Stir up meaning
Stir up is a phrasal verb with 2 meanings. One of them is to cause an unpleasant feeling or problem to start or intensify.
- Past simple
- stirred up
- Past participle
- stirred up
- -ing form
- stirring up
What stir up means
provoke emotion or problemC2
To cause an unpleasant feeling or problem to start or intensify
The speech stirred up resentment among local residents.
1 more meaning of stir up is in the Retite app, with an example and a translation into your language.
More meanings in the appSimilar phrasal verbs
With up: wake up, pick up, grow up, line up, make up, set up, put up, go up, bring up, mess up.
Common questions
What does stir up mean?
It has 2 meanings. One of them is to cause an unpleasant feeling or problem to start or intensify. The other one, with an example and a translation into your language, is in the Retite app.
What is the past tense of stir up?
Stirred up, which is also its past participle.
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