1. Set into a usually circular motion in order to mix or blend
   "The stirred coffee released a rich aroma"
    
2. Emotionally affected or aroused, especially to sympathy, gratitude, or tenderness
   "too stirred to speak";
   - moved, affected, touched

1. Move an implement through in order to mix
   "stir the soil"; "stir the soup"; "stir my drink"
    
2. Mix or add by stirring
   "Stir nuts into the dough"
    
3. Move or shift slightly from a position
   "He stirred in his seat";
   - shift, budge, scooch [informal]
    
4. Arouse feelings in
   "stir emotions";
   - stimulate, excite
    
5. Excite the feelings or emotions of; disturb the peace of
   "These stories stirred the community";
   - shake, shake up, excite
    
6. Affect emotionally
   "A stirring movie";
   - touch
    
7. Cause to be alert and energetic
   "The speech stirred the crowd to action";
   - stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise [Brit], perk up

See also: affected, agitated, emotional, sick, stir up

Type of: affect, arouse, displace, elicit, enkindle [literary], evoke, impress, kindle, move, provoke, raise, sensitise [Brit], sensitize, strike, work

Encyclopedia: Stirred