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verb

Agitate v. t. (past & past part. agitated; pres. part. agitating)

To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds... agitate the air."

To move or actuate. (R.)

To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated. "The mind of man is agitated by various passions."

To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.

To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.

Synonyms: To move; shake; excite; rouse; disturb; distract; revolve; discuss; debate; canvass.

adjective

agitated adj.

Troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of unagitated. "Agitated parents" Note: Narrower terms are: demoniac, demoniacal; distraught, overwrought; disturbed, jolted, shaken; feverish, hectic; frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied; psychedelic; rampageous, raging, frenzied; wild-eyed. Also See: discomposed, excited, impatient, tense, unquiet, unsteady.

Throwing oneself from side to side.

Synonyms: tossing

Physically disturbed or set in motion; as, the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled. Opposite of unagitated and left alone, allowed to stand. Note: (Narrower terms are: churning, churned-up, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent; stirred.)

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Etymology of 'Agitated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Agitated" Quotes from Famous Books

... which the sympathy of those lively and susceptible children of the South broke forth. The windows and balconies of the Palace were thronged with the wives and daughters of the lesser Barons and more opulent citizens; and Adrian, with a slight start, beheld amongst them,—pale—agitated—tearful,—the lovely face of his Irene—a face that even thus would have outshone all present, but for one by her side, whose beauty the emotion of the hour only served to embellish. The dark, large, and flashing eyes of Nina di Raselli, just bedewed, were fixed ...

— Rienzi • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... mistress overheard this remark. Her feelings were just in that agitated state to take the alarm, and she determined to flirt with a young man of the name of Thurston, with a view to awaken Betts's jealousy, if he had any, and to give vent to her own spleen. This Tom Thurston was one of those tall, good-looking ...

— Autobiography of a Pocket-Hankerchief • James Fenimore Cooper

... could observe, did not say much; but, like his wife, he continued in a state of pleasantly agitated activity till the momentous ...

— Madame de Treymes • Edith Wharton

... on the discovery of which, the son met the knight returning in the night from his mother, and having inflicted on him a severe corporal punishment, and mutilated him, sent him away with great disgrace. The mother, alarmed at the confusion which this event caused, and agitated with grief, breathed nothing but revenge. She therefore went to king Henry I., and declared with assertions more vindictive than true, and corroborated by an oath, that her son Mahel was not the son of Bernard, ...

— The Itinerary of Archibishop Baldwin through Wales • Giraldus Cambrensis

... exudes in a white foam from the trunk of the willow; when between the plant world and ourselves a magnetic current seems to exist, which seeks to wed their fraternizing emanations with our own personality. He was oppressed by the vividness of the verdure, intoxicated with the odor of vegetation, agitated by the confused music of the birds, and in this May fever of excitement, his thoughts wandered with secret delight to Reine Vincart, to this queen of the woods, who was the personification of all the witchery of the forest. Since their January promenade ...

— A Woodland Queen, Complete • Andre Theuriet

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