agitate
/ˈæ.d͡ʒɪ.teɪt/ verb C1- To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person). · He was greatly agitated by the news.
- To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake. · to agitate water in a vessel· The wind agitates the sea.
- To participate in political agitation (sense 3).
He/she/it agitates · Past agitated · Past participle agitated · -ing form agitating
Verb forms
- Base form
- agitate
- He/she/it
- agitates
- Past
- agitated
- Past participle
- agitated
- -ing form
- agitating
From the library
“Hope!” faintly murmured Fernand, but the word seemed to die away on his pale agitated lips, and a convulsive spasm passed over his countenance.
No, she was not hurrying; it did not seem to him that she was particularly agitated.
The guests were still at table, and the heated and energetic conversation that prevailed betrayed the violent and vindictive passions that then agitated each dweller of the South, where unhappily, for five centuries religious strife had long given increased bitterness to the violence of party feeling.
The prisoner whom you there see pale, agitated, and alarmed, instead of—as is the case when a curtain falls on a tragedy—going home to sup peacefully with his family, and then retiring to rest, that he may recommence his mimic woes on the morrow,—is removed from your sight merely to be reconducted to his prison and delivered up to the executioner.
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