Agitate

Definitions: Agitate

Agitate

Verb

1. Try to stir up public opinion.

2. Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks".

3. 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; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate".

4. Move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat".

5. Move or cause to move quickly back and forth; "The chemist shook the flask vigorously"; "My hands were shaking".

6. Change the arrangement or position of.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "agitate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Agitate \Ag"i*tate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Agitated; present participle verb or noun Agitating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Agitate

Activity

Have a hand in; (act in); take an active part, put in one's oar, have a finger in the pie, mix oneself up with, trouble, one's head about, intrigue; agitate.

Agitation

Agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate.

Excitation

Agitate, perturb, ruffle, fluster, shake, disturb, startle, shock, stagger; give one a shock, give one a turn; strike all of a heap; stun, astound, electrify, galvanize, petrify.

Inquiry

Investigate; take up an inquiry, institute an inquiry, pursue an inquiry, follow up an inquiry, conduct an inquiry, carry on an inquiry, carry out an inquiry, prosecute an inquiry; Noun: look at, look into; preexamine; discuss, canvass, agitate.

Reasoning,

Open a discussion, open a case; try conclusions; join issue, be at issue; moot; come to the point; stir a question, agitate a question, ventilate a question, torture a question; take up a side, take up a case.

Crosswords: Agitate

Gal don't sweat it, don't get agitate just gwaan rotate ("Get Busy"; performing artist: SEAN PAUL)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The sight of your child will agitate you, and make you worse.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Pakistan

In the early 20th century, South Asian leaders began to agitate for a greater degree of autonomy. (references)

Serbia and Montenegro

In 1989, riding a wave of nationalist sentiment, Serbia's leadership reimposed direct rule over the autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina, prompting Albanians in Kosovo to agitate for separation from the Republic. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "agitate": agitate against ♦ agitate against smth. ♦ agitate for ♦ agitate for smth.. Additional references.

Afrikaan

agiteer (abet, incite, stir, stir up), aangry (affect, move, stir), skok (shake, shock), beroer (abet, alarm, incite, stir, stir up, touch lightly), benou (alarm). (various references)

Albanian

agjitoj (abet, incite, stir up), trazoj (break up, commingle, dash, dismay, distemper, disturb, fidget, flitter, flurry, fluster, flutter, harass, Harry, incommode, intermix, jumble, knead, perturb, poke, pother, ruffle, shuffle, stir, turn, vex), shqetësoj (ail, alarm, bother, break up, concern, denationalize, discommode, discompose, disquiet, distemper, distress, disturb, eat, embarrass, fash, flurry, fret, Harrow, Harry, incommode, move, peeve, perturb, plague, pother, preoccupy, ruffle, trouble, vex, worry), shkund (jar, jog, pump, punish, rock, shake, shake off, thresh), bëj agjitacion. (various references)

Arabic 

‏هيج (tease), ‏هز (bob, concuss, convulse, jolt, rattle, ring, rock, shake, shock, stir, swing, twitter, vibrate, wag, waggle), ‏ناقش (argue, bat, canvass, converse, debate, discuss, dispute, join issue with, moot, oppugn, powwow, question, set about, speak, talk, talk over, ventilate), ‏ناظر (beholder, caretaker, headmaster, joust, principal, superintend, supervise), ‏حاول إثارة الشعور العام, ‏حاور (discuss, talk over), ‏حرك (actuate, drive, induce, jostle, mobilize, motivate, stir, toss, turn, vex, whet), ‏خض, ‏أقلق (beset, concern, disconcert, disquiet, distress, disturb, ferret, fret, fuss, hop, molest, obsess, peck, perturb, rile, shake up, spook, torment, trouble, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset, worry), ‏أثار الرأي العام. (various references)

