Vocabulary
Stirred
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
To cause (a liquid) to move about in a
circle especially repeatedly
Urdu meaning
ہلایا / حرکت دی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur`s support for the dead Kalabagh dam project has stirred up a storm.
- HE Independence Day festivities have stirred something long thought to have been dormant within our political class.
- Others will remember Zbigniew Brzezinski`s casual disregard for sacrificing some `stirred up Muslims` in order to defeat the Soviet Union.
- One is the canals project in Punjab, which has stirred the street in Sindh in a way not seen in decades.
- It is said that the places where one is raised an ancestral village or a grandparent`shome perhaps-leave afirmimprint onthe soul, and whenever a person returns to these places a deep emotion is stirred within.
Synonyms
whip, shake, shift
Antonyms
Freeze , remain, stick around
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