agitated

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verb

past tense of agitate
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as in stirred
to cause (as a liquid) to move about in a circle especially repeatedly this room could use a ceiling fan to agitate the stuffy air a bit

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Recent Examples of agitated
Adjective
The police also urged keeping the door locked and calling 911 if the worker becomes agitated. Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2024 That’s why, in the final minutes of the team’s home finale last month, agitated fans at Soldier Field serenaded McCaskey and his family with an impassioned request. Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2025 In the middle of the party, an accordion player jigged among a group of young, unsteady revelers, rapping to the beat like an agitated auctioneer. Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2025 Her agitated forms do for computers what 19th-century spirit photography did for the camera, at once exploiting a new technology and highlighting its artifice, conjuring the ghost in the machine. Glenn Adamson, ARTnews.com, 16 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for agitated 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agitated
Adjective
  • If the big names in the Big Easy aren’t reason enough to get excited for Super Bowl LIX, there is no shortage of storylines that make this year’s championship bout between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles especially compelling.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Nervous, yet excited, the 25-year-old filmed the reaction of the two most important men in her life, her dad and her boyfriend.
    Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Thirty minutes later, the Sun reported, medics still had not tended to a distraught woman half-buried by the shattered stands, groaning, with both legs apparently broken.
    Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Viel found a distraught Pasadena woman who saw flames approaching a coop that housed pet chickens and ducks behind her home on Altadena Drive.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • This move has stirred controversy and concern amongst community leaders in New Orleans, a city with a historically high homicide rate.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The presence of these encampments stirred a debate about free speech — and what universities should and should not permit on campuses — that continued in our section well after students went home for the summer.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 30 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Richard Arnold, the chief executive whose departure had already been announced, went round the room and shook everyone’s hand, expressing his belief the future at United would be bright.
    Adam Crafton, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The camera then cut to Johansson, who shook her head while grimacing.
    Toria Sheffield, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Yes, Rupert Murdoch lost an epic courtroom battle with his kids over his media empire (during which actual Succession plot lines were discussed), but the Fox News mogul also suffered a rare defeat in TV news.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Victories like the one over Manchester City – a performance discussed at length in this previous column – have been all too rare, with the team picking up too many draws and too many injuries.
    Adam Digby, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Each offer multiple dining options, robust spa services, and heated pools.
    Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Outdoors, a heated in-ground swimming pool, a lounge area, and a barbecue station are positioned around a landscaped lot that’s just shy of an acre.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Economic data users like Algernon Austin, director for race and economic justice at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a left-leaning think tank, are worried about what changes may be coming to the sample size for the Current Population Survey, which produces the monthly employment data.
    Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 24 Jan. 2025
  • A number of men and women on Mitchell’s team were worried about their health and safety, the lawsuit says, so Mitchell raised the issue during the training sessions.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Plants with vining stems or long tap roots can be difficult to transplant and other plants simply don’t like to have their roots disturbed after planting.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The relationship quickly unearthed something that disturbed him.
    Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2025

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