See agitate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "to agitate water in a vessel",
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"text": "The wind agitates the sea.",
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"text": "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.",
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"word": "agitare"
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"_dis1": "6 81 2 3 3 5",
"code": "it",
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"word": "scuotere"
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"word": "sbattere"
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"word": "掻き乱す"
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"ref": "1981 August 1, Mitzel, “NAMBLA Says National Crackdown Starting”, in Gay Community News, page 3:",
"text": "NAMBLA is working to build a coalition of gay, lesbian, progressive and civil liberties groups to agitate against the increasing state attacks on gay men who associate with boys.",
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"(transitive, obsolete) To set in motion; to actuate."
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"word": "hämmentää"
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"word": "axitar"
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"sense": "to move or actuate",
"word": "agitar"
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"sense": "to move or actuate",
"word": "agita"
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"sense": "to move or actuate",
"word": "röra om"
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"ref": "1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:",
"text": "Your speech at the time a bill for the regency was agitated now lies before me.",
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"sense": "discuss actively",
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"sense": "to discuss with great earnestness; to debate",
"word": "debattieren"
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"code": "de",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.