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"forms": [
{
"form": "stirs the pot",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "stirring the pot",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "stirred the pot",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "stirred the pot",
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}
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},
"expansion": "stir the pot (third-person singular simple present stirs the pot, present participle stirring the pot, simple past and past participle stirred the pot)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
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"categories": [
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"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
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"word": "pot stirrer"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2023 March 25, Dan Sabbagh, “Ukrainian top brass stirs the pot with talk of Bakhmut counterattack”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "Ukrainian top brass stirs the pot with talk of Bakhmut counterattack [title]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause unrest or dissent."
],
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"dissent"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative) To cause unrest or dissent."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "stir shit"
}
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause unrest or dissent",
"word": "kylvää riitaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cause unrest or dissent",
"word": "semer la zizanie"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cause unrest or dissent",
"word": "semer la pagaille"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cause unrest or dissent",
"word": "agitare le acque"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cause unrest or dissent",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zamieszać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cause unrest or dissent",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wsadzać kij w mrowisko"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cause unrest or dissent",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wsadzić kij w mrowisko"
}
]
}
],
"word": "stir the pot"
}
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"word": "pot stirrer"
}
],
"forms": [
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"form": "stirs the pot",
"tags": [
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"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "stirring the pot",
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"present"
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},
{
"form": "stirred the pot",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "stirred the pot",
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"past"
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}
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"expansion": "stir the pot (third-person singular simple present stirs the pot, present participle stirring the pot, simple past and past participle stirred the pot)",
"name": "en-verb"
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],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2023 March 25, Dan Sabbagh, “Ukrainian top brass stirs the pot with talk of Bakhmut counterattack”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "Ukrainian top brass stirs the pot with talk of Bakhmut counterattack [title]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause unrest or dissent."
],
"links": [
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"unrest",
"unrest"
],
[
"dissent",
"dissent"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative) To cause unrest or dissent."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "stir shit"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause unrest or dissent",
"word": "kylvää riitaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cause unrest or dissent",
"word": "semer la zizanie"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cause unrest or dissent",
"word": "semer la pagaille"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cause unrest or dissent",
"word": "agitare le acque"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cause unrest or dissent",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zamieszać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cause unrest or dissent",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wsadzać kij w mrowisko"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cause unrest or dissent",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wsadzić kij w mrowisko"
}
],
"word": "stir the pot"
}
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