Bulgarian 

размесвам (interfuse, intermingle, intermix, mix, stir, trouble, work up), разбърквам (addle, clutter, derange, disarrange, disorder, jumble, litter, mess up, mix, mix up, muddle, puddle, rumple, scramble, tousle, trouble, tumble, unbalance, unfix, unsettle), разбивам (beat, beat up, blank, blast, blight, break, break down, break in pieces, break to pieces, burst open, dash, deflate, disrupt, hack, kick in, mill, overwhelm, pry open, scatter, shatter, smash, smash in, smash up, split off, stamp, whip, whip up, wreck), разисквам (discuss, dispute, moot, parley, reason, talk about, treat of), раздвижвам (fluctuate, jog, quicken, rouse, shake up, stir, stir up trouble, wake, whip up, work on, work up), възбуждам (actuate, arouse, engage, enkindle, excite, ferment, heat, inflame, irritate, key up, pique, provoke, raise, set up, stimulate, sting, stir, thrill, turn on), вълнувам (affect, excite, perturb, ripple, stir, trouble, vex, work up), обсъждам (argue, bethink, confer, consult, deliberate, discuss, parley, powwow, reason, revolve, talk about, talk over, ventilate), обмислям (bethink, cogitate, consider, debate, deliberate, digest, meditate, mull, ponder, pore, reason, revolve, speculate, study, think about, think out, think over, turn over in one's mind), агитирам, безпокоя (ail, alarm, bother, chivy, discompose, disturb, exercise, fash, feeze, gall, inconvenience, molest, pother, put about, vex, worry). (various references)

Chinese 

�"动 (Agitated, Agitating, Agitation, incitement, instigate, Instigated, Instigating, instigation), �"動 (arouse, instigate), 盪 . (various references)

Czech

agitovat (canvass), znepokojit (alarm, discompose, disconcert, disquiet, disturb, upset), zneklidòovat, zmítat (convulse, toss), protřepat, prodiskutovat (discuss), pobuřovat (incite), míchat (blend, intermingle, stir). (various references)

Danish

ryste (quiver, rocking, shake, shiver, shock, tremble), oprøre (excite, rouse, stir up). (various references)

Dutch

opstoken (abet, incite, stir up), opruien (abet, incite, stir up), ophitsen (abet, excite, incite, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir up), agiteren (abet, agitation, incite, stir up, stirring). (various references)

Esperanto

agiti (abet, incite, stir up). (various references)

Faeroese

skaka (shake, shock), rista (engrave, shake, shock), øsa (abet, excite, incite, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir up), ørkymla (abet, confuse, incite, puzzle, stir up). (various references)

Farsi 

پریشان کردن (Afflict, Ail, Buffalo, Confound, Distract, Nonplus, Oppress, Stress, Tousle), تکاندادن , تحریک کردن (Actuate, Annoy, Arouse, Bestir, Edge, Egg, Excite, Fuel, Ginger, Goad, Hypo, Incense, Incite, Instigate, Motivate, Move, Pique, Prick, Prime, Provoke, Stimulate), سراسیمه کردن (Shock, Stun), اشفتن (Disquiet, Disturb, Perturb, Shake, Trouble, Upset), بکارانداختن (Activate, Actuate, Exercise, Operate). (various references)

Finnish

kiihottaa (abet, excite, incite, rouse, stimulate, stir up). (various references)

French

agiter (to agitate), troubler, débattre. (various references)

German

beunruhigen (alarm, disconcert, disquiet, disturb, faze, harass, perturb, to agitate, to alarm, to disquiet, to disturb, to faze, to trouble, trouble, unsettle, worry), aufregen (annoy, discompose, disturb, excite, fash, fluster, get, irritate, make edgy, make nervous, rouse, stir up, to agitate, to discompose, to excite, to fluster, unsettle, upset), erregen (actuate, affect, annoy, arouse, attract, capture, cause, come in for, create, energize, excite, generate, inflame, infuriate, move, operate, provoke, raise, rouse, stimulate, stir, stir up, thrill, to energize, to excite, v.), aufrühren (agitation, rake up, rouse, rousing, stir up, stirring, stirring up, to agitate), agitieren (abet, campaign, incite, stir up). (various references)

Greek 

ανακινώ (moot, stir, touch on), αναδεύω (stir), ταράσσω (abash, confound, discompose, disconcert, disturb, flurry, flutter, jar, roil, ruffle, shock, stir), ταράζω (churn, roil, shake, shaken, shook). (various references)

Hawaiian

agjitoj (abet, incite, stir up). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעשות תעמול�" (propagandize), לזעזע (convulse, jar, jolt, shake, shock, stagger, startle, stun), ל�"תסיס (effervesce, excite, ferment), ל�"סעיר (excite, infuriate), ל� ער (shake, stir). (various references)

Hungarian

agitál (abet, incite, stir up, to be on the stump). (various references)

Indonesian

menghasut (demagogical, instigate), menggoncang. (various references)

