Alarm agitates the feelings; terror disorders the understanding and affects the will; fright seizes on and confuses the sense; consternation takes possession of the soul, and subdues its faculties.
To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
Moreover, it has long been remarked that the presence of a free negro vaguely agitates the minds of his less fortunate brethren, and conveys to them a dim notion of their rights.
The head shall be the mass; the heart, the fiery spirit that fills, informs andagitates the whole.
It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
If it be inquired, whence proceeds the motion that agitates matter?
The arts there seem but the peaceful spectators of nature; and genius itself, which agitates a northern breast, there appears but one harmony the more.
Such are the effects of the slow but regular motion which agitates the waters of the Atlantic.
The incident agitates him a little; but he is soon calm again, and for some time after sits silent; in no dreamy reverie, but actively cogitating, though not of it or her.
More like one entering to announce a death, or some event which greatly agitates him.
Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
Elizabeth observed my agitation for some time in timid and fearful silence; at length she said, "What is it that agitates you, my dear Victor?
But a darkening of storm fills and agitatesthe sky, and suddenly clothes the morning with a look of evening.
I have put my arm round her waist, and I am shaken by the sorrow which agitates her chest and throat, and sometimes shakes her rudely, the sorrow which does not belong to me, which belongs to no one, and is like a divinity.
But the vision of the future agitates me with a sort of despair and with a holy thrill of anger.
When it reaches the lowest place it remains there calm and motionless, at least without some foreign causes which agitates and disturbs it.
This is what produces the flux, or high tide, which is more or less sensible on different coasts, and which agitates the sea not only at its surface but even to the greatest depths.
I fear lest, wearied by a semblance of devotion, which cannot but constrain him to put on, he should resume the rights of power; and this fear agitates me without ceasing, making of my life but one long torment.
Student; "what wonderful emotion agitates you thus, and chains your willing tongue?
I yield with pleasure," replied the Demon, "to the wrath which agitates your breast.
To separate this iodide from the remaining iron filings, he agitates the whole with water, and decants the liquor.
The cold horror that seizes on the man who is about to commit some crime, or who has just committed one, is nothing else than the horror which agitates the feverish man, and which is felt on taking nauseous medicines.
Thy great renown, which agitates the world, Which makes thy name the theme of every tongue, Hath in our quiet village wakened us, And led us hither to this festival.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "agitates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
