FluentPlex

agitation

/ædʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/ sustantivo C1

En español: agitación, desasosiego, inquietud

  1. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being disrupted with violence, or with irregular action; commotion. (countable, uncountable) · During a storm the sea is in agitation.
  2. A disturbance of personal tranquillity; disturbance of someone's peace of mind; an emotion combining irritation, restlessness and aggravation; a feeling of being riled up or bothered to the point of experiencing distress and tension. (countable, uncountable) · She causes great agitation within me.
  3. Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc. (countable, uncountable) · the antislavery agitation· labor agitation
  4. Putting into motion by shaking or stirring, often to achieve mixing. (countable, uncountable)

Plural agitations

+ Guardar para repasar

De la biblioteca

The agitation and tears which the subject occasioned brought on a headache; and it grew so much worse towards the evening that, added to her unwillingness to see Mr.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 217 · B2
Having been frequently in company with him since her return, agitation was pretty well over; the agitations of former partiality entirely so.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 264 · B2
But the spiritless condition which this event threw her into was shortly relieved, and her mind opened again to the agitation of hope, by an article of news which then began to be in circulation.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 307 · B2
Darcy rise also and follow him, and her agitation on seeing it was extreme.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 356 · B2

Aprende agitation en textos reales

Con una cuenta gratuita, pasa el cursor sobre cualquier palabra de la biblioteca para ver su significado, escúchala en voz alta, guarda palabras para repasarlas al ritmo de tu memoria y descubre cuánto de cada libro ya conoces.

Crear cuenta gratuita
Palabras, significados, pronunciaciones y traducciones de Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); la frecuencia de cada palabra, de wordfreq. Convertido en este diccionario por FluentPlex.