All bestir synonyms

verb bestir

• act — When you act, you do something for a particular purpose.
• stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
• reorganize — arrange differently
• hum — to make a low, continuous, droning sound.
• scurry — to go or move quickly or in haste.
• flit — to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along: bees flitting from flower to flower.
• zip — zip code.
• scoot — to go swiftly or hastily; dart.
• jog — to move or shake with a push or jerk: The horseman jogged the reins lightly.
• work up — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
• awaken — To awaken a feeling in a person means to cause them to start having this feeling.
• rouse — to bring out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, fancied security, apathy, depression, etc.: He was roused to action by courageous words.
• inspire — to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
• inflame — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
• arouse — If something arouses a particular reaction or attitude in people, it causes them to have that reaction or attitude.
• whet — to sharpen (a knife, tool, etc.) by grinding or friction.
• sharpen — knife: make sharper
• provoke — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
• stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
• foment — to instigate or foster (discord, rebellion, etc.); promote the growth or development of: to foment trouble; to foment discontent.
• prompt — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
• bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
• incite — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
• motivate — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
• generate — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
• galvanize — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
• kindle — (of animals, especially rabbits) to bear (young); produce (offspring).
• precipitate — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
• cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
• instigate — to cause by incitement; foment: to instigate a quarrel.
• disturb — to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
• trigger — a small projecting tongue in a firearm that, when pressed by the finger, actuates the mechanism that discharges the weapon.
• rile — to irritate or vex.
• startle — to disturb or agitate suddenly as by surprise or alarm.
• heighten — to increase the height of; make higher.
• whip up — to beat with a strap, lash, rod, or the like, especially by way of punishment or chastisement; flog; thrash: Criminals used to be whipped for minor offenses.
• affect — If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
• touch — to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
• spark — Muriel (Sarah) (Camberg) 1918–2006, British novelist and writer, born in Scotland.
• raise — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
• whirl — to turn around, spin, or rotate rapidly: The merry-go-round whirled noisily.
• rush — to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
• hasten — to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
• run — execution
• fuss — an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby.
• tear — the act of tearing.
• scamper — to run or go hastily or quickly.
• scramble — to climb or move quickly using one's hands and feet, as down a rough incline.
• dash — If you dash somewhere, you run or go there quickly and suddenly.
• whisk — to move with a rapid, sweeping stroke: She whisked everything off the table with her arm.