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Definition: Bestir Oneself |
Bestir OneselfVerb1. Start to be active; "Get cracking, please!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Bestir OneselfSynonyms: get cracking (v), get going (v), get moving (v), get rolling (v), get started (v), get weaving (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| 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 собраться (assemble, club, collect, crowd together, gather, get together, meet, reunite). (various references) požurivati (rush). (various references) 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) röra på sig (get moving). (various references) 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) енергійно взятися (go at). (various references) ymysgwyd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | expergiscentur, expergiscere. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Translations: Ancient | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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