stir
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To disturb the relative position of the particles (of a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
She stirred the pudding with a spoon.
He stirred his coffee so the sugar wouldn't stay at the bottom.
Đồng nghĩa: agitate
- 2.
(transitive)To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.
Would you please stir this pot so that the chocolate doesn't burn?
- 3.
(transitive)To emotionally affect; to touch, to move.
- 4.
(transitive)To incite to action.
Đồng nghĩa: arouse, instigate, prompt, excite, abet, actuate, goose, light a fire under, send, sting, bring about, cheer, draw, drive, encourage, egg on, engender, evoke, excite, foment, goad, grill, ignite, impel, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, invoke, lash, motive, motivate, move, obligate, oblige, push, promote, prompt, provoke, rouse, set off, spark off, spur, spur on, stimulate, stir, stir up, stoke, tempt, urge, whet, whip up
- 5.
(transitive)To bring into debate; to agitate.
- 6.
(obsolete, transitive)To disturb, to disrupt.
- 7.
(dated, transitive)To change the place of in any manner; to move.
- 8.
(intransitive)To begin to move, especially gently, from a still or unmoving position.
- 9.
(intransitive)Of a feeling or emotion: to rise, begin to be felt.
- 10.
(intransitive)To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
- 11.
(intransitive)To rise from sleep or unconsciousness.
Đồng nghĩa: arise, get up, rouse, abraid, arise, arouse, awake, awaken, get up, rise, rouse, stir, wake, wake up, waken
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
Can you give the soup a little stir?
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem). Why all these words, this clamour, and this stir?
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
- 5.
(countable, slang, uncountable)Jail; prison.
He's going to be spending maybe ten years in stir.
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From Middle English stiren, sturien, steren, from Old English styrian (to be in motion, move, agitate, stir, disturb, trouble), from Proto-Germanic *sturiz (turmoil, noise, confusion), related to. Cognate with styrr, stören to disturb, storen to disturb.