"cause a stir" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-cause a stir.ogg [Australia] Forms: causes a stir [present, singular, third-person], causing a stir [participle, present], caused a stir [participle, past], caused a stir [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} cause a stir (third-person singular simple present causes a stir, present participle causing a stir, simple past and past participle caused a stir)
  1. (intransitive) To cause controversy, or raise a disturbance. Tags: intransitive Translations (cause controversy): 引起轟動 (Chinese Mandarin), 引起轰动 (yǐnqǐ hōngdòng) (Chinese Mandarin), aiheuttaa hämmennystä (Finnish), aiheuttaa häiriötä (Finnish), gerar comoção (uma) (Portuguese), causar comoção (uma) (Portuguese), causar revuelo (Spanish), dar la campanada (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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