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uk/ˈædʒ.ɪ.teɪt/us/ˈædʒ.ə.teɪt/agitate verb (WORRY)
[ T ] to make someone feel worried or angry:
I didn't want to agitate her by telling her.
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Causing anxiety and worry
- alarming
- bite
- catch up with sb
- come back to bite sb idiom
- come back/home to roost idiom
- flap
- frighten sb/sth away/off
- get/go beyond a joke idiom
- give sb the jitters idiom
- gnaw
- harass
- joke
- suspenseful
- sweat
- tense
- troubling
- unnerve
- unsettling
- weigh
- weigh on sb/sth
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agitate verb (ARGUE)
[ I ] to argue forcefully, especially in public, in order to achieve a particular type of change:
The unions continue to agitate for higher pay.
As a young man, he had agitated against the Vietnam war.
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Arguing & disagreeing
- afoul
- beg
- bet
- bicker
- cat
- conflicting
- contestation
- contrarian
- exchange words idiom
- gherao
- have a bone to pick with sb idiom
- lock
- make a case for sth idiom
- mano a mano
- row 1
- slang
- spar
- split
- variance
- wrangle
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Activism & pressure groups
agitate verb (SHAKE)
[ T ] specialized chemistry to shake a liquid:
Pour the powder into the solution and agitate it until the powder has dissolved.
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Shaking, swinging and vibrating
- brandish
- churn
- flourish
- fluff sth up
- flutter
- jitter
- joggle
- resonate
- reverberate
- rocky
- shake
- stir sth up
- swing
- teeter
- throb
- totter
- tremble
- tremulous
- wag
- worry
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agitated
adjective uk/ˈædʒ.ɪ.teɪ.tɪd/us/ˈædʒ.ə.teɪ.t̬ɪd/
She became very agitated (= anxious) when her son failed to return home.