stirverb
uk/stɜːr/us/stɝː/-rr-stir verb (MIX)
B1 [ I or T ] to mix a liquid or other substance by moving an object such as a spoon in a circular pattern:
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- Add two teaspoons of vanilla and stir.
- Drain the rice, stir in the salmon and season to taste .
- Add a scant half litre of milk to the mixture and stir well.
- Stir the mixture continuously to prevent lumps from forming.
- Take off the heat and stir.
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Preparing food
- butter
- can't boil an egg idiom
- caramelize
- carve
- clarified
- cube
- dice
- fold
- knead
- leaven
- liquidize
- malt
- marinade
- salt
- slow food
- spice
- stuffed
- sweeten
- thicken
- thin
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stir verb (MOVE)
C2 [ I or T ] to move or to cause something to move slightly:
[ I ] UK also stir yourself to wake up or begin to move or take action:
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General words for movement
- betake
- budge
- budge up
- circulate
- come
- gangway!
- go around
- head
- locomotion
- manoeuvre
- mill around
- mobility
- mope
- mope around (somewhere)
- move
- round
- slip
- steer
- sway
- travel
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stir verb (CAUSE EMOTION)
C2 [ T ] If something stirs you, it makes you feel a strong emotion:
[ I ] literary If an emotion stirs within you, you begin to feel it:
[ I ] UK informal disapproving to cause trouble intentionally between other people, especially by telling false or secret information:
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Causing things to happen
- -ization
- -ize
- actuation
- agent
- awaken (sth) in sb
- be associated with sth
- beget
- draw
- fuel
- instigate
- instigator
- introduce
- lie
- plant
- produce
- rise
- usher
- usher sth in
- wreak
- wrought
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stirnoun
uk/stɜːr/us/stɝː/stir noun (MIX)
[ C usually singular ] the act of stirring a liquid or other substance in order to mix it:
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Preparing food
- butter
- can't boil an egg idiom
- caramelize
- carve
- clarified
- cube
- dice
- fold
- knead
- leaven
- liquidize
- malt
- marinade
- salt
- slow food
- spice
- stuffed
- sweeten
- thicken
- thin
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stir noun (EXCITEMENT)
[ U ] informal a lot of interest or excitement:
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Excitement, interest, energy and enthusiasm
- a new lease of life idiom
- alacrity
- animation
- ardour
- avid
- flap
- frisky
- frisson
- get-up-and-go
- glamour
- gusto
- meaty
- shiver (up and) down your spine idiom
- sparkle
- spice
- spirit
- sprightly
- stimulation
- zap
- zest
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stir noun (MARCH)
[ C usually singular ] Indian English an occasion when a group of people march or stand together to show that they disagree with or support something or someone; a demonstration
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Activism & pressure groups
- activism
- activist
- agitation
- agitator
- agitprop
- CND
- gay activist
- gherao
- groundswell
- guerrilla
- hunger strike
- lobby
- petitioner
- protest
- protester
- radical
- rasta roko
- rebel
- rebellion
- reformer
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