Stirrer

Definition

stir /stɜ:(r)/ v ( -rr- ) ၁။ (က) ~ sth (with sth) ေမႊသည္။ I've put sugar in your tea but I haven't stirred it. ❍ Stir continuously until the mixture thickens. (ခ) ~ sth into sth ; ~ sth in ေမႊသည္။ ေခါက္သည္။ Stir the dried fruit into the flour mixture. ❍ Stir in enough milk to form a soft dough. ၂။ ေမႊသည္။ ေမႊ႕သည္။ ထသည္။ ။ A gentle breeze stirred the leaves. ❍ Not a leaf was stirring (ie There was no wind to move the leaves). ❍ No one stirs in this house before eight o'clock. ❍ It's time to stir yourself and get to work. ၃။ ~ sb (to sth) လံႈ႕ေဆာ္သည္။ a story that stirs the imagination ❍ She was stirred to anger by the injustice of it all. ၄။ ႏိုးႂကြလာသည္။ ႏိုးၾကားသည္။ A sense of longing began to stir in him. ❍ There is a new optimism in the country—things are stirring. n ၁။ [C] ေမႊျခင္း။ Give the rice a stir. ၂။ [sing] ဂယက္ ႐ိုက္ျခင္း။ အုတ္ေအာ္ေသာင္းတင္း။ ဥေကၠာေဋယ်။ Her resignation caused quite a stir. ❏ stir the blood [ IDM ] စိတ္လႈပ္ရွားေစသည္။ music that really stirs the blood. ❏ stir-fry v ( pt, pp -fried ) ဆီပူထိုးသည္။ ေၾကာ္သည္။ n ဆီပူထိုး။ …ေၾကာ္။ ❏ stirrer /'stɜ:rǝ(r)/ n ( infml derog ) ခေလာက္ဆန္သူ။ ❏ stirring / 'stɜ:rÇŋ / adj လြန္စြာစိတ္လႈပ္ရွား ထိခိုက္ေစေသာ။ a stirring TV drama. n ~ (of sth) နိဒါန္းပ်ဳိးျခင္း။ အစပ်ဳိးျခင္း။ the first faint stirrings of revolution. ❏ stir one's stumps [ IDM ] ( dated Brit infml ) ပိုမို ေျခ သြက္လာသည္။ ❏ stir sb up [ PHRV ] လံႈ႕ေဆာ္သည္။ ေသြးထိုးသည္။ stir up peasants to revolt. ❏ stir sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ လံႈ႕ေဆာ္သည္။ ေျမႇာက္ေပးသည္။ ၿဂိဳဟ္ေမႊသည္။ stir up trouble/ unrest/ discontent. ၂။ ေမႊေႏွာက္သည္။ stir up the mud at the bottom of the pond.

Examples

1. Stir the sauce gently over a low heat.
2. [stir well/thoroughly] : Add the cream and stir thoroughly.
3. [stir anger/hatred/fears] : This murder has stirred a lot of ill feeling in the community.
4. The latest economic figures have stirred fears of growing inflation.
5. [stir hopes/excitement/interest] : Approaching elections have stirred hopes of reform.
6. Seeing George again stirred old memories in me.
7. A faint memory stirred in my mind.
8. A feeling of excitement stirred in her.
9. The white curtains stirred gently in the summer breeze.
10. Around 7.30 am
11. the children begin stirring sleepily.
12. She didn’t stir from her house for three days.
13. Stop stirring!