"stir" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

stir verbo

stir + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 53

stir controversy • stir tensions • stir debate • stir memories • stir interest • stir up trouble • stir emotions • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 11

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 14

(1) controversy, debate, protest, discussion

Kolokacji: 5

(2) tension, opposition, sugar, reaction

Kolokacji: 4

(3) memory, speculation, sentiment, thought

Kolokacji: 4

(4) interest, blood, people

Kolokacji: 3

(5) trouble, fear, concern, anxiety, unease, ...

Kolokacji: 8

(6) emotion, anger, outrage, excitement

Kolokacji: 4

(7) passion, feeling, heart, hope, unrest, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(8) hair, pot, nest

Kolokacji: 3

1. stir one's hair = mieszać czyjś włosy stir one's hair

2. stir the pot = narobić zamieszania, wsadzić kij w mrowisko stir the pot

3. stir up one's nest = wzbijać w górę czyjś gniazdo stir up one's nest

You knew going to him would stir up a hornet's nest.
I just want you to know that you're involved in stirring up a wasps' nest.
I seem to have stirred up quite a hornets' nest.
He'd have to word his report very carefully if he wasn't going to stir up a real hornets' nest.
I think you probably are going to stir up a hornet's nest here.
But you didn't, and there's not much point in stirring up a hornet's nest now.
You're stirring up a hornets' nest if you continue in this vein.
I had stirred up a hornet's nest and the town was at least debating the war.
She stirs up a whole hornets' nest of questions about how we reduce others to less than human status.
She just had to stir up the right ants' nest.

(9) coffee, tea, cream, butter, milk

Kolokacji: 5

(10) resentment, animosity

Kolokacji: 2

(11) thing

Kolokacji: 2

(12) criticism, laughter

Kolokacji: 2

(13) suspicion, doubt

Kolokacji: 2

(14) fry, tomato

Kolokacji: 2

verbo + stir

Kolokacji: 5

begin to stir • keep stirring • begin stirring • continue stirring • start stirring

stir + preposición

Kolokacji: 38

stir up • stir until • stir in • stir into • stir within • ...

stir + adjetivo/adverbio

Kolokacji: 45

stir occasionally • stir constantly • stir well • stir frequently • stir uneasily • stir restlessly • ...

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