Influence and Stir

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".

Stir

Stir verb - To cause (as a liquid) to move about in a circle especially repeatedly.

Influence and stir are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Influence" instead a verb "Stir".

Nearby Words: stirring, stirred

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

way influence way stir way
world influence world stir world
feelings influence feelings stir feelings
emotions influence emotions stir emotions

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.
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