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UK
/ˈædʒɪtˌeɪt/
]
[ US /ˈædʒəˌteɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈædʒəˌteɪt/ ]
VERB
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move very slightly
He shifted in his seat -
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 crusading for women's rights
The liberal party pushed for reforms
The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate - change the arrangement or position of
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move or cause to move back and forth
The chemist shook the flask vigorously
My hands were shaking - try to stir up public opinion
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cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks
How To Use agitate In A Sentence
- Overhead, a mewing cry announced the passing of a white-tailed sea eagle, which was being mobbed by agitated gulls.
- The limitations of the hegemonic strategy employed by Stuttgart were revealed beginning in 1796 when several Black Forest cantons agitated for reform to the ducal political system.
- A cement mixer agitates the cement until it is ready to pour.
- Initially, he was extremely agitated but had normal neurologic examination results.
- It should not be confused with night terrors or panics, in which a child becomes acutely agitated and terror-struck at night, appearing to be awake while in fact asleep and unable to be woken.
- Agitate for the freedoms of everyone to worship as they please.
- We were beset by swarms of agitated wasps.
- Crude clays are blunged, sieved and passed over rare earth magnets, then stored in constantly agitated farm tanks.
- Smith's style has an agitated energy that is nicely extended to the Chalfens, but it is rather unadaptable, or at least unadapted to the book's more nuanced characters, who are seen in the same constant light.
- In many other healing temples for agitated people physical restraints are used, but they are not used here.