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stirring (up)verbpresent participle of stir (up) to bring something (volatile or intense) into beingcouldn't stir up any interest in a Saturday morning outing to the art museum abetting, brewing, fermenting, fomenting, inciting, instigating, picking, provoking, raising, whipping (up) advancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nourishing, nurturing, promoting, sowing, stimulatingdetonating, setting, setting off, triggeringexciting, galvanizing, inflaming(also enflaming), inspiring, motivating, rousingactivating, energizing, enlivening, firing, invigorating, jazzing (up), livening (up), pepping (up), quickening, stimulating, vitalizing setting in motion bridling, checking, constraining, curbing, discouraging, holding, inhibiting, regulating, reining (in), restraining, tamingallaying, calming, quieting, settling, soothing, stilling, subduing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) |