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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

... the sea is uncommonly agitated, the water finds its way into creeks and holes of rocks, which in its calmer state it never reaches, in like manner the effect of these turbulent times is felt even at Orchard Side, where in general we live as undisturbed by the political element as shrimps or cockles ...

— The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 • Ministry of Education

... white toy-poodle walked the terrace with his mistress—an agitated little bundle of white curls; sometimes running round and round her; then hurrying on before, or dropping behind, only to rush on, in unexpected haste, at the corners; almost tripping her up, as ...

— The Mistress of Shenstone • Florence L. Barclay

... Kansas town one March day, as I was returning to the house in which I was lodging, my attention was attracted to a black-capped chickadee, which was flitting about and calling in an agitated way in one of the trees. Two English sparrows, a cock and his mate, were responsible for the little bird's perturbation. What were they doing? Something rude, as usual. Perched on a couple of twigs, they were bending over, stretching out their necks and peering into a small ...

— Our Bird Comrades • Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser

... the butcher shop, will remember that this noble animal has a genuine camel's hair tail about eight inches long, with a chenille tassel at the end, which he throws up into the rarified atmosphere of the far west, whenever he is surprised or agitated. ...

— Remarks • Bill Nye

... not been renewed; men's minds were occupied by other thoughts. Luther, whose piercing glance had discerned the condition of the people, had already from the summit of the Wartburg addressed them in serious exhortations calculated to restrain their agitated minds: ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 9 • Various

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