stirring

[stur-ing]

adjective

1. rousing, exciting, or thrilling.

   a stirring speech.

2. moving, active, bustling, or lively.

   a stirring business.

noun

1. a mental impulse, sensation, or feeling.

   stirrings of hope.

2. a small movement.

   the best thing she could do was to pretend that her husband's nocturnal stirrings didn't wake her

stirring

/ ˈstɜːrɪŋ /

adjective

1. exciting the emotions; stimulating

2. active, lively, or busy

Other Word Forms

• stirringly adverb
• unstirring adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of stirring¹

before 900; Middle English stiringe, Old English styriende. See stir ¹, -ing ²

Example Sentences

Cooks add canned tomatoes and peppers with handfuls of spices, stirring the sauce with giant spoons.

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To visualize shear, imagine stirring a thick jar of honey.

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She said: "When the winds shifted north 15,000 years ago, they changed the stirring action in the Southern Ocean which acts as the largest natural carbon sink on Earth."

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But when I see Ama stirring on the ground from the attack, my heart turns frigid.

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Soon she was so lost in her task that she did not even notice the children stirring.

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