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
And that I may enjoy the true savor of the customary and, methinks, sometimes strongly realistic entertainment of such occasions, those in charge have bestirred themselves to find royal game for the baiting.
Any ordinary people less imbued with Liverpool and Manchester notions would have bestirred themselves how to prevent, or at least lessen, the number of those casualties.
From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever
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
