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词汇 agitating
释义 agitating
present participle ofagitate
agitate
verb
uk /ˈædʒ.ɪ.teɪt/ us /ˈædʒ.ə.teɪt/

agitateverb (WORRY)


[ T ]
to make someone feel worried or angry: 使焦虑;使躁动不安
I didn't want to agitate her by telling her.我不想告诉她,免得她焦虑。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing anxiety and worry
agitate
alarming
alarmingly
bite
catch up with someone
come back to bite someoneidiom
disturb
frighten
frighten someone/something away/off
get/go beyond a jokeidiom
give someone the jimjamsidiom
give someone the jittersidiom
oppressive
rattle
roost
stressful
stressfully
suspenseful
suspensefully
suspensive

agitateverb (ARGUE)


[ I ]
to argue forcefully, especially in public, in order to achieve a particular type of change: (尤指公开)煽动,鼓动,大声疾呼
The unions continue to agitate for higher pay.工会继续大声疾呼要求加薪。
As a young man, he had agitated against the Vietnam war.他年轻时曾公开反对越南战争。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Arguing & disagreeing
agent provocateur
aggressor
alienate
alienated
argue with someone
argumentatively
bone
conflict
differ
flame
hammer
lock hornsidiom
non-circular
non-consensual
pick
piggy in the middle
provocateur
quibble
says who?idiom
the fur fliesidiom

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Activism & pressure groups

agitateverb (SHAKE)


[ T ] chemistry specialized
to shake a liquid: 摇动;搅动
Pour the powder into the solution and agitate it until the powder has dissolved.将粉末倒入溶液中,搅动到溶解为止。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Shaking, swinging and vibrating
brandish
earth-shaking
flappy
flourish
fluff
fluff something up
reverberation
reverberative
ripple
rock-a-bye
shake out
shakily
shiver
sway
thrash
trembly
tremulously
vibrate
vibration
vibratory

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agitated

Examples of agitating


agitating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Agitating for language policy justified on a basis of national security are powerful forces in the military, government, and industry.
The dye solution was added slowly while agitating the cell suspension on a shaker to avoid overstaining.
And agitating against bilingual education are monied entrepreneurs.
A relationship can be simply obtained by relating q* to the agitating forces which act on sediment grains.
That assertiveness and their organising and agitating might have become the basis for a (liberal-) democratic political culture, given different circumstances.
I wilfully subdued any ideological opposition that might be welling up in my breast or agitating my brain.
Second were associations that were focused on agitating and struggling for democracy and accountability.
Former soldiers were conspicuous in politics, both in the sense of active participation in movements in civil society agitating for political goals, and in direct electoral politics.
In agitating for changes to the law, however, she continued to uphold protection as the goal and the criterion against which existing laws could be judged.
In contrast, the fundamental question agitating philosophy was that of the importance of psychology for a philosophy of mind, not the question of the importance of biology.
I am bound to admit that the forces are not agitating for more.
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That is a point which is agitating the minds of quite a number.
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It involved practically the whole of the questions, save one, which were at that time agitating the police.
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We have to do something about the control of profits in industry, because that is a matter which is agitating the minds of the workers.
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That is what is agitating them; they fear there is something between us.
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