stir

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But, after this stir is all over, I know it will trouble me, make me sorry because I am not sorry now.

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  1. transitive verb To pass an implement through (a liquid, for example) in circular motions so as to mix or cool the contents: stirred the soup before tasting it.
  2. transitive verb To introduce (an ingredient, for example) into a liquid or mixture: stirred a cup of sugar into the cake batter.
  3. transitive verb To mix together the ingredients of before cooking or use: stirred up some popover batter; stirred the paint.
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murmur ·  commotion ·  flutter ·  tumult ·  tremor ·  rustle ·  flicker ·  rush ·  bustle ·  hum ·  thrill ·  clatter

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stir:   Stir ·  stirring ·  stirred ·  stirs
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  1. Middle English stiren, from Old English styrian, to excite, agitate.
  2. Origin unknown.

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  1. Also dial, steer (and stoor); early modern English also stirr, stirre, stire, stere; from Middle English stiren, steren, sturen, styren, from Anglo-Saxon styrian, move, stir, = North Fries, stiaren = Middle Dutch stooren, Dutch storen, disturb, vex, = Middle Low German stōren, disturb, hinder, = Old High German stōren, stōrren, scatter, destroy, disturb, Middle High German stœren, German stören, disturb, interrupt, hinder, = Swedish störa, disturb; cf. Icelandic styrr, a stir, Danish for-styrre, disturb; not connected with L. sternere, scatter, or English strew: see strew. Cf. stoor. Hence ult. storm and sturgeon. The Middle English forms are in some uses confused with similar forms of steer, ‘direct,’ ‘guide.’
  2. Early modern English also stirre; from stir, v.
  3. A corruption of sir.
 

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