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agitated

/ˈæd͡ʒɪteɪtɪd/ adjective C1
  1. Angry, annoyed, bothered or worked up.
  2. Of a solution or substance, violently and chaotically moving around, such as due to being shaken.
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Wickham’s alarm now appeared in a heightened complexion and agitated look; for a few minutes he was silent; till, shaking off his embarrassment, he turned to her again, and said in the gentlest of accents,--
Pride and Prejudice, p. 265 · B2
Darcy was not of a disposition in which happiness overflows in mirth; and Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather _knew_ that she was happy than _felt_ herself to be so; for, besides the immediate embarrassment, there were other evils before her.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 352 · B2
A MOUNTAIN was once greatly agitated.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 8 · B2
The official received us with a very grave face and showed us into a sitting-room, where an exceedingly unkempt and agitated elderly man, clad in a flannel dressing-gown, was pacing up and down.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 73 · C1

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