• Stirring

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    stirring
    1. invigorating or inspiring
      • Orwell Animal Farm|1As he had said, his voice was hoarse, but he sang well enough, and it was a stirring tune, something between 'Clementine' and 'La Cucaracha'.
      • 2011, March 1, Phil McNulty , Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd, But Chelsea, who left Didier Drogba on the bench as coach Carlo Ancelotti favoured Fernando Torres, staged a stirring fightback to move up to fourth and keep United in their sights on a night when nothing other than victory would have kept the Blues in contention.
      • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.

    Verb

    stirring
    1. Present participle of stir

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    Noun

    stirring

    (plural stirrings)
    1. (gerund of stir) An occasion on which something stirs or is stirred
      • The reduction takes the central bank back to where it was in December 2005, when it began raising its key rate despite objections from some political figures and many economists about choking the early stirrings of a recovery in growth.
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