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1. WordNet® 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

2. 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.
         [WordNet 1.5]

   2. 1 throwing oneself from side to side.

   Syn: tossing
        [WordNet 1.5]

   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.]
         [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

3. 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.
        [1913 Webster]

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