stir
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)twerH-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)twr̥H-yé-ti?
Proto-Germanic *sturjaną
Proto-West Germanic *sturjan
Old English styrian
Middle English stiren
English stir
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 Proto-West Germanic *staurijan (“to destroy, disturb”). Cognate with Old Norse styrr (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), German stören (“to disturb”), Dutch storen (“to disturb”).
Inflected forms:
form: stirs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stirring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stirred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stirred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: stir
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: stir
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: stirred
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: stir
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: stirrest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: stirred
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: stirredst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: stirs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stirreth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: stirred
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: stir
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: stirred
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: stir
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: stirred
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: stir
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: stirring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stirred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To disturb the relative position of the particles (of a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She stirred the pudding with a spoon.
He stirred his coffee so the sugar wouldn't stay at the bottom.
My minde is troubled, like a Fountaine stir'd, / And I my selfe see not the bottome of it.
gloss: To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Would you please stir this pot so that the chocolate doesn't burn?
gloss: To emotionally affect; to touch, to move.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And what delights can equal those
⁠That stir the spirit’s inner deeps,
⁠When one that loves but knows not, reaps
A truth from one that loves and knows?
gloss: To incite to action.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: An Ate, stirring him to bloud and strife […]
The Soldiers love her Brother’s Memory; / And for her sake some Mutiny will stir.
gloss: To bring into debate; to agitate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Preserue the rights of thy place, but stirre not questions of Iurisdiction : and rather assume thy right in silence, and de facto, then voice it with claimes, and challenges.
gloss: To disturb, to disrupt.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: They ſay he is the King of Perſea.
But if he dare attempt to ſtir your ſiege,
Twere requiſite he ſhould be ten times more,
For all fleſh quakes at your magnificence.
gloss: To change the place of in any manner; to move.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: […] notwithstanding the swelling of my Foot, so that I had never yet in five days been able to stir it, but as it was lifted.
'But the bolts can't be stirred, dear,' protested Myra. 'I've tried myself until my poor thumbs are nearly dislocated. […]'
gloss: To begin to move, especially gently, from a still or unmoving position.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And especially if they happen to have any superior character or possessions in this world, they fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears[…]
I had not strength to stir or strive, / But felt that I was still alive— […]
gloss: Of a feeling or emotion: to rise, begin to be felt.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: That night he was almost too happy to sleep, and so much love stirred in his little sawdust heart that it almost burst.
Though as I said it, glibly, reassuringly, I knew that I lied, and a little snake of guilt stirred and began to uncoil slightly, guilt and its constant companion deceit.
gloss: To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: All are not fit with them to stir and toil.
Meanwhile, the friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf.
gloss: To rise from sleep or unconsciousness.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: “Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins,” remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: “Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!”
gloss: The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Can you give the soup a little stir?
gloss: agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem).
Why all these words, this clamour, and this stir?
Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.
Meantime, the train went on to Brighton without further incident. No small stir was caused by its arrival with No. 61 at its head, resplendent with "East London Line Special" head boards, which at once caught the eye of William Stroudley, who was observing the traffic working from his office window.
When the long, hot journey drew to its end and the train slowed down for the last time, there was a stir in Jessamy’s carriage. People began to shake crumbs from their laps and tidy themselves up a little.
gloss: Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.
gloss: Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: astir
bestir
overstir
restir
stand and stir
stirabout
stirrable
stirrage
stirrer
understir
unstir
unstirred
cause a stir
stirless
upstir
Translations:
lang: Bashkir
word: болғау
roman: bolğaw
lang: Bashkir
word: бутау
roman: butaw
lang: Bulgarian
word: бъ́ркам
roman: bǎ́rkam
lang: Bulgarian
word: разбъ́ркам
roman: razbǎ́rkam
lang: Bulgarian
word: ме́шам
roman: méšam
lang: Catalan
word: remoure
lang: Catalan
word: regirar
lang: Catalan
word: remenar
lang: Chechen
word: кег ян
roman: keg jan
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 摝
roman: luk
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 攪拌 /搅拌
roman: jiǎobàn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 攪 /搅
roman: jiǎo
lang: Dutch
word: roeren
lang: Finnish
word: sekoittaa
lang: Finnish
word: hämmentää
lang: French
word: remuer
lang: German
word: rühren
lang: German
word: rüere
lang: Hungarian
word: kever
lang: Hungarian
word: kavar
lang: Hungarian
word: megkever
lang: Hungarian
word: felkever
lang: Icelandic
word: hræra
lang: Irish
word: corraigh
lang: Italian
word: mescolare
lang: Japanese
word: 掻き混ぜる
roman: kakimazeru
lang: Japanese
word: 攪拌する
roman: kakuhan suru
lang: Korean
word: 휘젓다
roman: hwijeotda
lang: Latvian
word: maisīt
lang: Māori
word: tairangi
lang: Māori
word: kōrori
lang: Māori
word: kōrorirori
lang: Norman
word: rêmouer
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: røre
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: røre
lang: Occitan
word: chambotar
lang: Occitan
word: mesclar
lang: Occitan
word: remòure
lang: Old Turkic
word: 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰍𐰀
roman: b¹ul¹ǧa
lang: Polish
word: bełtać
lang: Polish
word: zbełtać
lang: Polish
word: mieszać
lang: Polish
word: wymieszać
lang: Portuguese
word: mexer
lang: Romanian
word: amesteca
lang: Russian
word: разме́шивать
roman: razméšivatʹ
lang: Russian
word: меша́ть
roman: mešátʹ
lang: Russian
word: размеша́ть
roman: razmešátʹ
lang: Spanish
word: revolver
lang: Spanish
word: bullir
lang: Spanish
word: mesclar
lang: Spanish
word: mecer
lang: Spanish
word: mejer
lang: Spanish
word: escrucar
lang: Swedish
word: röra
lang: Turkish
word: karıştırmak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بولامق
roman: bulamak
lang: Ukrainian
word: розмі́шувати
roman: rozmíšuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: міша́ти
roman: mišáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: розмішат́и
roman: rozmišat́y
lang: Vietnamese
word: quấy
lang: Vietnamese
word: khuấy
lang: Vietnamese
word: quậy