kinesis, locomotion, motion, move, movement, moving, traffic), ל� ער (agitate, shake), ל� עור (shake out), � יע�" (locomotion, lurch, motion, move, movement, moving), לר�'ש (excite, rage, sensitize, storm), מ�"ומ�" (ado, bedlam, din, disturbance, fracas, mess, muss, pandemonium, riot, rout, ruction, trouble, tumble, turmoil), לבלול (jumble, mash, mingle, mix), ל�'וס (break), ל�"� י�" (nod), ל�"� יע (activate, disturb, drive, impel, induce, motivate, prompt, propel, set in motion, urge), ל�"תעורר (arise, awake, bestir, get up, wake, waken), לזוז (budge, go away, move, shift), לזוע (move, quake, shudder, tremble), לערבב (blend, confuse, jumble, mess, mingle, mix, muddle, scramble, temper), למרס (mix, squeeze), ל� וע (get about, get around, move, range, rove, tremble, wander). (various references)

Hungarian

kavarás (squeezing), szenzáció (beat, out-and-outer, sensation), siti (big house, can, jug, nick, pen, quad, zoo), sürgölődés (hurry, to-do), keverés (compounding, mixing, shuffle, stirring), kavarodás (hassle, hurly-burly, mix-up, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, scrimmage, scrum, tangled skein, turmoil), felbolydulás (commotion, to-do, trepidancy, trepidation, trepidity). (various references)

Indonesian

menggegerkan (cause a commotion), kehebohan (ado, furor, fuss), golakan (seething, violent move), gemparan (tumult), arun (mix in). (various references)

Italian

muovere (actuate, Bob, bring up, budge, drive, induce, move, raise, shift), incitare (abet, animate, egg, embolden, excite, goad, hound, impel, incite, lash, prompt, provoke, rouse, spur, stimulate, sting, stir up, tempt), agitare (agitate, become upset, convulse, discompose, excite, flap, flirt, fluster, flutter, fly, fret, Frisk, get excited, lash, rattle, ruffle, shake, shake up, swing, toss, upset, wag, waggle, wave, wave about, wave around). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

響動めき (commotion), 響めき (commotion), �"�拌 (agitate, beat, whip), 奮激 (inspire, rouse). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふ�"�'き (fierce attack, fury, inspire, rouse), どよめき (commotion), かくは�" (agitate, agitation, all, beat, each clan, every, stirring, various, whip, whipping). (various references)

Korean 

약동하십시�". (various references)

Manx

seiy (agitate, bear down, churn, churning, foment, fomentation, gore, gore of bull, knife, litter, lunge, mix up, mixing, mixture, muddy; pushing, prod, propel, propulsion, protrusion, push, shove, shoving, stab, stick, stir up, thrust, tilt, tilting, transfix), musthaa (bustle, carry on, display, excitement, flap, fluster, fuss, hullabaloo, muster, pomposity, pompousness, row, rumpus, shindy, strife, tumult), mestey (churning, compound, confuse, cross-breed, dispense, garble, hybridize, interlace, jumble, mash, miscellany, mix, mixture, promiscuity, shuffle), lheil, greesaghey (abet, accelerate, agitate, drive, egg on, excitation, excite, excitement, fire, fire enthusiasm, foment, fomentation, foster, incentive, incite, instigate, instigation, press, prod, provocation, provoke, stir up), grees, gleayshaghey, gleashagh (affecting, locomotive, moving, stirring, touching), foostyr (fidget). (various references)

Maya

huuyt (to stir). (various references)

Papiamen

emoshoná (move), ánimo (activity, gusto, spirit, zest). (various references)

Pig Latin

irstay.(various references)

Portuguese

mexer (actuate, blend, brandish, curl, disturb, fling, froth, mingle, mix, move, shuffle, swing, touch, wave, whip, whirl, wiggle), agitar (abet, agitate, alarm, beat, brandish, bustle, churn, cob, commove, convulse, dimple, discompose, excite, faze, ferment, flap, flick, fling, flounce, flourish, flurry, flutter, fret, incite, jar, jingle, jounce, moot, perturb, pulsate, quiver, ripple, shake, stir up, sway, swing, switch, toss, ventilate, waggle, wave, whip up, whisk). (various references)

Romanian

mişca (advance, agitate, budge, draw, endeavor, endeavour, excite, hit, jump, live, melt, move, pan, perturb, quicken, remove, touch, transport, wag, whirl, work), emoţiona (affect, agitate, alarm, excite, flutter, move, thrill, touch). (various references)

