bestir
verb (used with object)
to stir up; rouse to action (often used reflexively).
bestirred
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past participleof bestir.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof bestir.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
bestirverb (used with object)to stir up; rouse to action (often used reflexively).
Example Sentences
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If they bestirred themselves to ask “how is he right?” those questions and his answers didn’t make it into the broadcast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
Given the cornucopia of issues Americans have to select from each day, the recent firing and rehiring of the House of Representatives’ chaplain may not have bestirred many to form an opinion.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2018
Slightly fewer than fifty-five per cent of all voting-age adults bestirred themselves to go to the polls.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2017
There is no amount of lawlessness we will not, at our convenience, argue was bestirred by someone else’s choices or selfness or lack of vigilance.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2015
More wakeful than he’d been, he realized that winter had become less cold, and he bestirred himself to be up and around.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
