| 单词 | stir up |
| 释义 | stir up (once / 823 pages) v WORD FAMILY stir up: stirred up, stirring up, stirs up USAGE EXAMPLESAmbrose accuses President Obama of breaking “records in polarizing the country” by stirring up class antagonisms, heightening racial tensions and helping instigate political stalemate. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) “But I saw that script and said, ‘This guy’s gonna stir up some ...!’ Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) The goal is to create extravagance and exclusivity for the select few, even if it stirs up resentment elsewhere. New York Times(Apr 23, 2016) 1v provoke or stir up Syn|Hypo|Hyper incite, instigate, set off raise activate or stir up provoke, stimulate provide the needed stimulus for 2v arouse or excite feelings and passions The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world Syn|Hypo|Hyper fire up, heat, ignite, inflame, wake ferment work up into agitation or excitement arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) 3v try to stir up public opinion Syn|Hypo|Hyper agitate, foment rumpus cause a disturbance provoke, stimulate provide the needed stimulus for 4v change the arrangement or position of Syn|Hypo|Hyper agitate, commove, disturb, raise up, shake up, vex beat, scramble stir vigorously tossagitate rile, roilmake turbid by stirring up the sediments of pokestir by poking tumbleput clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying whip, whiskwhip with or as if with a wire whisk creammake creamy by beating muddle, puddlemake into a puddle displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense |
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