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Agitated vs Aghast - What's the difference?

agitated | aghast |

As a verb agitated

is (agitate).

As an adjective aghast is

terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.

agitated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (agitate)

  • agitate

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (agitat)
  • To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
  • ``Winds . . . agitate the air.'' --Cowper.
  • (rare) To move or actuate.
  • :(Thomson)
  • To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
  • The mind of man is agitated by various passions. --Johnson.
  • To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.
  • :(Boyle)
  • To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
  • Synonyms

    * move, shake, excite, rouse, disturb, distract, revolve, discuss, debate, canvass

    aghast

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
  • * 1902 , The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle.
  • And while the revellers stood aghast at the fury of the man, one more wicked or, it may be, more drunken than the rest, cried out that they should put the hounds upon her.
  • * 1985 , Les Misérables , the song "Red and Black"
  • I am agog! I am aghast ! Is Marius in love at last?
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/14/england-scotland-international-friendly]
  • Hart, for one, will not remember the night for Lambert's heroics. Morrison, not closed down quickly enough, struck his shot well but England's No1 will be aghast at the way it struck his gloves then skidded off his knees and into the net.

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