stir

verb11

1. •
   to move a drink or a soft food round and round so that its parts mix

   • She stirred the pudding with a spoon.
   • He stirred his coffee so the sugar wouldn't stay at the bottom.
2. •
   To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.

   • Would you please stir this pot so that the chocolate doesn't burn?
3. •
   To begin to move, especially gently, from a still or unmoving position.

   • And especially if they happen to have any superior character or possessions in this world, they fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears[…] — 1741
4. •
   To rise from sleep or unconsciousness.
5. •
   (old-fashioned) To change the place of in any manner; to move.

   • […] notwithstanding the swelling of my Foot, so that I had never yet in five days been able to stir it, but as it was lifted. — 1677
6. •
   To emotionally affect; to touch, to move.

   • And what delights can equal those ⁠That stir the spirit’s inner deeps, ⁠When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows? — 1850
7. •
   Of a feeling or emotion: to rise, begin to be felt.

   • That night he was almost too happy to sleep, and so much love stirred in his little sawdust heart that it almost burst. — 1922
8. •
   To incite to action.

   • An Ate, stirring him to bloud and strife […] — 1595
9. •
   To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.

   • All are not fit with them to stir and toil. — 1818
10. •
    To bring into debate; to agitate.

    • Preserue the rights of thy place, but stirre not questions of Iurisdiction : and rather assume thy right in silence, and de facto, then voice it with claimes, and challenges. — 1613
11. •
    (no longer used) To disturb, to disrupt.

    • They say he is the King of Persea. But if he dare attempt to stir your siege, Twere requisite he should be ten times more, For all flesh quakes at your magnificence. — 1587

noun5

1. •
   The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)

   • Can you give the soup a little stir?
2. •
   agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.

   • Why all these words, this clamour, and this stir? — 1668
3. •
   Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.

   • Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England. — 1612
4. •
   (slang) Jail; prison.

   • He's going to be spending maybe ten years in stir.
5. •
   Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

noun1

1. •
   Acronym of short-term interest rate, often referring to a short-term interest rate future or option.