All 5 Uses of
agitate
in
Hard Times
- Strange as it always is to consider any assembly in the act of submissively resigning itself to the dreariness of some complacent person, lord or commoner, whom three-fourths of it could, by no human means, raise out of the slough of inanity to their own intellectual level, it was particularly strange, and it was even particularly affecting, to see this crowd of earnest faces, whose honesty in the main no competent observer free from bias could doubt, so agitated by such a leader.†
Chpt 2.4
- She trembled, and was excessively agitated; getting behind Rachael, when Rachael tried to reassure her; and not seeming to know what she was about.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- He sat down at the side of the bed, tenderly asking how she was, and dwelling on the necessity of her keeping very quiet after her agitation and exposure to the weather last night.†
Chpt 3.1
- He was positively agitated.†
Chpt 3.2
- She arrived there in great agitation, and was insensible all through the night.†
Chpt 3.2
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)