stir sth up

— Phrasal Verb with stir

/stɜːr/ verb (present participle stirring, past tense and past participle stirred)

Definition

ARGUE › to cause arguments or bad feelings between people, often intentionally: I think she just likes to stir up trouble.

REMEMBER › If something stirs up memories, it makes you remember events in the past: The photographs stirred up some painful memories.

(Definition of stir sth up from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

something which threatens to cause problems or unhappiness in the future

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