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Definition of Agitating
1. Adjective. Causing or tending to cause anger or resentment. "A provoking delay at the airport"
Definition of Agitating
1. Verb. (present participle of agitate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Agitating
1. agitate [v] - See also: agitate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agitating
Literary usage of Agitating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor (1911)
"Is not the realization of results such as these of far more importance than the
solution of most of the problems which are now agitating both the English ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"He argued in favour of subordinating purely religious questions to those of
national importance ; and in after years, when agitating for the repeal of the ..."
3. Cements, Limes, and Plasters: Their Materials, Manufacture, and Properties by Edwin Clarence Eckel (1905)
"Three different methods of agitating are in use at various marl-plants: 1.
A vertical central shaft equipped with long arms or paddles; 2. ..."
4. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1854)
"... it avoids the discussion of this agitating question on the one hand, and, on
the other, it pays a due respect to the right of the constituent to ..."
5. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"Every settler at once became a determined whig. On the great question then
agitating the British Colonies, there was but one opinion in the West ..."
6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"The vertical agitating shaft is sus- FIG. 4. O, l)o. do. do. Ü, Compressed-air pipe.
two propeller agitators. The internal cooling pended from the lid on ..."
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