Sample Sentences for
agitate
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    I tried to hide my growing agitation.
    agitation = emotional unrest
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    "But my heart is agitated," the boy said.  (source)
    agitated = disturbed
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    "But who'd shoot Papa?" asked Little Man, greatly agitated.  (source)
    agitated = upset
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    The boy got so agitated that Roy hadn't argued.  (source)
    agitated = upset
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    They both arrived in a state of agitation on Himmel Street.  (source)
    agitation = anxiety (nervousness and worry)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    They kept at it for a while, Peewee agitating until I felt that for him it was just some kind of sport. Find somebody big and mean-looking to mess with and then push your luck.  (source)
    agitating = stirring up
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    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.  (source)
    agitate = stir up (public demand)
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    In the midst of all the agitations of party, I have heretofore stood by thatsacred instrument.†  (source)
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    Anger agitates, while whistling melts a bee's temper.  (source)
    agitates = upsets
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    Under the stars of the blue summer night he walked agitatedly across the yard to the gate under the poplars.  (source)
    agitatedly = without calmness
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    As I started back for my own tent, I could hear him speaking again, in a calm, unagitated tone, the same way he had spoken to the one of them who had hidden beneath the house.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unagitated means not and reverses the meaning of agitated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Monique was the one who looked agitated—and overdressed.  (source)
    agitated = not calm
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    And I suspect we had a similar intensity, a similar heedlessness, a similar agitation of the soul.  (source)
    agitation = stirring up
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