agitation

simple noun19 collocationsAvg. frequency: 7.1

Indicates that public protest or demand for change is increasing.

Refers to protest and activities intended to achieve a political goal.

Refers to public protest involving a very large number of people.

Refers to protest or demands made openly by the general population.

Indicates protest or demand for change supported by many people.

Indicates a very high degree of worry or nervous excitement.

Refers to a severe and intense state of worry or excitement.

Common phrase to describe the internal experience of being agitated.

Refers to the condition or situation of being agitated.

Used to specify the target of the public protest.

Used to specify the goal or demand of the public protest.

Describes an action being done while in a state of agitation.

Used to explain that an action was caused by a state of worry or excitement.

To deliberately cause or provoke public protest and unrest.

To start using public protest as a method to achieve a goal, often when other methods have failed.

A formal way to say someone starts to participate in public protest.

A common way to say you are trying not to show your worry or excitement.

To visibly display signs of being worried or nervously excited.

To purposefully hide one's feelings of worry or excitement from others.