"stir up the animals" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stirs up the animals",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stirring up the animals",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stirred up the animals",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stirred up the animals",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "stir up the animals (third-person singular simple present stirs up the animals, present participle stirring up the animals, simple past and past participle stirred up the animals)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "2001, Richard P. Horwitz, The American Studies Anthology, page 50:",
          "text": "He styled himself both a Prohibition-flouting \"Baltimoron\" and \"an incurable snob,\" the voice of \"the intelligent minority\" determined \"to stir up the animals.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Rupert Wilkinson, Surviving a Japanese Internment Camp:",
          "text": "The Japanese were often skittish about elections: they wanted to control who they got as top administrators and feared elections might stir up the animals.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause public discontent or controversy."
      ],
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          "public",
          "public"
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          "discontent",
          "discontent"
        ],
        [
          "controversy",
          "controversy"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stir up the animals"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stirs up the animals",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stirring up the animals",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stirred up the animals",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stirred up the animals",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "stir up the animals (third-person singular simple present stirs up the animals, present participle stirring up the animals, simple past and past participle stirred up the animals)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "2001, Richard P. Horwitz, The American Studies Anthology, page 50:",
          "text": "He styled himself both a Prohibition-flouting \"Baltimoron\" and \"an incurable snob,\" the voice of \"the intelligent minority\" determined \"to stir up the animals.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Rupert Wilkinson, Surviving a Japanese Internment Camp:",
          "text": "The Japanese were often skittish about elections: they wanted to control who they got as top administrators and feared elections might stir up the animals.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause public discontent or controversy."
      ],
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        [
          "public",
          "public"
        ],
        [
          "discontent",
          "discontent"
        ],
        [
          "controversy",
          "controversy"
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    }
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  "word": "stir up the animals"
}