Word Finder - agitated

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To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).

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He was greatly agitated by the news.

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To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake.

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the wind agitates the sea

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To set in motion; to actuate.

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To discuss or debate.

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To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to consider, to devise.

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politicians agitate desperate designs

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Angry, annoyed, bothered or worked up.

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(of a solution or substance) Violently and chaotically moving around, such as because of being shaken.

He was very agitated, but I don't think he meant to harm us.

She was agitated to the point of distraught.

Sonya entered the room with an agitated face.

A strange feeling agitated me all the time I was alone with him in the dark chamber.

Agitated and flushed she turned round.

The agitated voice came from behind her, jarring her.

Yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and strangely softened but agitated expression on his face.

Natasha felt happy and agitated, but at once remembered that this would not do and that he had to be quiet.

The fractions are agitated with strong sulphuric acid, and then washed with a caustic soda solution.

But all the same that night Natasha, now agitated and now frightened, lay a long time in her mother's bed gazing straight before her.

He sat on his elevation--the pedestal of the cannon--still agitated as before by the thought of the Emperor and by his love for him.

At that party Natasha again met Anatole, and Sonya noticed that she spoke to him, trying not to be overheard, and that all through dinner she was more agitated than ever.

When she wanted to be agitated, Nicholas and his health would be the pretext, and when she felt a need to speak spitefully, the pretext would be Countess Mary.

The conflict of magnanimity between the mother and the daughter, ending in the mother's sacrificing herself and offering her daughter in marriage to her lover, even now agitated the captain, though it was the memory of a distant past.

Kutuzov suddenly cried in an agitated voice, evidently picturing vividly to himself from Prince Andrew's story the condition Russia was in.

She was still too agitated by the encounter to be able to talk of the affair calmly.

His air was beyond agitated.

She crossed her arms, agitated.

I could tell from Brennan's voice he was agitated.

They reached her room, and she threw down her shower things on the bed, agitated.

She rubbed her neck, agitated.

Her eyes were rimmed with red, and her aura was beyond agitated.

He won't forsake his duty, she said and rose, agitated.

I'm interested— She ignored him and slammed the door behind her, returning to her room, angry and agitated.

Sofia watched her take a bite of a muffin, at once longing and agitated.

He withdrew, and she noticed he was agitated.

He tried to tell himself this was why he was agitated.

The East was then agitated by the advance of the Parthian Empire under the Sassanidae, and the Palmyrenes, in spite of their Roman honours and their Roman civilization, which did not really go much below the surface, were by no means prepared to commit themselves altogether to the Roman side.'

Another class which, seeing itself in danger from the economic changes in society, agitated for special legislation was the small retail traders of the large towns.

The waters of the Nyanza, violently agitated, were foaming like the billows of a sea.

She felt agitated and tormented, and the cause of this was Kuragin whom she could not help watching.

Elderly people who cannot speak at all, or cannot speak clearly, may become agitated because they are trying to tell you what is going on, but can't get the words out.

Deidre noticed the circles under her eyes, and her air was agitated.

In general Grattan supported the government for time after 1782, and in particular spoke and voted for the stringent coercive legislation rendered necessary by the Whiteboy outrages in 1785; but as the years passed without Pitt's personal favour towards parliamentary reform bearing fruit in legislation, he gravitated towards the opposition, agitated for commutation of tithes in Ireland, and supported the Whigs on the regency question in 1788.

At the death of the Jacobite patriarch Cyriacus in 817, the church was agitated by a dispute about the use of the phrase "heavenly bread" in connexion with the Eucharist.

For ten years from this date the relations of sultan and pasha remained in the forefront of the questions which agitated the diplomatic world.

The question of pluralities began to be agitated in 1813, and gave rise to a long struggle, in which Dr Thomas Chalmers took a notable part, and which terminated in the regulation that a university chair or principalship should not be held along with a parish which was not close to the university seat.

Its charge of from 8 to 12 tons of ore or concentrates is slowly agitated at a rate of three revolutions a minute, and in from 24 to 36 hours it is reduced from say 40 or 35% 'to' 7% of sulphur.

The M`Dougall furnace is turret-shaped, and consists of a series of circular hearths, on which the ore is agitated by rakes attached to revolving arms and made to fall from hearth to hearth.

Soon after the restoration of peace between England and the United States by the treaty of Ghent (1814), there arose the so-called "Oregon question" or "North-western boundary dispute," which agitated both countries for more than a generation and almost led to another war.

Towards the close of 1885 the French-Canadian mind was greatly agitated over the execution of Louis Riel, leader of the north-west rebellion, and in consequence of the attitude of Mercier on this question the Liberal minority in the Legislative Assembly, which had been reduced to fifteen, rapidly gained strength, until at the general elections held in October 1886 the province was carried in the Liberal interest.

Hence the bruised seed is, of ter leaving the fiveroller mill, generally warmed at once in a steam-jacketed kettle fitted with a mixing gear, by passing steam into the jacket, and sending at the same time some steam through a rose, fixed inside the kettle, into the mass while it is being agitated.

Both these vessels are mounted on a rocking base, so that the acid can be thoroughly agitated while the machine is being worked.

To produce clear ice the water must be agitated during the freezing process, or previously boiled to get rid of the air.

For cell ice ordinary water is used, agitated during freezing.

He glanced down at the bullet holes and splashes of blood in his chest, agitated at having to change clothes so early in the day.

Dusty studied the scenes on the screens of his command center, agitated by the weather hindering their ability to deal with Talon's vamps.

While the Grey God appeared calm, his air was agitated and his gaze stormy.

I'm interested— She ignored him and slammed the door behind her, returning to her room, angry and agitated.

Agitated, she bit her thumb.