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
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Stir a whisker, Lungri, and I ram the Red Flower down thy gullet!” He beat Shere Khan over the head with the branch, and the tiger whimpered and whined in an agony of fear.
“Bandar-log,” said the voice of Kaa at last, “can ye stir foot or hand without my order?
“Without thy order we cannot stir foot or hand, O Kaa!”
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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