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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: try to stir up public opinion [syn: agitate, foment, stir up]
2: arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred" [syn: inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat, fire up]
3: change the arrangement or position of [syn: agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up]
4: provoke or stir up; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people" [syn: incite, instigate, set off, stir up]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If something stirs up dust or stirs up mud in water, it causes it to rise up and move around. They saw first a cloud of dust and then the car that was stirring it up. PHRASAL VERB: V n P 2. If you stir up a particular mood or situation, usually a bad one, you cause it. As usual, Harriet is trying to stir up trouble... I thought at first that Jay had been stirring things up. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

1. Incite, instigate, animate, put in action, excite, quicken, awaken, move, rouse, provoke, stimulate. 2. Disturb. 3. Begin, put into action. 4. Quicken, enliven.

Moby Thesaurus

abet, admix, aggravate, agitate, alloy, amalgamate, annoy, arouse, awake, awaken, beat, beat up, bemingle, blend, blow the coals, blow up, bristle, call forth, call up, chafe, churn, churn up, coalesce, combine, commingle, commix, compose, compound, concoct, conglomerate, convulse, disarrange, discompose, disquiet, disturb, embitter, emulsify, enkindle, enrage, exasperate, excite, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, ferment, fire, flame, flurry, foment, frenzy, fret, fuse, hash, heat, heat up, homogenize, huff, immingle, immix, impassion, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, instigate, integrate, interblend, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intertwine, interweave, irritate, jumble, key up, kindle, knead, lather up, light the fuse, light up, madden, merge, miff, mingle, mingle-mangle, mix, mix up, move, nettle, overexcite, paddle, peeve, perturb, perturbate, pique, provoke, put up to, raise, raise up, rally, rankle, rile, ripple, roil, roughen, rouse, ruffle, rumple, scramble, set, set astir, set fire to, set on, set on fire, set up, shake, shake up, shuffle, sic on, steam up, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, summon up, swirl, syncretize, throw together, tickle, toss together, trouble, turn on, upset, vex, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm the blood, whet, whip, whip up, whisk, work, work into, work up