• (RP) IPA: /bɪˈstɜː/
• (GA) IPA: /bɪˈstɝ/, /biˈstɝ/, /bɘˈstɝ/

bestir (bestirs, present participle bestirring; past and past participle bestirred)

1. (transitive) To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor.
2. (reflexive) To make active; to rouse oneself.
   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 9, in Riders of the Purple Sage: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219 ↗:

     When he had bestirred himself, […] it was clear daylight, though the sun had not tipped the yellow wall in the east.

• Spanish: animar

• German: aufraffen (reflexive)
• Spanish: animarse