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Bestir Oneself

Definition: Bestir Oneself

Bestir Oneself

Verb

1. Start to be active; "Get cracking, please!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Bestir Oneself

Synonyms: get cracking (v), get going (v), get moving (v), get rolling (v), get started (v), get weaving (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Bestir Oneself

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Activity

Verb: be active; Adjective: busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about one, bustle, fuss; raise up, kick up a dust; push; make a push, make a fuss, make a stir; go ahead, push forward; fight one's way, elbow one's way; make progress; toll; (labor); plod, persist; (persevere) a; keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling.

Exertion

Bestir oneself (be active); take trouble, trouble oneself.

Haste

Bestir oneself; (be active); lose no time, lose not a moment, lose not an instant; make short work of; make the best of one's time, make the best of one's way.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: Bestir Oneself

Language Translations for "bestir oneself"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vihem në lëvizje. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نشط (activate, active, animate, brisk, buoyant, elevate, ginger, harden, hum, invigorate, live, liven, pep up, perk up, pick up, practising, pushing, quick, quicken, reactivate, rekindle, revive, rouse, stimulate, stringent, strong, vivify, waken), ‏ثور على نفسه. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

раздвижвам се (bestir, buck up, hot, irrupt, move, stir, stretch one's legs), потрудвам се (do some work, try and do smth.). (various references)

   

French

  

se remuer, se démener, s'activer. (various references)

   

German

  

sich rühren (bestir, buck up, budge, get a move on, move, stir). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κινούμαι (bestir, budge, move, stir), δραστηριοποιούμαι (grapple). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rászánja magát (to come across). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scuotersi (wag), muoversi (budge, flap, get a move on, go, move, shift, stir, thrash), agitarsi (agitate, bustle, fidget, flounder, flutter, fuss, rain, rainfall, ruffle, shake, stir, tingle, toss, tumble, twitch, wag). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

estirbay oneselfay

   

Russian 

  

собраться (assemble, club, collect, crowd together, gather, get together, meet, reunite). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

požurivati (rush). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

moverse (budge, draw, hinge, move, move oneself, move over, quicken, relocate, shift, stir, travel, waft, wag, wash, work), darse prisa (buck up, get a move on, hasten, hurry up, hustle, make haste, shake a leg, speed, step on it). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

röra på sig (get moving). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

harekete geçmek (gang, gang up, roll up, start to move, take action), gayretlenmek, canlanmak (brighten, brighten up, buck up, come to life, firm, freshen, kick up one's heels, kindle, liven, liven up, perk, perk oneself, perk oneself up, perk up, quicken, refresh, revive, rouse, rouse oneself, rouse up, stir, wake, wake up). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

енергійно взятися (go at). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

ymysgwyd. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Bestir Oneself

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

expergiscentur, expergiscere. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Bestir Oneself

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-f-i-l-n-o-r-s-s-t"

-2 letters: fertileness.

-3 letters: benefiters, firestones, freestones, ostensible, stoneflies.

-4 letters: benefiter, briefless, briefness, enlistees, enlisters, entresols, eternises, felonries, felstones, firestone, fleetness, freestone, frontless, infesters, listeners, loftiness, reenlists, selenites, sensibler, serotines, softeners, stilbenes, strobiles.

-5 letters: beefiest, beefless, beelines, beeriest, beetlers, belfries, benefits, berlines, betonies, blisters, bolsters, boneless, bonesets, bonfires, bornites, botflies, briefest, bristles, bristols, ebonises, ebonites, eeriness.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-e-f-i-l-n-o-r-s-s-t"
 

+3 letters: profitablenesses.

 

+5 letters: unprofitablenesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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