[syn: stimulated, stirred, stirred up, aroused]
3. set into a usually circular motion in order to mix or blend;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
agitated \agitated\ adj.
1. troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of
unagitated. agitated parents
Note: Narrower terms are: demoniac, demoniacal ; distraught,
overwrought; {disturbed, jolted, shaken; feverish,
hectic; frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied;
psychedelic ; {rampageous, raging, frenzied ;
{wild-eyed . Also See: discomposed, excited, impatient,
tense, unquiet, unsteady.
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2. 1 throwing oneself from side to side.
Syn: tossing
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3. physically disturbed or set in motion; as, the agitated
mixture foamed and bubbled. Opposite of {unagitated and
left alone, allowed to stand.
Note: [Narrower terms are: churning, churned-up, roiling,
roiled, roily, turbulent ; {stirred.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stir \Stir\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stirred; p. pr. & vb. n.
Stirring.] [OE. stiren, steren, sturen, AS. styrian;
probably akin to D. storen to disturb, G. st["o]ren, OHG.
st[=o]ren to scatter, destroy. [root]166.]
1. To change the place of in any manner; to move.
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My foot I had never yet in five days been able to
stir. --Sir W.
Temple.
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2. To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as
of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate;
as, to stir a pudding with a spoon.
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My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred.
--Shak.
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3. To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
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Stir not questions of jurisdiction. --Bacon.
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4. To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt;
to excite. "To stir men to devotion." --Chaucer.
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An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife. --Shak.
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And for her sake some mutiny will stir. --Dryden.
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Note: In all senses except the first, stir is often followed
by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to
stir up sedition.
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Syn: To move; incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate;
excite; provoke.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
stirred
adj 1: being excited or provoked to the expression of an
emotion; "too moved to speak"; "very touched by the
stranger's kindness" [syn: moved(p), affected,
stirred, touched] [ant: unaffected, unmoved(p),
untouched]
2: emotionally aroused [syn: stimulated, stirred, stirred
up, aroused]
3: set into a usually circular motion in order to mix or blend