stir up

English

Verb

stir up (third-person singular simple present stirs up, present participle stirring up, simple past and past participle stirred up)

1. (transitive) To arouse or excite (passion or action, etc.).

   Synonyms: instigate, provoke; see also Thesaurus:incite

   • 1900 June 1, Wilbur Wright, Letter to Octave Chanute:

     What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he can stir up ten others to take up the task he has accomplished much.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
     Episode 16:

     All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag […]

2. (transitive) To mix (ingredients) by stirring.

   Synonyms: stir, swizzle

3. (transitive) To move or disturb slightly; to make turbid.

   Synonyms: agitate, muddle, roil, trouble

Translations

arouse or excite passion or action

• Catalan: estimular (ca), excitar (ca), incitar (ca)
• Esperanto: inciti (eo), bloveksciti
• French: stimuler (fr), inciter (fr)
• Galician: ambrar, enfoutar, encirrar (gl), apurrar (gl), motexar, estrizar, isar, enguizar, embuxar, bezar
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ὀτρύνω (otrúnō)

  Ancient: ὄρνυμι (órnumi)

• Italian: stimolare (it), appassionare (it), convincere (it)
• Latin: percieō, suscitō
• Ottoman Turkish: دورتمك (dürtmek), كوروكلمك (körüklemek)
• Portuguese: incitar (pt)
• Spanish: levantar pasiones, soliviantar (es), concitar (es)

to cause (trouble etc)

• Czech: vyvolat (cs)
• Danish: piske op
• Dutch: opstoken (nl)
• Estonian: õhutama
• Finnish: lietsoa (fi)
• French: faire de l’agitation
• German: entfachen (de)
• Hungarian: felkavar (hu)
• Icelandic: koma af stað, stofna til
• Italian: fomentare (it), sobillare (it), incitare (it)
• Latin: suscitō, turbō (la)
• Latvian: izraisit; sacelt
• Lithuanian: sukelti, sukurstyti
• Norwegian: hisse opp, egge til opprør
• Polish: wywoływać (pl), wzniecać (pl)
• Portuguese: fazer agitação (Brazil); provocar (pt) (Portugal)
• Romanian: a da nastere la
• Slovak: vyvolat
• Slovene: izzvati
• Spanish: despertar (es), provocar (es), excitar (es), fomentar (es)
• Swahili: chochea (sw)
• Swedish: ställa till, sätta i gång
• Turkish: neden olmak (tr)
• Zazaki: poxta

to mix ingredients

• Bashkir: ҡушып болғау (quşıp bolğaw), ҡушып бутау (quşıp butaw)
• French: mélanger (fr)
• Maori: whakaranu
• Portuguese: misturar (pt)
• Russian: разме́шивать (ru) impf (razméšivatʹ), размеша́ть (ru) pf (razmešátʹ)

to make turbid

• Maori: tiehu

References

• “stir up”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• "stir up" in the Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), K Dictionaries limited, 2000-2006.
• "stir up" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• purist, spruit, tripus, uprist, upstir