All 9 Uses
agitate
in
The Turn of the Screw
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- Lessons, in this agitation, certainly suffered some delay; I reflected that my first duty was, by the gentlest arts I could contrive, to win the child into the sense of knowing me.†
Chpt Allagitation = the act of stirring up (emotionally or physically); or a state of emotional unrest
- Agitation, in the interval, certainly had held me and driven me, for I must, in circling about the place, have walked three miles; but I was to be, later on, so much more overwhelmed that this mere dawn of alarm was a comparatively human chill.†
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- To gaze into the depths of blue of the child's eyes and pronounce their loveliness a trick of premature cunning was to be guilty of a cynicism in preference to which I naturally preferred to abjure my judgment and, so far as might be, my agitation.†
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- One evening—with nothing to lead up or to prepare it—I felt the cold touch of the impression that had breathed on me the night of my arrival and which, much lighter then, as I have mentioned, I should probably have made little of in memory had my subsequent sojourn been less agitated.†
Chpt Allagitated = not calm; or stirred up (often emotionally)
- I dashed at the place in which I had left her lying and over which (for the small silk counterpane and the sheets were disarranged) the white curtains had been deceivingly pulled forward; then my step, to my unutterable relief, produced an answering sound: I perceived an agitation of the window blind, and the child, ducking down, emerged rosily from the other side of it.†
Chpt Allagitation = the act of stirring up (emotionally or physically); or a state of emotional unrest
- It was a pitiful surrender to agitation, but my being aware of this had somehow no power to restore me.†
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- My acquaintance with sheets of water was small, and the pool of Bly, at all events on the few occasions of my consenting, under the protection of my pupils, to affront its surface in the old flat-bottomed boat moored there for our use, had impressed me both with its extent and its agitation.†
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- The revelation then of the manner in which Flora was affected startled me, in truth, far more than it would have done to find her also merely agitated, for direct dismay was of course not what I had expected.†
Chpt Allagitated = not calm; or stirred up (often emotionally)
- ...she had passed a night of extreme unrest, a night agitated above all by fears that...
Chpt All *agitated = disturbed
Definitions:
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(1)
(agitate) to stir up or shake -- emotionally (as when people are angered or upset) or physically (as when a washing machine cleans clothes)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)