| stir up | | |
| v. (social) | 1. agitate, foment, stir up | try to stir up public opinion. |
| ~ provoke, stimulate | provide the needed stimulus for. |
| ~ rumpus | cause a disturbance. |
| v. (emotion) | 2. fire up, heat, ignite, inflame, stir up, wake | arouse or excite feelings and passions.; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred" |
| ~ arouse, elicit, evoke, provoke, enkindle, kindle, fire, raise | call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses).; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" |
| ~ ferment | work up into agitation or excitement.; "Islam is fermenting Africa" |
| v. (contact) | 3. agitate, commove, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex | change the arrangement or position of. |
| ~ scramble, beat | stir vigorously.; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" |
| ~ toss | agitate.; "toss the salad" |
| ~ rile, roil | make turbid by stirring up the sediments of. |
| ~ poke | stir by poking.; "poke the embers in the fireplace" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| v. (communication) | 4. incite, instigate, set off, stir up | provoke or stir up.; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people" |
| ~ provoke, stimulate | provide the needed stimulus for. |
| ~ raise | activate or stir up.; "raise a mutiny" |
| ~ act, move | perform an action, or work out or perform (an action).; "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel" |
| knotty | | |
| adj. | 1. baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough | making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe.; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home" |
| ~ difficult, hard | not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" |
| adj. | 2. gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotted, knotty | used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots.; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick" |
| ~ crooked | having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned.; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth" |
| adj. | 3. byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous | highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious.; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" |
| ~ complex | complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts.; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs" |
| adj. | 4. knotty, snarled, snarly | tangled in knots or snarls.; "a mass of knotted string"; "snarled thread" |
| ~ tangled | in a confused mass.; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes" |
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