different between enkindle vs stir_up

English

Verb

enkindle (third-person singular simple present enkindles, present participle enkindling, simple past and past participle enkindled)

1. (archaic, transitive) To kindle; to arouse or evoke.
   • 1603-06, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3:

     That, trusted home, might yet enkindle you unto the crown, besides the Thane of Cawdor.

   • 1809, Philip Freneau, "Occasioned By a Legislation Bill proposing a Taxation upon Newspapers":

     "By them enkindled, every heart grew warm, / "By them excited, all were taught to arm, […]

Translations

Anagrams

• enlinked

English

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To arouse or excite (passion or action).
   • Episode 16:

     All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag […]

2. (transitive) To mix (ingredients) by stirring.
3. (transitive) To move or disturb slightly; to make turbid.

Translations

References

• “stir up”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• "stir up" in the Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), K Dictionaries limited, 2000-2006.
• "stir up" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• purist, spruit, tripus, uprist, upstir