Stir_up vs Irritate - What's the difference?
stir_up | irritate | Related terms |
arouse or excite passion or action.
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(lb) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
(lb) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
(lb) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
(lb) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
(lb) To render null and void.
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Stir_up is a related term of irritate.
As verbs the difference between stir_up and irritate
is that stir_up is arouse or excite passion or action while irritate is (lb) to provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.stir_up
English
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- 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,...