Russian 

шевелить (jiggle, stirs). (various references)

Scottish

gluais (affect, agitate, move, put in motion), caraich (move). (various references)

Sepedi

hudua (to stir). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zatvor (calaboose, choky, clink, confinement, cooler, coop, jail, lockup, obstipation, prison, prison house, quod, stockade), zamutiti (bedim, dim, grow dim, mix, roil), uzbuna (alarm, shakeup, uproar), uzbuditi (affect, disturb, excite, stir up, thrill, touch), razmutiti (mix), promešati (stir up), podstaći (abet, enforce, exhort, fire, foment, galvanize, goad, incite to, induce, instigate, pique, spark, stoke, whet), micati se (move), mešati (alloy, blend, jumble, mingle, mix, puddle, rabble, shuffle), maknuti (move), komešanje (fuss), izmešati (blend, brew, commingle, compound, mix), gužva (affray, brawl, crowd, crush, jam, melee, pother, row, shindy, squeeze, tussle), žariti (calcine, stoke, torrefy). (various references)

Shona

-kurunga (to stir). (various references)

Spanish

conmover (affect, agitate, move, Pierce, shake, thrill, touch), remover (dig, rake over, rake up, remove, stir up). (various references)

Swazi

kú-gojotîsa (to stir). (various references)

Swedish

uppståndelse (commotion, excitement, flurry, fuss, resurrection, rising, sensation, stink, to-do), omröra. (various references)

Turkish

kıpırdatmak (move, wiggle, wriggle), canlanmak (bestir oneself, brighten, brighten up, buck up, come to life, firm, freshen, kick up one's heels, kindle, liven, liven up, perk, perk oneself, perk oneself up, perk up, quicken, refresh, revive, rouse, rouse oneself, rouse up, wake, wake up), delik (aperture, bore, cavity, den, hole, hollow, mortice, mortise, opening, perforation, port, prick, prison, slot, vent, ventage, venthole), hapishane (bull pen, cage, can, choky, clink, cooler, coop, gaol, institution, jail, Nick, pen, penal institution, penitentiary, pound, prison, quod, roundhouse, shop, stockade, tank, ward), hareket ettirmek (budge, drive, motivate, wag), hareketlenme, heyecan (affect, agitation, animation, Ardor, ardour, bang, commotion, dither, drama, emotion, enthusiasm, exaltation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, fire, flap, flurry, flush, flutter, furor, furore, glow, kick, pucker, razzle-dazzle, rhapsody, ruffle, sensation, shiver, spice, spring tide, taking, tension, the shivers, thrill, tingle, twitter, vibes, vibration, wallop, warmth, yeast), heyecana kapılmak, heyecanlandırmak (carry away, electrify, exalt, excite, ferment, flush, hot up, impassion, inebriate, key up, Spike, stir up, sweep away, sweep off, thrill, tickle up, transport, turn on, unsettle, warm up, wind up, work up), heyecanlanmak (be excited, be hyped up, flush, fluster, get excited, hot up, loose countenance, take on, thrill, work oneself up), canlılık (alacrity, animation, bounce, brightness, brio, buoyancy, color, colour, crispness, dynamics, elan, exhilaration, friskiness, ginger, life, liveliness, lustiness, perkiness, quickness, raciness, richness, saturation, spiritedness, sprightliness, stamina, verve, vivacity, vividness), kımıldatmak (budge, move, wriggle), uyanmak (awake, awaken, revive, rouse, rouse up, wake, wake up, waken), karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, indiscrimination, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pie, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upheaval, upset, wooliness, woolliness), karıştırma (admixture, adulteration, browsing, combination, commixture, compound, confusion, intermixture, mix, mixing, mixture, shuffle, shuffling, stirring), karıştırmak (add, admix, amalgamate, blend, churn, commingle, commix, complicate, concoct, confound, confuse, darken, diffuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, disturb, embroil, entangle, ferret about, foul, foul up, hash, implicate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, inweave, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, knot, litter, make hay of smth., meld, mess, mess smth. about, mess up, mingle, mistake, mix, mix up, monkey around with, monkey with, muddle, muss, pick, poke, poke up, Ravel, ruffle, scramble, scramble together, scramble up, shuffle, snarl, stir up, tamper with, tangle, tousle, trim, tumble, unsettle, weave), kaynaşma (contraction, fusion, mixture), kodes (bull pen, cage, can, choky, clink, cooler, gaol, hole, jail, jug, pen, prison, quod), oynatmak (budge, dance, dandle, dislocate, make play, move, run, screen, wiggle, work, wriggle), patırtı (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, coil, disorder, dustup, fracas, noise, plump, riot, roughhouse, row, rumpus, sound and fury, to-do, tumult, welter), telaş (ado, alarm, bustle, commotion, directness, discomposure, disturbance, excitement, ferment, fever, flap, flurry, flutter, fume, fuss, fussiness, haste, hastiness, helter-skelter, hurry, panic, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, pucker, racket, ruffle, rush, storm, taking, tingle, tizzy, to-do, turmoil, whirl), uyandırmak (arouse, awake, awaken, call, disabuse, disabuse of, evoke, excite, inspire, kindle, knock up, provoke, quicken, recall, revive, rouse, rouse up, spark, stir up, undeceive, wake, wake up, waken, whet), kımıldamak (budge, move, play, stir one's stumps). (various references)

