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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
agitated
    adj 1: troubled emotionally and usually deeply; "agitated
           parents" [ant: unagitated]
    2: physically disturbed or set in motion; "the agitated mixture
       foamed and bubbled" [ant: unagitated]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
agitated \agitated\ adj.
   1. troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of
      unagitated. agitated parents

   Note: Narrower terms are: {demoniac, demoniacal ; distraught,
         overwrought; disturbed, jolted, shaken; feverish,
         hectic; frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied;
         {psychedelic ; {rampageous, raging, frenzied ;
         {wild-eyed . Also See: discomposed, excited, impatient,
         tense, unquiet, unsteady.
         [WordNet 1.5]

   2. 1 throwing oneself from side to side.

   Syn: tossing
        [WordNet 1.5]

   3. physically disturbed or set in motion; as, the agitated
      mixture foamed and bubbled. Opposite of unagitated and
      left alone, allowed to stand.

   Note: [Narrower terms are: {churning, churned-up, roiling,
         roiled, roily, turbulent ; stirred.]
         [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Agitate \Ag"i*tate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Agitated; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Agitating.] [L. agitatus, p. p. of agitare to put in
   motion, fr. agere to move: cf. F. agiter. See Act,
   Agent.]
   1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind
      agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . .
      . agitate the air." --Cowper.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To move or actuate. [R.] --Thomson.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was
      greatly agitated.
      [1913 Webster]

            The mind of man is agitated by various passions.
                                                  --Johnson.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a
      controversy hotly agitated. --Boyle.
      [1913 Webster]

   5. To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to
      contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians
      agitate desperate designs.
      [1913 Webster]

   Syn: To move; shake; excite; rouse; disturb; distract;
        revolve; discuss; debate; canvass.
        [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for agitated:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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