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单词 stir up
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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]
[Also VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)]
2. phrasal verb
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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stir up in British English

verb
(tr, adverb)
to set in motion; instigate
he stirred up trouble

Examples of 'stir up' in a sentence
stir up

And one of them seems to believe I'm a bigamist and has gone to the trouble to try to stir up trouble for me.
Ferrars, Elizabeth THY BROTHER DEATH
He'd say nothing to stir up his mother, nothing to remind her of how death had followed them.
Clive Barker SACRAMENT (2001)
So there was Felicity to stir up my apprehension; and of course, Milton Hemming.
Holt, Victoria THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND

Chinese translation of 'stir up'

stir up

vt

  1. [trouble] 挑起 (tiǎoqǐ)
  2. [dust, mud] 扬(揚)起 (yángqǐ)
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Nearby words of
stir up

  • stink
  • stint
  • stir
  • stir up
  • stir-fry
  • stitch
  • stitch up
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