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/ˈædʒətˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Agitate v. t. (past & past part. agitated; pres. part. agitating)

To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds... agitate the air."

To move or actuate. (R.)

To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated. "The mind of man is agitated by various passions."

To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.

To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.

Synonyms: To move; shake; excite; rouse; disturb; distract; revolve; discuss; debate; canvass.

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Etymology of 'Agitate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Agitate" Quotes from Famous Books

... she had by chance left me a legacy, there it goes.) You would like, ma'am, to see the rooms upstairs? Here is the landlord to conduct your ladyship. Frank will be quite ready to receive you when you come down. I am sure I need not beg of your kindness that nothing may be said to agitate him. It is barely three weeks since M. de Castillonnes's ball was extracted; and the doctors wish he should be ...

— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray

... "you have moved me strangely. There is about you an influence that cannot be resisted. It is like what Pindar says of music; if it does not give delight, it is sure to agitate and oppress the heart. From the first moment you spoke, I have felt this mysterious power. It is as if some superior being led me back, even against my will, to the days of my childhood, when I gathered acorns from the ancient oak that shadows the fountain of Byblis, or ran ...

— Philothea - A Grecian Romance • Lydia Maria Child

... of preparing this water for use is to agitate it strongly with a large surface exposed to the fixed air. By this means more than an equal bulk of air may be communicated to a large quantity of water in the space of a few minutes. But since agitation promotes the dissipation of fixed air from water, it cannot be made to imbibe ...

— Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air • Joseph Priestley

... foreign paper contained a article saying that the object of the London stage is "to introduce living pictures to say pretty things for young girls," and that "of the social, religious, economic or intellectual struggles which agitate our time no trace is observable in the English stage literature of the day," and that English stage literature "has become nothing more than an insipid and dying study of the doings of the aristocratic and ...

— Our Stage and Its Critics • "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"

... to the labourer, as an inducement to agitate briskly, that, in time, a state of things will be brought about when every man will have a small farm of four or five acres upon which to live comfortably, independent of a master. Occasional instances, however, of labourers endeavouring to exist upon a few ...

— Hodge and His Masters • Richard Jefferies

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