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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

agitar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: a-xi-tar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Jabble/ˈdʒæb.əl/
verbnounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El viento comenzó a agitar el agua del lago."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To stir up water into a rough, choppy, or muddy condition.

    "The strong wind began to jabble the surface of the small loch."
As noun
  1. 1

    A choppy, disturbed state of water, or confused, noisy speech.

    "The boat struggled against the sudden jabble in the channel."
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English origins, likely of imitative or frequentative Scandinavian extraction related to the dialectal verb 'jab', meaning to jabber or agitate. Historically used in Scottish and northern English dialects to describe choppy water or confused, noisy chatter.

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