stir
/stɝ/ noun C2- The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.) · Can you give the soup a little stir?
- agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements. · 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem). Why all these words, this clamour, and this stir?
- Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
- Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
Plural stirs
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At first the little creatures, many though they were, could hardly stir the heavily loaded truck; but the Woodman and the Scarecrow both pushed from behind, and they got along better.
His head and arms and legs were jointed upon his body, but he stood perfectly motionless, as if he could not stir at all.
“This case will make a stir, sir,” he remarked.
You’re to go over this evening if you like for Diana can’t stir outside the door on account of a bad cold she caught last night.
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