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Stirring   /stˈərɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Stir  v. t.  (past & past part. stirred; pres. part. stirring)  
1.
To change the place of in any manner; to move. "My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir."
2.
To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate; as, to stir a pudding with a spoon. "My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred."
3.
To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot. "Stir not questions of jurisdiction."
4.
To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite. "To stir men to devotion." "An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife." "And for her sake some mutiny will stir." Note: In all senses except the first, stir is often followed by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to stir up sedition.
Synonyms: To move; incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate; excite; provoke.


Stir  v. i.  
1.
To move; to change one's position. "I had not power to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive."
2.
To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self. "All are not fit with them to stir and toil." "The friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf."
3.
To become the object of notice; to be on foot. "They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears."
4.
To rise, or be up, in the morning. (Colloq.)


adjective
Stirring  adj.  Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life. "A more stirring and intellectual age than any which had gone before it."
Synonyms: Animating; arousing; awakening; stimulating; quickening; exciting.





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"Stirring" Quotes from Famous Books



... stalks, and left each adorned throughout its length with a neat series of symmetrical bows, she felt that her task was done and that she was at liberty to accompany him. Together they learnt the brook from end to end. Sometimes they walked along the bottom, stirring to right and left of them a host of low-class life, slimy leeches, dingy crustaceans of every imaginable kind. Sometimes they traversed the middle deeps, brushing against the beetles and the boatmen and the water-snails. Sometimes they sunned themselves on the surface, ...
— "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" - Studies of Animal life and Character • Douglas English
... calmed him down and explained that tackling was quite within the law, and that he only sat on him to prevent him from going on again; for Blair had cut short Joel's triumph fifteen yards from the goal line, and the spectators of the soul-stirring dash down the field were slowly settling again in their seats. Mr. March was presently relieved to see Joel arise, shake himself like a dog coming out of water, and ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour
... sun may glow, Nor summer flower for thee may bloom; Though winter turn in sudden gloom, And drowse the stirring ...
— Poems • William D. Howells
... on the old Bible and chance pickings. The stirring and bloodcurdling stories in the Books of the Maccabees were his favourites. He read them over and over, and he tried to dramatize that unbroken record of battles with the help of his tin soldiers. But the reason he could return to those stories so often was that he began studying them ...
— The Soul of a Child • Edwin Bjorkman
... divided into three parts, each ruled by one of the three rivals. The period is known in history as that of the Three Kingdoms, and lasted from A.D. 220 to A.D. 265. This short space of time was filled, especially the early years, with stirring deeds of heroism and marvellous strategical operations, fortune favouring first one of the three commanders and then another. The whole story of these civil wars is most graphically told in a famous historical romance composed about a thousand years afterwards. ...
— The Civilization Of China • Herbert A. Giles


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