Turkmen 

gymyldamak (budge), bulamak (mix). (various references)

Ukrainian

розмішувати (mix up, poach), розмішування, ворушіння, ворушитися (budge), ворушити (move, rake up), метушня (ado, alarm, bustle, buzz, clutter, flurry, fuss, helter-skelter, hurly burly, muss, razzle, razzle-dazzle, romps, rough and tumble, splutter, stirabout, to-do, turmoil, whirl). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự xôn xao (flurry, fluster, perturbation), sự huyên náo (affray, bobbery, riotousness, row-de-dow, shindy, shine, shone, tempest, to-do), trại giam sự khuấy. (various references)

Welsh

syflyd (budge, move), ystwyrian (stretch and yawn), ystw+r (bustle, fuss, noise), ysgogi (actuate, animate, move), ymod (move), cynnwrf (agitation, commotion), cynhyrfu (agitate), cyffroi (actuate, agitate, arouse, bestir, disturb, excite, move, provoke), cyffro (excitement, motion), cychwyn (rise, start), chwimio (accelerate, move). (various references)

agitabit, agitabitur, agitati, arma, armabit, armabitur, armabuntur, armamini, armatam, armate, armati, armatis, armatos, armatura, armaturam, armatus, armavit, armo, excito, moram, moras, more, moris, morisque, moro, mose, mota, motabilem, motae, moti, motio, motu, motum, motus, moveamini, movearis, moveat, moveatur, movebant, movebantur, movebatur, movebit, movebitur, movebo, movebor, movebunt, movebuntur, movemini, movemur, movenda, movens, movent, moventes, moventur, movere, moverem, moverentur, moveret, moveri, moveris, moverit, moverunt, moveruntque, moves, movete, movetur, movissent, movit, versa, versabantur, versabatur, versandos, versantur, versaque, versari, versaris, versasti, versati, versatur, versatus. (various references)

hreran, onhreran. (various references)

bougier. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "stir": stirabout, stirabouts, stirk, stirks, stirp, stirpes, stirps, stirred, stirrer, stirrers, stirring, stirringly, stirrup, stirrups, stirs. (additional references)

Words ending with "stir": astir, bestir, overstir, upstir. (additional references)

Words containing "stir": bestirred, bestirring, bestirs, overstirred, overstirring, overstirs, postirradiation, upstirred, upstirring, upstirs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stir" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: esti, estira, Estoi, gtir, sair, Sairr, Satir, sdr, Shtib, sirq, sirr, sirv, sitr, smir, smirr, soir, spir, srit, stear, stehr, steir, sterl, sterr, sti, stia, stib, stic, stie, stier, stif, stig, stik, stim, stio, stip, stiq, stire, stiri, stirn, stiro, stirr, stit, stiv, stix, stiy, stiz, stoi, storq, str, strig, strim, sturr, styf, styg, styr, suir, swir, tir, tirr, Tsi, tsir. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: its, sir, sit, sri, tis.

-2 letters: is, it, si, ti.

+1 letter: airts, astir, brits, dirts, first, frits, girts, grist, grits, rifts, riots, rites, rotis, shirt, sitar, skirt, spirt, sprit, stair, stirk, stirp, stirs, stria, strip, tarsi, tiers, tires, tirls, tiros, torsi, tries, trigs, trims, trios, trips, trois, wrist, writs.

+2 letters: afrits, airest, airths, aorist, arista, aristo, artist, aurist, bestir, births, bister, bistre, bistro, biters, britts, bruits, citers, citrus, crista, direst, driest, drifts,