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agitate the communicator

agitate the communicator verb: to ring a bell as a summons.

Verb

agitate the communicator (third-person singular simple present agitates the communicator, present participle agitating the communicator, simple past and past participle agitated the communicator)

  1. (archaic, humorous) To ring a bell as a summons.
    • So Tom, Dick, and Harry were obliged to be in waiting on the Captain, who might agitate the communicator any minute, and woe be to him who was not ready to obey the summons.1857, William Wilson Dobie, Recollections of a Visit to Port-Phillip, Australia, in 1852-55, page 29
    • Agitate the communicator, and send the slavey round to the stables.1865, Bracebridge Hemyng, Butler Burke at Eton, page 251

Forms of agitate the communicator

third-person singular presentagitates the communicator
present participleagitating the communicator
past participleagitated the communicator
pastagitated the communicator

Questions about agitate the communicator

What does agitate the communicator mean?
Agitate the communicator means to ring a bell as a summons.
What part of speech is agitate the communicator?
Agitate the communicator is a verb.
What is the past tense of agitate the communicator?
The past tense of agitate the communicator is agitated the communicator.

Words near agitate the communicator in the dictionary

  1. agitable
  2. agitant
  3. agitants
  4. agitatable
  5. agitate
  6. agitate the communicator
  7. agitated
  8. agitated delirium
  9. agitated the communicator
  10. agitatedly
  11. agitatedness

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