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say it: stur
stir is a verb and noun meaning "move an implement through". It is pronounced /ˈstɝ/ — stur. It carries 11 recorded senses.
stir feelings in
“stimulate my appetite”
“excite the audience”
“stir emotions”
summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
“raise the specter of unemployment”
“he conjured wild birds in the air”
“call down the spirits from the mountain”
a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event
“he made a great splash and then disappeared”
emotional agitation and excitement
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stir come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.