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Definition
to stir up — emotionally (such as anxiety) or physically (such as shaking)- Our goal is to agitate public unrest, so there will be a cry for change.
agitate = stir up (create or increase emotional unrest)
- She gets agitated whenever the topic comes up.
- I tried to hide my growing agitation.
- The washing machine cleans by agitating.
- In spite of his apparent outward composure, he was evidently in a state of great mental agitation.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
- From the time that Garrison, Lovejoy, and others began to agitate for freedom, the slaves throughout the South kept in close touch with the progress of the movement.Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
- For a week Martin's life had all the regularity of an escaped soldier in the enemy's country, with the same agitationSinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
- Eddie was so white, when he got agitated, little rosebuds bloomed on his face, then closed again like tiny fists.Victor Martinez -- Parrot in the Oven
- Every moment rather brought fresh agitation.Jane Austen -- Persuasion
- The agitation with which he spoke again was not quite unmixed with anger.George Eliot -- Silas Marner
- It took them days to get the story properly blown up and themselves agitated and then to calm down and assess the situation.Toni Morrison -- Beloved
- PISCHIN. [Agitated] What? Why to town?Anton Chekhov -- The Cherry Orchard
- Under the stars of the blue summer night he walked agitatedly across the yard to the gate under the poplars.Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables
- Uncle Shepsel became more and more agitated.Jerry Spinelli -- Milkweed
- ...she had passed a night of extreme unrest, a night agitated above all by fears that...Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw
- More than once the agitation into which these reflections threw me made my friends dread a dangerous relapse.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- Fanny was all agitation and flutter; all hope and apprehension.Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
- Never had she felt so agitated, mortified, grieved, at any circumstance in her life.Jane Austen -- Emma
- She starts looking agitatedly around the garden as though expecting him to jump out from behind a bush.Sophie Kinsella -- Confessoins of a Shopaholic
- Monique was the one who looked agitated—and overdressed.Sharon M. Draper -- Forged by Fire
agitated = disturbed (emotionally shaken)
agitation = a non-calm feeling
agitate = stir up (public demand)
agitation = anxiety (nervousness and worry)
agitated = emotionally upset (stirred up)
agitation = emotional unrest
agitation = emotional unrest
agitated = stirred up (excited)
agitated = emotionally upset
agitatedly = without calmness
agitated = upset
agitated = disturbed
agitation = anxiety
agitation = emotional unrest
agitated = emotionally upset (without composure)
agitatedly = without calmness
agitated = not calm