Definition of agitate

verb (v)

• try to stir up public opinion (verb.social)

  Synonym: foment, stir up
  

  source: wordnet30
• cause to be agitated, excited, or roused (verb.emotion)

  Synonym: charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on
  Antonym: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize
  

  source: wordnet30
• exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for (verb.social)

  Synonym: campaign, crusade, fight, press, push
  

  source: wordnet30
• move very slightly (verb.motion)

  Synonym: budge, shift, stir
  

  source: wordnet30
• move or cause to move back and forth (verb.motion)

  Synonym: shake
  

  source: wordnet30
• change the arrangement or position of (verb.contact)

  Synonym: commove, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex
  

  source: wordnet30
• To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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