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Agitated

adjective

1.

Troubled emotionally and usually deeply.

2.

Physically disturbed or set in motion.

Agitate

verb

(past & past part. agitated; pres. part. agitating)

1.

Try to stir up public opinion. Synonyms: foment, stir up.

2.

Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused. Synonyms: charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on.

3.

Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for. Synonyms: campaign, crusade, fight, press, push. "She is crusading for women's rights" , "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate"

4.

Move very slightly. Synonyms: budge, shift, stir.

5.

Move or cause to move back and forth. Synonym: shake. "My hands were shaking"

6.

Change the arrangement or position of. Synonyms: commove, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex.

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... were lost in a cloud of flying sand and spray, through which could be heard a prodigious splash. When it had cleared, they found themselves alone on the beach. The only sign of the Sea Monster was a great furrow in the sand, which led down to the agitated water. ...

— David and the Phoenix • Edward Ormondroyd

... that I was agitated; but I was also somewhat skeptical as to the truth of Lord Malden's assertion. I returned a formal and a doubtful answer, and his lordship ...

— Beaux and Belles of England • Mary Robinson

... about this reception. It was said, that to make a distinction between sovereign of a petty state and that of the superb kingdom of France, it was requisite that the former should await for some time the audience which the latter accorded. I am sure that when the peace with Frederick was agitated, the face of Louis XV was not more grave and serious than during this puerile debate about etiquette. The duc de Choiseul, who had the control of foreign affairs, was in the apartment to receive his Danish majesty, with his colleagues, the duc de Praslin, the comte de Saint-Florentin ...

— "Written by Herself" • Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon

... this particular afternoon Anneli opened the door, in answer to a summons, and found outside a club commissionaire whom she had seen once or twice before; and when he gave her a letter, addressed in a handwriting which she recognized, and ask for an answer, she was as much agitated as if it had come from her own sweetheart in Gorlitz. She snatched it from the man, as if she feared he would take it back. She flew with it up-stairs, breathless. She forgot to knock ...

— Sunrise • William Black

... made his way up through the little mob of terrified children. He found Mrs. Grout vastly agitated and much ashamed of herself. She did not wish to look sentimental. She had reached the Indian-summer modesty of old ...

— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes

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