1. Arouse or excite feelings and passions
   "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world";
   - inflame, wake, ignite, heat, fire up
    
2. Provoke or stir up
   "stir up a riot";
   - incite, instigate, set off
    
3. Try to stir up public opinion
   "The speech stirred up anti-government sentiment";
   - agitate, foment
    
4. Change the arrangement or position of
   "The earthquake stirred up the careful arrangement of items";
   - agitate, disturb, shake up, raise up

Derived forms: stirring up, stirred up, stirs up

Type of: arouse, displace, elicit, enkindle [literary], evoke, kindle, move, provoke, raise, stimulate