agitate
verb (used with object)
to move or force into violent, irregular action.
is agitating
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present progressiveof agitate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Maybe the younger son is agitating his brother more than you realized.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2022
“Football allows us to put immigration on stage, a question that is agitating European countries right now,” said Yvan Gastaut, a University of Nice historian who curated an exhibit on soccer and migration.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 10, 2018
If the very description of White’s jagged juxtapositions is agitating, their effect in the film is all the more energizing.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017
A rebel army called the M23 is agitating again in the east, along with several dozen other rebel groups.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2017
“If these gentlemen cannot be made to confine themselves to the subject that is agitating this body, I move we call in the authorities and have them confined in the bottomless pit.”
From The Pursuit of the House-Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. by John Kendrick Bangs
