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stir up

verb

Definitions

  1. To arouse or excite (passion or action, etc.).

    • What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he can stir up ten others to take up the task he has accomplished much.
    • All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag […]
    • These women are experts at flattery, cajolery and sexual excitation, and also possess unusual talents for stirring up quarrels, stimulating jealousies and spreading slander and malicious rumors.

  2. To mix (ingredients) by stirring.

  3. To move or disturb slightly

    To move or disturb slightly; to make turbid.

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Derived

stir up a hornets' nest

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA