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alborotar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • agitate verb To make someone anxious, upset, or unsettled.
  • ballyhoo noun Sensational or clamorous advertising or publicity.
  • infect verb To pass a disease-causing germ or virus into a person, animal, or plant.
  • tease verb To poke fun at someone playfully or, sometimes, unkindly.

Senses

alborotar is used for these senses in English:

  • ballyhoo (transitive) To sensationalize or make grand claims.
  • infect (transitive) To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.
  • stir up (transitive) To arouse or excite (passion or action, etc.).
  • tease (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.

agitate — full definition

  1. verb To make someone anxious, upset, or unsettled.
  2. verb To shake or stir something with force.
  3. verb To campaign publicly and persistently for a political or social cause.

ballyhoo — full definition

  1. noun Sensational or clamorous advertising or publicity.
  2. noun Noisy shouting or uproar.

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