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US
/ˈædʒəˌteɪtɪd/
]
[ UK /ˈædʒɪtˌeɪtɪd/ ]
[ UK /ˈædʒɪtˌeɪtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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troubled emotionally and usually deeply
agitated parents -
physically disturbed or set in motion
the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled
How To Use agitated 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- His expression agitated me so that I unconsciously rose to my feet and warned him off with my fan; but he seemed rooted to the spot. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
- The doctor becalmed the agitated patient.