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Word Meanings - BETOSS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to toss. "My betossed soul." Shak.

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  • AGITATE
    1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
  • MOTIONER
    One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
  • MOTIONIST
    A mover.
  • BETOSS
    To put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to toss. "My betossed soul." Shak.
  • VIOLENT
    probably akin to Gr. 1. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. Float
  • DISTURBANCE
    The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil;
  • MOTION PICTURE
    A moving picture.
  • MOTIONLESS
    Without motion; being at rest.
  • MOTION
    An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act, process, or state of changing place or position;
  • AGITATEDLY
    In an agitated manner.
  • VIOLENTLY
    In a violent manner.
  • DISTURB
    desturber, destourber, fr. L. disturbare, disturbatum; dis- + turbare 1. To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest. Preparing to disturb With all-cofounding war the realms
  • DISTURBATION
    Act of disturbing; disturbance. Daniel.
  • DISTURBER
    One who interrupts or incommodes another in the peaceable enjoyment of his right. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, disturbs of disquiets; a violator of peace; a troubler. A needless disturber of the peace of God's church and an author of
  • EXCITO-MOTION
    Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
  • EFFLAGITATE
    To ask urgently. Cockeram.
  • NERVIMOTION
    The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
  • IDEO-MOTION
    An ideo-motor movement.
  • OVERAGITATE
    To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient. Bp. Hall.
  • PREMOTION
    Previous motion or excitement to action.
  • ELECTRO-MOTION
    The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.
  • LINK MOTION
    A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very
  • EMOTIONALIZE
    To give an emotional character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude.
  • EMOTIONALISM
    The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.
  • COMMOTION
    1. Disturbed or violent motion; agitation. commotion in the winds! Shak. 2. A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot. When ye shall hear of wars and commotions. Luke xxi. 9. 3. Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement.

 

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