What does agitating mean?

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ag·i·tat·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. agitative, agitating, provokingadjective

    causing or tending to cause anger or resentment

    "a provoking delay at the airport"

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  1. agitating

    Agitating generally refers to the action of stirring up, disturbing or exciting emotions, thoughts, or actions in a person or condition. It can involve physically stirring or shaking, or metaphorically incite strong feelings such as fear, anger, or unrest. Furthermore, it can also mean provoking or campaigning strenuously for a political or social cause.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Agitating

    of Agitate

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of agitating in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of agitating in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of agitating in a Sentence

  1. Benjamin Hooks:

    Black Americans are not defeated, the civil rights movement is not dead. If anyone thinks that we are going to stop agitating, they had better think again. If anyone thinks that we are going to stop litigating, they had better close the courts. If anyone thinks that we are not going to demonstrate and protest, they had better roll up the sidewalks.

  2. Agnes Repplier:

    The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

  3. Jean Lorrain:

    Polaire! The agitating and agitated Polaire! The tiny slip of a woman that you know, with the waist slender to the point of pain, of screaming out loud, of breaking in two, in a spasmically tight bodice, the prettiest slimness ...

  4. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford:

    It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

  5. Prakash Adhikari:

    The prime minister will hold dialogue with the agitating parties in the Terai in the coming days.

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