Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Moving about; being in motion.
- adjective Having gotten out of bed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- On the stir; on the move; stirring; active.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective In
motion ; characterized by motion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective on the move
- adjective out of bed
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Examples
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And the international community would be empowered to at least officially recognize that something wicked is astir in Syria.
Michael Hughes: UN Fiddles While Syria Burns Michael Hughes 2011
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And the international community would be empowered to at least officially recognize that something wicked is astir in Syria.
Michael Hughes: UN Fiddles While Syria Burns Michael Hughes 2011
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So looked they at each other, the horses bounding beneath them, the spring of the world and the spring of their youth astir in their blood, the secret of being trembling in their eyes to the brink of disclosure, as if about to dispel, with one magic word, all the irks and riddles of existence.
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Back, now some 40 years ago the "revolution of 1968," the streets of Paris were astir with the mass demonstrations of first students, then citizens from all walks of life, marching against a government perceived as unresponsive to its citizenry.
Raymond J. Learsy: Le Monde Aux Barricades With The Huffington Post Raymond J. Learsy 2011
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Back, now some 40 years ago the "revolution of 1968," the streets of Paris were astir with the mass demonstrations of first students, then citizens from all walks of life, marching against a government perceived as unresponsive to its citizenry.
Raymond J. Learsy: Le Monde Aux Barricades With The Huffington Post Raymond J. Learsy 2011
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It dulled them to a stupor, the feeling of intense thought with not one astir.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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A bigger surprise by far is that similar speculation is astir in Japan.
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* The pages were outlined by a thick black border and included a three-page biography that opened, Martin Luther King Jr. is like the great Yggdrasil tree, ‘whose roots,’ a poet said, ‘are deep in earth but in whose upper branches the stars of heaven are glowing and astir.’
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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By contrast, the world renowned architect Frank Gehry has set Washington astir by designing a memorial for Dwight D.
It's History (Believe It or Not) Pia Catton 2012
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Back, now some 40 years ago the "revolution of 1968," the streets of Paris were astir with the mass demonstrations of first students, then citizens from all walks of life, marching against a government perceived as unresponsive to its citizenry.
Raymond J. Learsy: Le Monde Aux Barricades With The Huffington Post Raymond J. Learsy 2011
bilby commented on the word astir
Rumble, rumble, rumble, goes the gloomy 'L'
And the street car rattles as well,
Motor-trucks wheeze and limousines purr,
Everything is noisy - all the world's astir!
Bang-whirr, bang-whirr, we'll all join too,
The pavement may be dirty, but the sky's clean blue!
- John Farrar, 'Roller Skates'.
November 4, 2008