transcription, транскрипция: [ stɜ:(r) ]
( stirs, stirring, stirred)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you stir a liquid or other substance, you move it around or mix it in a container using something such as a spoon.
Stir the soup for a few seconds...
There was Mrs Bellingham, stirring sugar into her tea...
You don’t add the peanut butter until after you’ve stirred in the honey.
VERB : V n , V n into n , V n with in
2.
If you stir , you move slightly, for example because you are uncomfortable or beginning to wake up. ( WRITTEN )
Eileen shook him, and he started to stir...
The two women lay on their backs, not stirring.
= move
VERB : V , V
3.
If you do not stir from a place, you do not move from it. ( WRITTEN )
She had not stirred from the house that evening...
= move
VERB : usu with brd-neg , V from n
4.
If something stirs or if the wind stirs it, it moves gently in the wind. ( WRITTEN )
Palm trees stir in the soft Pacific breeze...
Not a breath of fresh air stirred the long white curtains.
= move
VERB : V , V n
5.
If a particular memory, feeling, or mood stirs or is stirred in you, you begin to think about it or feel it. ( WRITTEN )
Then a memory stirs in you and you start feeling anxious...
Amy remembered the anger he had stirred in her...
Deep inside the awareness was stirring that something was about to happen.
VERB : V in n , V n in n , V
6.
If an event causes a stir , it causes great excitement, shock, or anger among people.
His film has caused a stir in America.
= commotion
N-SING
7.
see also stirring