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agitation
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of agitate, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion. 2 A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE great ▪ The sheriff has said he was in great agitation . ▪ Arriving there, Joe found Soong in a state of great agitation and impatience. ▪ Two issues produced a great deal of agitation in the country. ▪ The capital ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Agitation \Ag`i*ta"tion\, n. [L. agitatio: cf. F. agitation.] The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation. A stirring up or ...
Usage examples of agitation.
The pious Agaric organised public meetings so as to keep up the agitation.
But it is a little silly for an agitator to cry thief when the success of his agitation has led to the adoption of his ideas.
Hair that was turned up at the ends of it into little curls by the wind fell all about him--over his eyes, spreading into an American sharp-pointed beard under his chin, making his legs like the legs of an Eskimo, waving in frantic agitation all round his stump of a tail.
The dismal holding area imprisoned at least fifty beingsall different, most having not the slightest resemblance to anything humanresting apathetically or moving about in frenetic agitation.
The start was followed by a shout, which passed swiftly along the canal, and an eager agitation of heads that went from balcony to balcony, till the sympathetic movement was communicated to the grave load under which the Bucentaur labored.
Newt, appearing and disappearing rapidly in his agitation, buzzed around the fissure.
Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
Under the operation of this policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased but has constantly augmented.
Under the operation of the policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
Yet under the operation of that policy this agitation has not only not ceased, but it has been constantly augmented.
Although she stood erect and utterly still, with her face calm and imperturbable, inwardly Centaine was seething with agitation, and Dandy Lass picked it up from her.
Rupert and the twins, with Choc bustling behind them like a nursemaid, all petticoats and agitation, dashed through the legs of the company shouting.
Caffeine, we now know, can bring with it, in sufficient quantity, restlessness, nervousness, excitement, insomnia, flushed face, diuresis, gastrointestinal disturbance, muscle twitching, rambling flow of thought and speech, tachycardia or cardiac arrhythmia, periods of inexhaustibility, psychomotor agitation, and several other of the well-known conditions of our accelerated times.