Crossword-Solution: BESTIR 6 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Bestir v. t. To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life
and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun.

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Word Anagrams
BESTIR anagram BISTER, BISTRE, BITERS, IBERTS, SIBERT, TRIBES

We have 38 clues for the answer “BESTIR”

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Start to be active 1 answer
Anagram for tribes 1 answer
Busy (oneself). 1 answer
MOVE with vigor/vigour 1 answer
Put into brisk action. 1 answer
Rouse (oneself) 1 answer
Move with vigor. 2 answers
MOVE vigorously 2 answers
Move a Muscle 3 answers
Exert oneself 5 answers
Rouse to action. 7 answers
Heed the alarm 8 answers
Incite to action. 10 answers
Move about 15 answers
Become active 15 answers
Get moving 21 answers
Whet 24 answers
mobilize 27 answers
Foment 28 answers
wake 32 answers
hurtle 35 answers
mobilise 36 answers
Waken 38 answers
Get a move on! 42 answers
Churn 45 answers
Instigate 45 answers
Make Haste 49 answers
Get going. 51 answers
Awaken 57 answers
Rouse 60 answers
Chal-lenge 70 answers
Agitate 70 answers
Animate 73 answers
Excite 76 answers
Incite 76 answers
Disturb 79 answers
Arouse. 81 answers
Move 93 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BESTIR (5)

They heard, and were abasht, and up they sprung Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Bestir ye one and all, My henchmen! Get ye axes! Speed away To yonder eminence! I too will go, For all my resolution this way sways.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
Burials As it was now quite light, the party, none of whom had eaten or slept since the previous morning, began to bestir themselves to prepare food.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Bestir yourself, dear Rowland, or we may be taught to think that virtue herself is setting a bad example.” “Heaven forbid,” cried Rowland, “that I should set the examples of virtue! I am quite willing to follow them, however, and if I don’t do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have not recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
Decision, salubrity, jocosity, prosperity, seem to hover within his call; he is evidently a practical man, but the idea in his case, has undefined and mysterious boundaries, which invite the imagination to bestir itself on his behalf.
The American Henry James 1994

Quotes with BESTIR (3)

We breathe too fast to be able to grasp things in themselves or to expose their fragility. Our panting postulates and distorts them, creates and disfigures them, and binds us to them. I bestir myself, therefore I emit a world as suspect as my speculation which justifies it; I espouse movement, which changes me into a generator of being, into an artisan of fictions, while my cosmogonic verve makes me forget that, led on by the whirlwind of acts, I am nothing but an acolyte of …
Emil M. Cioran The Temptation to Exist
If human pleasure did not have both a lid and a time limit, we would not bestir ourselves to do things that were not pleasurable, such as toiling for our subsistence. And then we would not survive. By the same token, should our mass mind ever become discontented with the restricted pleasures doled out by nature, as well as disgruntled over the lack of restrictions on pain, we would omit the mandates of survival from our lives out of a stratospherically acerbic indignation. An…
Thomas Ligotti The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.
Charlotte Bronte Shirley
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 31 times in crossword archives (1942–2024).