stirring
adjectifverbenomattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈstɜːɹɪŋ//
- États-Unis//ˈstɝɪŋ//
invigorating or inspiring
adjectif
- 1
invigorating or inspiring
As he had said, his voice was hoarse, but he sang well enough, and it was a stirring tune, something between 'Clementine' and 'La Cucaracha'.
But Chelsea, who left Didier Drogba on the bench as coach Carlo Ancelotti favoured Fernando Torres, staged a stirring fightback to move up to fourth and keep United in their sights on a night when nothing other than victory would have kept the Blues in contention.
On Friday night Dion delivered a stirring rendition of the 1950 song accompanied by a pianist, with the Olympics rings above her.
Étymologie
By surface analysis, stir + -ing.
verbe
- 1
Aussi une forme de stirpresent participle and gerund of stir
nom
- 1
An occasion on which something stirs or is stirred
The reduction takes the central bank back to where it was in December 2005, when it began raising its key rate despite objections from some political figures and many economists about choking the early stirrings of a recovery in growth.
Formes
- pluriel
- stirrings
- comparatif
- more stirring
- superlatif
- most stirring