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agitated

[ aj-i-tey-tid ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

“He turned pale, trembled to a great degree, was much agitated, and began to cry,” she told the court.

He refused to dine with people, because he did not like being agitated during meal times.

The meeting wound down shortly afterward but not before an agitated President Reagan warned once more against leaks.

At first, the doctors write, the villagers were “fearful and agitated,” lacking the basic necessities needed to survive.

But even without help from a restless tectonic plate, folks in the Napa Valley get easily agitated.

Every word that now fell from the agitated Empress was balm to the affrighted nerves of her daughter.

The old man seemed to be greatly agitated, and hurriedly whispering, "We thought you were never coming, sir!"

When he had finished, she took them from his hand, and turning them round in agitated silence, examined their seals and writing.

Still, Louis did not reply; but proofs of his contending soul convulsed the features his agitated hand tried to conceal.

He was absorbed in the agitated present, and dared not look an inch away from it.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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