stirred

3 definitions found

stirred - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  agitated \agitated\ adj.
     1. troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of
        unagitated. agitated parents
  
     Note: Narrower terms are: demoniac, demoniacal ; distraught, overwrought; {disturbed, jolted, shaken
           ; feverish, hectic
           ; frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied;
           psychedelic ; {rampageous, raging, frenzied ; {wild-eyed . Also See: discomposed, excited, impatient, tense, unquiet, unsteady. [WordNet 1.5]  2. 1 throwing oneself from side to side.  Syn: tossing   [WordNet 1.5]  3. physically disturbed or set in motion; as, the agitated  mixture foamed and bubbled. Opposite of {unagitated
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        left alone, allowed to stand.
  
     Note: [Narrower terms are: churning, churned-up, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent ; {stirred
           .]
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  Stir \Stir\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stirred; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Stirring.] [OE. stiren, steren, sturen, AS. styrian;
     probably akin to D. storen to disturb, G. st["o]ren, OHG.
     st[=o]ren to scatter, destroy. [root]166.]
     1. To change the place of in any manner; to move.
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              My foot I had never yet in five days been able to
              stir.                                 --Sir W.
                                                    Temple.
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     2. To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as
        of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate;
        as, to stir a pudding with a spoon.
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              My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred.
                                                    --Shak.
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     3. To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
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              Stir not questions of jurisdiction.   --Bacon.
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     4. To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt;
        to excite. "To stir men to devotion." --Chaucer.
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              An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife. --Shak.
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              And for her sake some mutiny will stir. --Dryden.
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     Note: In all senses except the first, stir is often followed
           by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to
           stir up sedition.
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     Syn: To move; incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate;
          excite; provoke.
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stirred - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  stirred
      adj 1: being excited or provoked to the expression of an
             emotion; "too moved to speak"; "very touched by the
             stranger's kindness" [syn: moved(p), affected,
             stirred, touched] [ant: unaffected, unmoved(p),
             untouched]
      2: emotionally aroused [syn: stimulated, stirred, stirred   up
         , aroused]
      3: set into a usually circular motion in order to mix or blend