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stirs up the animals

stirs up the animals is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stir up the animals.

Meaning of stir up the animals

Verb

stir up the animals (third-person singular simple present stirs up the animals, present participle stirring up the animals, simple past and past participle stirred up the animals)

  1. To cause public discontent or controversy.
    • 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

Questions about stirs up the animals

What is stirs up the animals the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Stirs up the animals is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stir up the animals.

Words near stirs up the animals in the dictionary

  1. stirs someone's blood
  2. stirs the embers
  3. stirs the pot
  4. stirs up
  5. stirs up a hornets' nest
  6. stirs up the animals
  7. STIs
  8. stishie
  9. stishies
  10. stishovite
  11. stishovites

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