单词 | stir up |
释义 | stir up 1. phrasal verb If something stirs up dust or stirs up mud in water, it causes it to rise up and move around. They saw first a cloud of dust and then the car that was stirring it up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb See full dictionary entry for stir If you stir up a particular mood or situation, usually a bad one, you cause it. [disapproval] As usual, Harriet is trying to stir up trouble. [VERB PARTICLE noun] He said senior government officials were trying to stir up ethnic tension. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] I thought at first that Jay had been stirring things up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] |
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