All bestir synonyms

verb bestir

• make short work of — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
• make time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
• make tracks — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
• shake a leg — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
• speed up — an increasing of speed.
• step on it — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
• egg on — to incite or urge; encourage (usually followed by on).
• turn on — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• burn up — If something burns up or if fire burns it up, it is completely destroyed by fire or strong heat.
• fire up — start ignition of
• key up — a small metal instrument specially cut to fit into a lock and move its bolt.
• bring down — When people or events bring down a government or ruler, they cause the government or ruler to lose power.
• bring on — If something brings on an illness, pain, or feeling, especially one that you often suffer from, it causes you to have it.
• build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
• roust — to rout, as from a place: to roust someone out of bed.
• call forth — to cause (something) to come into action or existence
• give rise to — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
• innerve — to supply with nervous energy; invigorate; animate.
• call to arms — a command to report for active military duty.
• come about — When you say how or when something came about, you say how or when it happened.
• get together — an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
• round up — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
• wreak havoc — (Idiomatic) To cause damage, disruption, or destruction.
• pep up — lively spirits or energy; vigor; animation.
• ask for it — to put a question to; inquire of: I asked him but he didn't answer.
• get going — an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
• make waves — a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
• steam up — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
• psych — to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out): to psych out the competition.
• stir up — to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
• switch on — the act or process of switching on an ignition, light, appliance, etc.
• look alive — having life; living; existing; not dead or lifeless.
• arise — If a situation or problem arises, it begins to exist or people start to become aware of it.
• call — a demand for redeemable bonds or shares to be presented for repayment
• get up — an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
• nudge — to annoy with persistent complaints, criticisms, or pleas; nag: He was always nudging his son to move to a better neighborhood.
• prod — to poke or jab with or as if with something pointed: I prodded him with my elbow.
• rise and shine — get out of bed
• shake — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
• stretch — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
• turn out — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• bring to life — to bring back to consciousness
• come to — When someone who is unconscious comes to, they recover consciousness.
• roll out — a document of paper, parchment, or the like, that is or may be rolled up, as for storing; scroll.
• open one's eyes — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.