Crossword clue
Stir up crossword clue
22 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "stir up", from 3 letters up to 9, grouped below by the length of your slot.
Written by Blake Boege
Answers by length
Everything below fits the clue. What separates them is length, running from 3 letters to 9, so find your row and ignore the rest.
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What this list looks like
The 4-letter row is the crowded one, holding 7 of the 22.
Setters reach for 3-letter answers constantly, and here that means VEX.
9 of the 22 are not synonyms at all but specific kinds of what the clue describes.
Which one does the setter mean?
Four squares is most often ROIL, which means to make a liquid cloudy by disturbing it and transfers neatly to a crowd. RILE is the same four letters for the same idea applied to a person, so check the crossings carefully.
How these differ
Two senses run through this list. The physical one is BEAT, TOSS, ROIL and SCRAMBLE, all about mixing something by agitating it. The social one is FOMENT, INCITE, INSTIGATE and AGITATE, all about causing trouble deliberately, with FOMENT reserved almost entirely for rebellion and unrest. IGNITE and INFLAME sit between the two as metaphors from fire. Note that SETOFF and SHAKEUP are two-word phrases run together, which is how a grid would take them.
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Where these answers come from
No puzzle was consulted to build this page. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “stir up” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 15 of them too. We hold no newspaper's answer key and reproduce no published crossword.
Common questions
- What is the answer to the crossword clue "stir up"?
- There is more than one. 22 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Four squares is most often ROIL, which means to make a liquid cloudy by disturbing it and transfers neatly to a crowd. RILE is the same four letters for the same idea applied to a person, so check the crossings carefully.
- How many letters is the answer to "stir up"?
- Anything from 3 to 9. The length with the most candidates is 4. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.
- How reliable are these answers?
- 15 of the 22 appear in two independently compiled reference works, WordNet and Moby Thesaurus, rather than one. All of them are in the 173,000-word dictionary this site searches. None of them comes from any published puzzle.