Crossword-Solution: BESTIR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bestir | v. t. | To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BESTIR | anagram | BISTER, BISTRE, BITERS, IBERTS, SIBERT, TRIBES |
We have 38 clues for the answer “BESTIR”
| Clue | Answers |
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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…
I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 31 times in crossword archives (1942–2024).