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overagitate

overagitate verb: to agitate excessively.

Verb

overagitate (third-person singular simple present overagitates, present participle overagitating, simple past and past participle overagitated)

  1. To agitate excessively.
    • And what else does this mean, than so much to over-agitate the sincere milk of the word, that it curdles into buttera. 1656, Bishop Joseph Hall, Sermon before the Synod of Dort

Forms of overagitate

third-person singular presentoveragitates
present participleoveragitating
past participleoveragitated
pastoveragitated

Origin of overagitate

From over- + agitate.

Questions about overagitate

What does overagitate mean?
Overagitate means to agitate excessively.
What part of speech is overagitate?
Overagitate is a verb.
What is the past tense of overagitate?
The past tense of overagitate is overagitated.

Words near overagitate in the dictionary

  1. overaggressions
  2. overaggressive
  3. overaggressively
  4. overaggressiveness
  5. overaging
  6. overagitate
  7. overagitated
  8. overagitates
  9. overagitating
  10. overagitation
  11. overagonise

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