bestir in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for bestir in the English»French Dictionary

bestir <pres part bestirring; pret, pp bestirred> [Brit bɪˈstəː, Am bəˈstər] VB refl form

to bestir oneself

s'agiter

bestir in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for bestir in the English»French Dictionary

bestir <-rr-> [bɪˈstɜ:ʳ, Am -ˈstɜ:r] VB trans form

to bestir oneself

se démener

bestir Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to bestir oneself

se démener

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

I sincerely hope that our city councillors will, without delay, bestir themselves and prevent the vandal action that is now contemplated.

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He neither required nor bestirred himself to sit through any awkward and heavily self-edited tributes from party leaders who had laboured mightily, for years, to get him gone.

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But bestir himself, you will agree with me, he did.

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It is undoubtedly true that the people who migrate show a level of initiative and industry than many who want to migrate but do not bestir themselves.

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Who says that achievement oriented nations that work hard and productively, have to support those who don't bestir themselves to help their own people.

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When you're too sick to bestir yourself any more than dialing the phone and answering your doorbell, passable wonton soup is better than no wonton soup.

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The 5,800 volunteers in 2004 also discovered that urban birds like to lie in, bestirring themselves later than their country cousins.

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Some neighbours maintain that there are many desirable alternate locations and that, if we bestirred ourselves to look, we could easily go somewhere else.

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Women who actually accomplished magnificent things never bestirred themselves much about gender or position in society.

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Took part also the smiths of "dadaps" (embossed coverings) of gold and silver, all of them bestirring themselves the more in their respective customary occupations.

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