Stirring
English
Adjective
stirring
- invigorating or inspiring
- 2011 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.
Verb
stirring
- Present participle of stir.
Noun
Stirring (plural Stirrings)- (gerund of stir) An occasion on which something stirs or is stirred
- 2009 January 16 Carter Dougherty
- 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.
Thesaurus
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