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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

stir up the animals en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To cause public discontent or controversy.
    • The Japanese were often skittish about elections: they wanted to control who they got as top administrators and feared elections might stir up the animals. 2013, Rupert Wilkinson, Surviving a Japanese Internment Camp:
    • He styled himself both a Prohibition-flouting "Baltimoron" and "an incurable snob," the voice of "the intelligent minority" determined "to stir up the animals." 2001, Richard P. Horwitz, The American Studies Anthology, page 50:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
stirs up the animals Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
stirring up the animals Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stirred up the animals Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stirred up the animals Tense=Past lexicographic