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Definition of Agitated

1. Adjective. Troubled emotionally and usually deeply. "Agitated parents"

2. Adjective. Physically disturbed or set in motion. "The agitated mixture foamed and bubbled"

Definition of Agitated

1. Verb. (past of agitate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Agitated

1. agitate [v] - See also: agitate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Agitated

agistator agistators agisted agister agisters agisting agistment agistments agistor agistors

agists agita agitable agitas agitate agitated (current term) agitated depression agitatedly agitates agitating

agitation agitational agitations agitative agitato agitator agitators agitatos agitatrices agitatrix

Literary usage of Agitated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lancet (1842)
"... the face a great deal agitated (the mouth and sometimes the eyelid) ; the muscles of the left eye acted strongly, drawing the eye into the inner canthus ..."

2. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"... or to those of drapery agitated by the wind. The rustling noise accompanying the ex- FIGS. 8, g, IQ.—Coronas and luminous arcs. periments is analogous ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"... but in the weak and disorderly government of the middle ages, it was agitated by the present evil of the disbanded armies. Too idle to work, ..."

4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"It is well in these agitated modern days to be able to point to one perfectly balanced nature, in whose life, whose letters, and whose music alike, ..."

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