Synonyms of bestir

bestir

verb

as in to awaken

Related Words

• awaken
• stir
• arouse
• awake
• wake
• rise
• arise
• roll out
• get up
• uprise
• turn out

Dissimilar Words

• retire
• rest
• turn in
• sleep
• nod
• drop off
• bed (down)
• doze
• slumber
• settle
• snooze
• nap
• lie (down)
• bunk
• roost
• perch
• lie up
• couch
• recline
• catnap
• flop (down)
• doss (down)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bestir

Newspapers can barely bestir themselves to report on the latest inhumanity in Ukraine — the latest bombing of a school, say. — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Nov. 2024

Witnesses—from staffers and family members to congresspeople—conjured a muted Commander-in-Chief, who could not bestir himself, as armed rioters stormed the Capitol building, to rise from his seat at the head of the West Wing’s dining-room table and call off the mob. — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022

If the charges against Bob Kraft are proven to be true, then Goodell should bestir himself to punish the Patriots owner severely, and with something beyond a fine. — Charles P. Pierce, Sports Illustrated, 16 Mar. 2019

Nobody in all his years of coaching at Temple has bestirred Litwack from the bench so often as Drew Nolan. — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 8 June 2018

And yet most of us have still not bestirred ourselves to care, much less to march in the streets demanding change. — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017