All 11 Uses of
agitate
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- She was frightened as well as agitated at his vehemence.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- He continued in a more agitated voice:— "My opinion is (since you ask it) that you are greatly to blame for playing pranks upon a man like Mr. Boldwood, merely as a pastime.†
Chpt 19-21
- Bathsheba was brimming with agitated bewilderment, and she said, in half-suspicious accents of feeling, "Can it be!†
Chpt 25-27
- At once she heard, not ten yards off, a voice that was beginning to have a strange power in agitating her.†
Chpt 25-27
- She had tried to elude agitation by fixing her mind on the trees, sky, any trivial object before her eyes, whilst his reproaches fell, but ingenuity could not save her now.†
Chpt 31-33
- He was rather agitated.†
Chpt 37-39
- The contrast of the picture with her rebellious and agitated existence at this same time was too much for her to bear to look upon longer.†
Chpt 43-45
- It was so evident to her in the midst of her agitation that Troy had undressed in the full conviction of dressing again almost immediately, that the notion that anything but death could have prevented him was a perverse one to entertain.†
Chpt 46-48
- I am foolishly agitated—I cannot tell why.†
Chpt 52-54
- The trimmings of her dress, as they quivered against the light, showed how agitated she was, and at last she burst out crying.†
Chpt 52-54
- On examining her heart it appeared beyond measure strange that the subject of which the season might have been supposed suggestive—the event in the hall at Boldwood's—was not agitating her at all; but instead, an agonizing conviction that everybody abjured her—for what she could not tell—and that Oak was the ringleader of the recusants.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(agitate) to stir up or shake -- emotionally (as when people are angered or upset) or physically (as when a washing machine cleans clothes)