Thesaurus / agitation
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
In the 1970s and 1980s, Punjabi Sikhs led similar agitations that called for better government support of agriculture.
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My lower-back pain was at its worst, and running only added to the agitation.
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In passing to her own chamber she met the Emperor, and, in the agitation of her maternal fears, told him all that had passed.
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When Stanhope entered to him, he found his guest lying on a sofa, in a high state of fever, both from his wounds and agitation.
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Santa Cruz embraced him, with more agitation than his stately mien might have announced.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTER
But agitation unlocks wayward fancies and sends them scurrying inopportunely across the very foreground of the mind.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
The agitation for Tenant-Right in Ireland is destined to fail—in fact, has virtually failed already.
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Thus the great inquiry ended; but public agitation did not cease.
But there was nothing else to do, so she went to bed, and tossed there for hours in a sort of monotonous agitation.
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She stood before him with lowered eyelids, her bosom heaving still from the agitation of fear his closeness had aroused in her.
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WORDS RELATED TO AGITATION
- agitation
- annoyance
- big scene
- big stink
- bother
- brawl
- brouhaha
- clamor
- confusion
- convulsion
- derangement
- disarrangement
- disorder
- disruption
- distraction
- eruption
- explosion
- ferment
- fisticuffs
- flap
- fracas
- fray
- fuss
- hindrance
- hubbub
- hullabaloo
- insurrection
- interruption
- intrusion
- molestation
- perturbation
- quake
- quarrel
- racket
- rampage
- restlessness
- riot
- ruckus
- rumble
- shock
- spasm
- stink
- stir
- storm
- to-do
- tremor
- tumult
- turmoil
- upheaval
- uprising
- uproar
- violence
- affect
- affection
- affectivity
- agitation
- anger
- ardor
- commotion
- concern
- desire
- despair
- despondency
- disturbance
- drive
- ecstasy
- elation
- empathy
- excitability
- excitement
- feeling
- fervor
- grief
- gut reaction
- happiness
- inspiration
- joy
- love
- melancholy
- passion
- perturbation
- pride
- rage
- remorse
- responsiveness
- sadness
- satisfaction
- sensation
- sensibility
- sensitiveness
- sentiment
- shame
- sorrow
- sympathy
- thrill
- tremor
- vehemence
- vibes
- warmth
- zeal
- affect
- affection
- affectivity
- agitation
- anger
- ardor
- commotion
- concern
- desire
- despair
- despondency
- disturbance
- drive
- ecstasy
- elation
- empathy
- excitability
- excitement
- feeling
- fervor
- grief
- gut reaction
- happiness
- inspiration
- joy
- love
- melancholy
- passion
- perturbation
- pride
- rage
- remorse
- responsiveness
- sadness
- satisfaction
- sensation
- sensibility
- sensitiveness
- sentiment
- shame
- sorrow
- sympathy
- thrill
- tremor
- vehemence
- vibes
- warmth
- zeal
- action
- activity
- ado
- adventure
- agitation
- animation
- bother
- buzz
- commotion
- confusion
- discomposure
- disturbance
- dither
- drama
- elation
- emotion
- excitation
- feeling
- ferment
- fever
- flurry
- frenzy
- furor
- fuss
- heat
- hubbub
- hullabaloo
- hurry
- hysteria
- impulse
- instigation
- intoxication
- melodrama
- motivation
- motive
- movement
- passion
- perturbation
- provocation
- rage
- stimulation
- stimulus
- stir
- thrill
- titillation
- to-do
- trepidation
- tumult
- turmoil
- urge
- warmth
- wildness
- abhorrence
- agitation
- angst
- anxiety
- aversion
- awe
- bête noire
- chickenheartedness
- cold feet
- cold sweat
- concern
- consternation
- cowardice
- creeps
- despair
- discomposure
- dismay
- disquietude
- distress
- doubt
- dread
- faintheartedness
- foreboding
- fright
- funk
- horror
- jitters
- misgiving
- nightmare
- panic
- phobia
- presentiment
- qualm
- recreancy
- reverence
- revulsion
- scare
- suspicion
- terror
- timidity
- trembling
- tremor
- trepidation
- unease
- uneasiness
- worry
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