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Enkindle vs Stir_up - What's the difference?

enkindle | stir_up | Related terms |

Enkindle is a related term of stir_up.


As verbs the difference between enkindle and stir_up

is that enkindle is to kindle; to arouse or evoke while stir_up is arouse or excite passion or action.

enkindle

English

Verb

(enkindl)
  • To kindle; to arouse or evoke.
  • * 1603-06, William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act 1, Scene 3:
  • That, trusted home, might yet enkindle you unto the crown, besides the Thane of Cawdor.
  • * 1809, Philip Freneau, "Occasioned By a Legislation Bill proposing a Taxation upon Newspapers":
  • "By them enkindled , every heart grew warm, / "By them excited, all were taught to arm,

    stir_up

    English

    Verb

  • arouse or excite passion or action.
  • What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he can stir up ten others to take up the task he has accomplished much -
  • * Episode 16
  • All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag,...
  • mix ingredients.
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