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• v  try to stir up public opinion
• v  cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
• v  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
• v  move very slightly
• v  move or cause to move back and forth
• v  change the arrangement or position of
• a  troubled emotionally and usually deeply
  agitated parents
• a  physically disturbed or set in motion
  the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled

• No one seemed to hear the PA system's agitated plea: "Belay that last order!" Meanwhile, the bridge pirates headed for the officers' quarters.
• But the 22-year-old Albert, as roguishly independent in his personal life as he would be in his science, brushed off Mutti's agitated words and continued the romance.
• What gets Putin agitatedand he was frequently agitated during our talkis his perception that Americans are out to interfere in Russia's affairs.

• agitate
• foment
• stir up
• rouse
• turn on
• charge
• commove
• excite
• charge up
• crusade
• fight
• press
• campaign
• push
• stir
• shift
• budge
• shake
• vex
• disturb
• shake up
• raise up

• calm
• unagitated

News & Articles

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• Week in Review: Waiting to Be King of Goldman
  In the glow of television, many messages. | The stimulus comment that agitated traders. | To billionaire’s failed deal, add rebuke from S.E.C. | Trader covets Goldman office where a friend is sitting tight. | In a shift, interest rates are rising.
  June 14, 2013 - New York Times
• Worst-case scenario
  MICHIGAN CITY — A man, wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans, orange safety suit and carrying a green bag, walked into the ambulance garage at Franciscan St. Anthony Health – Michigan City. He appeared agitated and spoke with a Russian accent. He was nervous, because he hasn’t seen his wife and kids and didn’t know what to do.
  June 14, 2013 - The Michigan City News-Dispatch
• 'Agitated' Alligator Apprehended at East Bibb Home
  A 12-foot, "chunky" alligator is becoming "increasingly agitated" at a residence in East Bibb County.
  June 11, 2013 - 13 WMAZ Macon

Quotes

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• Walter Hickel in FOXNews
  He jumped from his chair, very hurried and agitated,Hickel recalled.
• Rubens Barrichello in The Sun
  Barrichello said: "Felipe was very agitated. He had a cut in his head, which could have been from the part of my car that was on the track."
• Nicolas Sarkozy in Denver Post
  French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Pinter a "great playwright and lucid, agitated and uncompromising humanist."