astir
- s out of bed
are they astir yet? - s on the move
the whole town was astir over the incident
- The candy industry, made up of small, struggling companies, is astir with mergers and sellouts, and Peter Paul has become a key target.
- Long dismissed as a desert backwater with scant hope of achieving self-sufficiency, Jordan is astir.
- And some kind of dissension is astir in the ranks of the leadership.