Phrasal Verbs
to encourage someone to do something; to make someone feel they must do something
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- 1to make people feel strong emotions to stir up hatred
- 2to try to cause arguments or problems to stir up a debate Whenever he's around, he always manages to stir up trouble. We have enough problems without you trying to stir things up.
- 3to make something move around in water or air The wind stirred up a lot of dust.