stir up

stir up (third-person singular simple present stirs up, present participle stirring up, simple past and past participle stirred up)

1. (transitive) To arouse or excite (passion or action).
   • 1900 June 1, Wilbur Wright, Letter to Octave Chanute:

     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.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483:

     Episode 16:

     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 […]

2. (transitive) To mix (ingredients) by stirring.
3. (transitive) To move or disturb slightly; to make turbid.

• “stir up” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• "stir up" in the Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), K Dictionaries limited, 2000-2006.
• "stir up" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

• purist, spruit, tripus, uprist, upstir