All 7 Uses of
agitate
in
The Golden Apples
- Yet in the shade of the vacant house, though all looked still, there was agitation.†
Story 2agitation = the act of stirring up (emotionally or physically); or a state of emotional unrest
- When the first unreasoning hush—there was the usual series—fell over the audience, the room seemed to shake with the agitation of palmetto and feather fans alone, plus the occasional involuntary tick of the metronome within its doors.†
Story 2
- There was the mixture together of agitation and decoration which could make every little forthcoming child turn pale with a kind of ultimate dizziness.†
Story 2
- She rose up, agitated now, and went running about the room, holding the candle above her, evading the men each time they tried to head her off.†
Story 2agitated = not calm; or stirred up (often emotionally)
- where the sun shone right on it the lake seemed to be in violent agitation, almost boiling.
Story 4 *agitation = disturbance (stirred up)
- She made the steps of the walk they had to watch, head, breasts, and hips in their helpless agitation, like a rope of bells she started in their ears.†
Story 7agitation = the act of stirring up (emotionally or physically); or a state of emotional unrest
- Memory dappled her like no more than a paler light, which in slight agitations came through leaves, not darkening her for more than an instant.†
Story 7
Definition:
to stir up or shake -- emotionally (as when people are angered or upset) or physically (as when a washing machine cleans clothes)