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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
agitated
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ When her daughter didn't arrive, she became increasingly agitated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And then, later on in the evening, he began to get agitated as the presentation neared.
▪ Do you feel the person is especially silent, agitated or tense?
▪ George did not want to go home in an agitated condition.
▪ On this particular morning he found Dotty in a somewhat agitated mood.
▪ The mixture is then heated in the agitated vessel.
▪ When turned or given other nursing care, his limited movements became agitated.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
agitated

agitated \agitated\ adj.

  1. troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of unagitated. agitated parents

    Note: Narrower terms are: demoniac, demoniacal ; distraught, overwrought; {disturbed, jolted, shaken; feverish, hectic; frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied; psychedelic ; {rampageous, raging, frenzied ; {wild-eyed . Also See: discomposed, excited, impatient, tense, unquiet, unsteady.

  2. 1 throwing oneself from side to side.

    Syn: tossing

  3. physically disturbed or set in motion; as, the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled. Opposite of {unagitated and left alone, allowed to stand.

    Note: [Narrower terms are: churning, churned-up, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent ; {stirred.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
agitated

1610s, "set in motion," past participle adjective from agitate (v.). Meaning "disturbed" is from 1650s; that of "disturbed in mind" is from 1756. Meaning "kept constantly in public view" is from 1640s.

Wiktionary
agitated

vb. (en-past of: agitate)

WordNet
agitated
  1. adj. troubled emotionally and usually deeply; "agitated parents" [ant: unagitated]

  2. physically disturbed or set in motion; "the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled" [ant: unagitated]

  3. thrown from side to side; "a tossing ship" [syn: tossing]

Usage examples of "agitated".

As I state in my affidavit, he became very agitated, grabbed me by the throat, threw me to the ground, kicked me several times.

Then, for the first time, the Agrarian law was proposed, which even down to our own recollection was never agitated without the greatest commotions in the state.

In examining the first attention, the new seers realized that all organic beings, except man, quiet down their agitated trapped emanations so that those emanations can align themselves with their matching ones outside.

He saw the way Azar wove her fingers together tightly and wondered what agitated her so about his story.

Jack Bedell was possibly the only person on board the Corianis who really tried to make sense of the agitated words from the public-address system.

In any event his fingers danced around his hands like agitated medusae and the translator chirped and whined and burbled in an increasing tempo with fewer and fewer intelligible words.

Adrina watched Emel and the riders around her grow agitated at the show of force.

In all the great questions which have agitated the country, and particularly in those fearful crises, the Missouri question, the nullification question, and the late slavery question, as connected with the newly acquired territory, involving and endangering the stability of the Union, his has been the leading and most conspicuous part.

Thrown in the air by some unknown power, he rose ten feet above the surface of the lake, fell again into the midst of the agitated waters, and then soon gained the shore, without any severe wounds, miraculously saved.

Bayelle issued orders, and the fiacre set off for the Par abeam Viomente Street was alive with agitated humanity, gathered in restless knots and clumps, aware of disturbance, but ignorant as yet of the cause.

The Gangrel had seemed agitated, constantly pausing to scrape at the earth or sniff the air.

There sat Benedict with what he persuaded himself was some new African hexapod perched upon his head, and agitated by doubts as to the direction in which it would move.

The cops turned around and clapped, and the hoagie line burst into applause, becoming agitated now, anticipating the fireworks, wanting to get their sandwich and hurry back to their blankets.

General Beh bin Adee and his lieutenant Mep Ahoo, the ominous Suma IV, an agitated Retrograde Sinopessen, and half a dozen other moravec integrators and military rockvecs.

Monsieur Joly had been by the pharmacy to complain about not having seen his wife and asked for your address, which the owner did not dare give him, because of his agitated state.