upstir
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
Definition of upstir
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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Commotion; disturbance, tumult.
“But yee […] ought to be like sheep to your King, who ought to be like a Shepheard unto you, even in the time when your profit was sought, and better redresse was intended then your upstirres and unquietnesse could obtaine […]”
“The world is now in an upstir because this association is about to hold its great convention in New York City”
“Needless to say, this has caused quite an upstir with people […]”
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noun
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Commotion; disturbance, tumult.
“But yee […] ought to be like sheep to your King, who ought to be like a Shepheard unto you, even in the time when your profit was sought, and better redresse was intended then your upstirres and unquietnesse could obtaine […]”
“The world is now in an upstir because this association is about to hold its great convention in New York City”
“Needless to say, this has caused quite an upstir with people […]”
verb
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To disturb, cause a commotion, stir up.
“And conscience to upstir him […]”
“[…] upstirring of the modern democrat against the aristocrat […]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From up- + stir.
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