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Adjective: agitated  'a-ji,tey-tid
  1. Troubled emotionally and usually deeply
    "agitated parents"
     
  2. Physically disturbed or set in motion
    "the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled"
Verb: agitate  'a-ji,teyt
  1. Try to stir up public opinion
    - foment, stir up
     
  2. Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
    - rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up
     
  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
    "She is agitating for women's rights";
    - crusade, fight, press, campaign, push
     
  4. Move very slightly
    "He agitated in his seat";
    - stir, shift, budge, scooch [informal]
     
  5. Move or cause to move back and forth
    "The chemist agitated the flask vigorously";
    - shake
     
  6. Change the arrangement or position of
    - vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up

See also: amok, amuck, aroused, berserk, churned-up, churning, discomposed, distraught, emotional, excited, feverish, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, hectic, hysterical, impatient, jolted, overwrought, phrenetic, psychedelic, rippled, roiled, roiling, roily [N. Amer], ruffled, seething, shaken, stirred, tense, turbulent, turnt, unquiet, unsteady, wild-eyed, worked up, wrought-up

Type of: advertise, advertize [US, non-standard], displace, disturb, flack [N. Amer, informal], move, promote, provoke, push, stimulate, trouble, upset

Antonym: calm down, unagitated

Encyclopedia: Agitated

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