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
She continued in very agitating reflections till the sound of Lady Catherine’s carriage made her feel how unequal she was to encounter Charlotte’s observation, and hurried her away to her room.
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,--
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.
A MOUNTAIN was once greatly agitated.
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