bestir oneself

What does bestir oneself mean?

bestir oneself means "start to be active".

What is another word for bestir oneself?

Close synonyms include get cracking, get going, get moving, get weaving, get started. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bestir oneself a common word?

bestir oneself is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bestir oneself come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.