BESTIR (bestirred, bestirring)

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Irregular inflected forms: bestirred    , bestirring   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bestir mean? 

• BESTIR (verb)
  The verb BESTIR has 1 sense:

1. become active

  Familiarity information: BESTIR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BESTIR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bestir    ... he / she / it bestirs   
Past simple: bestirred   
Past participle: bestirred   
-ing form: bestirring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become active

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

bestir; rouse

Context example:

He finally bestirred himself

Hypernyms (to "bestir" is one way to...):

be active; move (be in a state of action)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Young man, said he, I know not who you may be, and I am not much inclined to bestir myself, but if it were not that I am bent upon taking my ease, I swear, by the sword of Joshua! that I would lay my dog-whip across your shoulders for daring to fill the air with these discordant bellowings.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The next morning when Dame Ilsabill awoke it was broad daylight, and she jogged the fisherman with her elbow, and said, Get up, husband, and bestir yourself, for we must be king of all the land.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Few men were capable of greater muscular effort, and he was undoubtedly one of the finest boxers of his weight that I have ever seen; but he looked upon aimless bodily exertion as a waste of energy, and he seldom bestirred himself save when there was some professional object to be served.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)