Enkindle vs Stir_up - What's the difference?
enkindle | stir_up | Related terms |
To kindle; to arouse or evoke.
* 1603-06, William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act 1, Scene 3:
* 1809, Philip Freneau, "Occasioned By a Legislation Bill proposing a Taxation upon Newspapers":
arouse or excite passion or action.
* Episode 16
mix ingredients.
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)- That, trusted home, might yet enkindle you unto the crown, besides the Thane of Cawdor.
- "By them enkindled , every heart grew warm, / "By them excited, all were taught to arm,
stir_up
English
Verb
- 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 -
- 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,...