Word Finder - stirred

definition

To incite to action

synonyms

• arouse
• excite
• instigate
• prompt

definition

To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate.

example

She stirred the pudding with a spoon.

definition

To agitate the content of (a container), by passing something through it.

example

Would you please stand here and stir this pot so that the chocolate doesn't burn?

definition

To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.

definition

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

definition

To move; to change one’s position.

definition

To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.

definition

To become the object of notice; to be on foot.

definition

To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.

synonyms

• arise
• get up
• rouse

She stirred the ice cream until it was soft.

She stirred and cuddled into him.

After a while, she stirred and finally opened her eyes.

The whole country was stirred up.

I don't know what it is, but it stirred up the soup.

It stirred his blood.

Her demon stirred in lazy agitation, as if still under the spell of Jame.

Panic stirred at the idea of Gabriel dragging her to some freakish underworld.

Fury stirred at the thought of Jessi taking it to them.

Their turf wars and battle against the Dark One --and now Sasha --had stirred up some of the bloodiest wars in mankind's history.

She stirred his intense curiosity, like only the unknown could.

She stirred from her trance at the voice, mind replaying scenes of Darian's death.

She was gorgeous in the moonlight, and desire stirred his blood.

Something about her stirred his insides in a way that he thought might never happen again.

Deidre stirred from behind him.

Not even a slight breeze stirred the hot air, but the trees seemed to be swaying.

Protective anger stirred at his dismissive tone.

Katie had no idea what she had stirred up.

She stirred, cuddling his hand and breathing a sigh of contentment.

Zach stirred and yawned, the tiny hands opening in a stretch.

Her hope had been crushed in every other way – except that it stirred once more at the idea there was more to him than she knew.

Something stirred deep inside, increasing her pulse.

Anger stirred within her at the satisfaction on his face.

His scent stirred her blood.

More anger stirred as Jade bit his lip to keep from defending Kris.

In spite of her strict moral standards on premarital relationships, Carmen was obviously stirred deeply by desire.

Brady stirred across the room.

Confusion and anger stirred again.

Kris's memories stirred stronger than he liked. He remembered Lilith, a beautiful Immortal whose laugh had filled him with happiness. Their love had been intense and brief, lasting less than a human year in total. One day, she was just … gone.

The playful challenge in her gaze stirred his competitive edge, the one that didn't lose and hated being out of control.

While many didn't care for the Army dress green uniform, when talk of eliminating it hit the army population, it stirred quite a lively debate.

It was characteristic of his nature that he should be stirred to such delight by the Revolution in France, and should labour so earnestly to make his countrymen understand with what gravity and sobriety it had been effected..

It is here stirred till it becomes ropy, and the perfume, colour or any other substance desired in the soap is added.

The silicate in the form of a concentrated solution is crutched or stirred into the soap in a mechanical mixing machine after the completion of the saponification, and it appears to enter into a distinct chemical combination with the soap. While silicate soaps bear heavy watering, the soluble silicate itself is a powerful detergent, and it possesses certain advantages when used with hard waters.

The soap is melted by heat, the glycerin is stirred in, and the mixture strained and poured into forms, in which it hardens but slowly into a transparent mass.

First, the emperor's wrath was stirred by the influence of France in the counsels of the republic; then Cosimo, who was no less jealous of the French, conceived the design of annexing Siena to his own dominions.

The loss of Ptolemais in 1291 stirred the pope to renewed enthusiasm for a crusade.

He held a prominent place in the New School branch of the Presbyterians, to which he adhered on the division of the denomination in 1837; he had been tried (but not convicted) for heresy in 1836, the charge being particularly against the views expressed by him in Notes on Romans (1835) of the imputation of the sin of Adam, original sin and the atonement; the bitterness stirred up by this trial contributed towards widening the breach between the conservative and the progressive elements in the church.

Her great deliverance and victory naturally stirred up the energies of Syracuse at home and abroad.

Paris was the stronghold of conservatism, and Germany was stirred by the teachings of one who must be considered apart from all schools - Paracelsus.

The English school of medicine was also profoundly stirred by the teachings of the two brothers William and John Hunter, especially the latter - who must therefore be briefly mentioned, though their own researches were chiefly concerned with subjects lying a little outside the limits of this sketch.

An Indian sweetmeat is stirred up in water with a two-edged sword and the novice repeats after the officiant the articles of his faith.

In the same year he edited Aids to Faith, a volume written in opposition to Essays and Reviews, the progressive sentiments of which had stirred up a great storm in the Church of England.

If the liquid is stirred up by the rotation R of a cylindrical body, d4lds = normal velocity reversed dy = - Rx- Ry ds (5) ds 4' + 2 R (x2 + y2) = Y, (6) a constant over the boundary; and 4,' is the current-function of the relative motion past the cylinder, but now V 2 4,'+2R =o, (7) throughout the liquid.

These pans are sometimes heated by boiling oil, with the idea that under such conditions the sugar which is kept stirred all the time as it thickens cannot be burnt or caramelized; but the same object can be attained more economically with steam of a given pressure by utilizing its latent heat.

To prevent this various implements, such as disk harrows and specially constructed rollers, may be used to consolidate the upper stirred portion of the soil and place it in close capillary relationship with the lower unmoved layer.

In 1864 the discovery of the six letters stirred up William Lee to a new investigation, and the results of this were published (London, 1869) in three large volumes.

The discovery that the poet had printed secretly 1500 copies of The Patriot King caused him to publish a correct version in 1749, and stirred up a further altercation with Warburton, who defended his friend against Bolingbroke's bitter aspersions, the latter, whose conduct was generally reprehended, publishing a Familiar Epistle to the most Impudent Man Living.

The method of using these liquids is in all cases the same; a particle is dropped in; if it floats a diluent is added and the mixture well stirred.

For Waldo had a translation of the New Testament made into Provençal, and his preachers not only stirred up men to more holy lives but explained the Scriptures at their will.