bestir
verb
be·stir
| \ bi-ˈstər
, bē-\
, bē-\
bestirred;
bestirring;
bestirs
Definition of bestir
: to rouse to action : get going
Examples of bestir in a Sentence
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Drew Nolan caused his coach, Harry Litwack, to bestir himself from the bench. — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, "Temple's Drew Nolan, the Owl without an off-switch | Frank's Place," 8 June 2018 Nobody in all his years of coaching at Temple has bestirred Litwack from the bench so often as Drew Nolan. — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, "Temple's Drew Nolan, the Owl without an off-switch | Frank's Place," 8 June 2018 And yet most of us have still not bestirred ourselves to care, much less to march in the streets demanding change. — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, "The Energy 202: FERC is up and running again. That means Trump gets more of the pipelines he wants.," 19 Sep. 2017 And yet most of us have still not bestirred ourselves to care, much less to march in the streets demanding change. — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, "The Energy 202: FERC is up and running again. That means Trump gets more of the pipelines he wants.," 19 Sep. 2017 And yet most of us have still not bestirred ourselves to care, much less to march in the streets demanding change. — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, "The Energy 202: FERC is up and running again. That means Trump gets more of the pipelines he wants.," 19 Sep. 2017 And yet most of us have still not bestirred ourselves to care, much less to march in the streets demanding change. — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, "The Energy 202: FERC is up and running again. That means Trump gets more of the pipelines he wants.," 19 Sep. 2017 And yet most of us have still not bestirred ourselves to care, much less to march in the streets demanding change. — Justin Gillis, New York Times, "The Real Unknown of Climate Change: Our Behavior," 18 Sep. 2017 And yet most of us have still not bestirred ourselves to care, much less to march in the streets demanding change. — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, "The Energy 202: FERC is up and running again. That means Trump gets more of the pipelines he wants.," 19 Sep. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'bestir.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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bestir
verb
be·stir
| \ bi-ˈstər
\
\
bestirred;
bestirring
Kids Definition of bestir
: to stir up : rouse to action
Fairies came trooping forth … to busy and bestir themselves.— Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth