Influence
Influence verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.
Usage example: the news reports of the devastating flood influenced a great many people to make contributions for food and supplies
Stir and influence are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stir" instead a verb "Influence".
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| good | good influence | good stir |
| considerable | considerable influence | considerable stir |
| big | big influence | big stir |
| great | great influence | great stir |
| Other adjectives: enormous, huge, little, bad, major, negative. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- With Serial Experiments Lain, producer Yasuyuki Ueda hoped to stir a "cultural war" (seriously) between traditional Japanese and American values, due to the latter's perceived negative influence on post-WWII Japan.
Cite this Source
Stir and Influence. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/influence/stir
Influence & Stir. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/influence/stir>.
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