stir

To disturb the relative position of the particles (of a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.

She stirred the pudding with a spoon.

He stirred his coffee so the sugar wouldn't stay at the bottom.

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?

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?

To incite to action.

An Ate, stirring him to bloud and strife […]

The Soldiers love her Brother’s Memory; / And for her sake some Mutiny will stir.

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.

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

Can you give the soup a little stir?

agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.

1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem). Why all these words, this clamour, and this stir?

Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.

Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.

Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.

Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

Jail; prison.

He's going to be spending maybe ten years in stir.

The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.