bestir
verb (used with object)
to stir up; rouse to action (often used reflexively).
have bestirred
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present perfectof bestir.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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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
In the year since the Court fight, the President may have seemed to have slackened his pace because other of the people's representatives have bestirred themselves.
From Time Magazine Archive
For at Ulubræ it is certain that an enormous mass of frogs have bestirred themselves to do me honour.
From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
Yet, considering his own interest in the matter, he might have bestirred himself with a little more alacrity.
From House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
At another time I should probably have bestirred myself and found out what all this meant, but I have been so occupied and absorbed with the Derby that I could think of nothing else.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Charles Greville
