All 9 Uses

agitate
in
The Rainbow Trail
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Then a strange, slow-coming cold agitation possessed Shefford.†
Chpt 2 *

agitation = the act of stirring up (emotionally or physically); or a state of emotional unrest
Shefford rose, unable to conceal his agitation.†
Chpt 3
Perhaps, had he not been so agitated, he would not have answered to impulse.†
Chpt 4

agitated = not calm; or stirred up (often emotionally)
He had not divined the cause for such agitation.†
Chpt 6

agitation = the act of stirring up (emotionally or physically); or a state of emotional unrest
But her agitation was no longer strange to him.†
Chpt 6
Shefford, even in his agitation, felt the Mormon's silence to be a consent that need not have been asked.†
Chpt 15
Shefford experienced great difficulty in presenting to this mild Mormon a natural and unagitated front.†
Chpt 15

unagitated = calm

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.
Still, so strange was his agitation, so keen his suspense, that he needed confirmation of ear, of eye.†
Chpt 15

agitation = the act of stirring up (emotionally or physically); or a state of emotional unrest
One afternoon in May a group of people, strangely agitated, walked down a shady lane toward the meadow.†
Chpt 20

agitated = not calm; or stirred up (often emotionally)

Definitions:

(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)