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- change the arrangement or position of
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arouse or excite feelings and passions
Wake old feelings of hatred
The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world
The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor - try to stir up public opinion
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provoke or stir up
incite a riot
set off great unrest among the people
How To Use stir up In A Sentence
- It can stir up strong emotions from the first notes heard, driving even the coldest of people to warm their hearts.
- Maybe it is time that Taiwan's intellectuals step forward and launch another newspaper boycott - as was the case 10 years ago when the United Daily News injudiciously printed stories that appeared to be designed to stir up fear in Taiwan.
- But the enemy of concord and the adversary of peace finding his projects to be thus illuded and condemned, and seeing the little fruit he had gotten by setting them all by the ears, resolved once again to try his wits, and stir up new discords and troubles, which befel in this manner. The Fourth Book. XVIII. Wherein Are Decided the Controversies of the Helmet of Mambrino and of the Pannel, with Other Strange and Most True Adventures
- I am a from another party blogging to make you think I am a "Labourite", so I can stir up trouble between you and your coalition partners :- Clever isn't it? What no Wales?
- The fact that Lainey and Madison seemed determined to stir up dram is annoying! Twilight Lexicon » David Slade Addresses Online Rumors
- So stir up some happy family times with this central heating for the soul. The Sun
- Wherefore -- Greek, "For which cause," namely, because thou hast inherited, didst once possess, and I trust ( "am persuaded") still dost possess, such unfeigned faith [Alford]. stir up -- literally, "rekindle," "revive the spark of"; the opposite of Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- I mean isn't that exactly what the print media and the media more generally should be doing in order to stir up the imagination and to provoke debate within the community?
- Blair is a thoroughgoing scoundrel, who has been prepared to stir up the hornets 'nest of the Middle East (at the cost of enormous loss of life) for personal aggrandisement and financial gain. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
- The Republicans understand that a partial repeal is less likely to stir up voters. Think Progress » Rep. Steve King frustrated that GOP leadership is not fully embracing ObamaCare repeal.