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.