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agitated
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agitated
Verb
  • ∙ simple past tense and past participle of agitate
Adjective
  • ∙ Angry, annoyed, bothered or worked up.
  • ∙ Violently and chaotically moving around, such as because of being shaken. of a solution or substance
agitate
Verb
  • ∙ To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
  • ∙ To move or actuate. rare
  • ∙ To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
  • ∙ 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.