Italian

agitarsi (bestir oneself, bustle, fidget, flounder, flutter, fuss, rain, rainfall, ruffle, shake, stir, tingle, toss, tumble, twitch, wag), agitare (become upset, convulse, discompose, excite, flap, flirt, fluster, flutter, fly, fret, Frisk, get excited, lash, rattle, ruffle, shake, shake up, stir, swing, toss, upset, wag, waggle, wave, wave about, wave around), dibattere (debate, discuss, moot, struggle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�拌 (beat, stir, whip). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かくは�" (agitation, all, beat, each clan, every, stir, stirring, various, whip, whipping). (various references)

Korean 

교반하십시�". (various references)

Manx

seiy (bear down, churn, churning, foment, fomentation, gore, gore of bull, knife, litter, lunge, mix up, mixing, mixture, muddy; pushing, prod, propel, propulsion, protrusion, push, shove, shoving, stab, stick, stir, stir up, thrust, tilt, tilting, transfix), greesaghey (abet, accelerate, drive, egg on, excitation, excite, excitement, fire, fire enthusiasm, foment, fomentation, foster, incentive, incite, instigate, instigation, press, prod, provocation, provoke, stir, stir up), gleashaghey seose. (various references)

Pig Latin

agitateay

Polish

potrząsać. (various references)

Portuguese

agitar (a moot point, abet, alarm, beat, brandish, bustle, churn, cob, commove, convulse, dimple, discompose, excite, faze, fermentable, flap, flick, fling, flounce, flourishing, flurry, flutter, fret, incite, jar, jingle, jounce, perturb, pulsate, quiver, ripple, shake, stir, stir up, sway, swing, switch, toss, ventilate, waggle, wave, whip up, whisk), revolver mentalmente, perturbar (break, cloud, commove, confound, confuse, depolarise, derange, disarray, disquiet, disquieting, disturb, disturbance, fear, flush, fluster, harass, incommode, mess, overturn, perturb, pothole, pull down, puzzle, ruffle, shake, throw out, to disturb, toss, trouble, unbalance, unhinge, unsettle, upset), manter em agitação, excitar (calorify, disgruntle, electrization, enlace, excite, exciting, ferment, fire alarm, flurry, flush, fluster, galvanize, incense, incite, inflammability, intrigue, irritate, kindle, Kittle, move, provoke, rouse, stimulate, stir, stir up, thrill, thurify, waken, whet), discutir (argue, canvass, controvert, debate, deliberate, discourse, discuss, dispute, gainsay, knock off, moot, quarrel, rap, reason, spar, strike off, talk over, traverse, ventilate). (various references)

Romanian

agita (arouse, brandish, bustle, churn, excite, fidget, flirt, flourish, flurry, flutter, fret, fume, incite, raise, rouse, ruffle, shake, shake up, shock, stir, trouble, vex, wag, waggle, wave, wriggle). (various references)

Russian 

возбуждать (actuate, energize, engender, exasperate, excite, flush, galvanize, hype up, incite, inflame, innervate, kindle, lash, pique), волновать (alarm, fluster, flutter, hype up, move, overexcite, perturb, pother), взбудоражить (break china, disturb), перемешивать (interfuse, intermingle, mix, rabble, randomize). (various references)

Scottish

gluais (affect, move, put in motion, stir). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzrujati (get excited, ruffle, surge, upset), raspravljati (argue, debate, discuss, polemicize, talk over), potresti (convulse, jar, shake, shock, upset), mućkati (jumble, mix, shake). (various references)

Spanish

agitar (excite, flourish, flurry, flutter, rattle, ruffle, shake, shake up, stir, switch, trouble, wag, wave, whirl, wind up). (various references)

Sranan

seki (shake, shock). (various references)

Swedish

uppröra (disturb, excite, flurry, horrify, horrily, inflame, irritate, outrage, rouse, shock, stir, stir up, upset), agitera (canvass, electioneer). (various references)

Turkish

altüst etmek (bedevil, clutter, clutter up, depolarise, disappoint, disorganize, disturb, knock galley-west, make havoc of, overset, overturn, play havoc with, play the deuce with, ransack, run upside down, screw up, turn about, turn around, turn under, Upend, upset, upturn, work havoc), tahrik etmek (egg, egg on, excite, fan, ferment, hound, hound on, incite, instigate, irritate, jockey into, move, provoke, rough the wrong way, rouse, seduce, solicit, stimulate, sting, stir up, turn on, whet, whip up, wind up, work up), sarsmak (affect, afflict, buffet, buffet about, concuss, convulse, cut up, depolarise, dislocate, erode, give a jerk, hit, horrify, jar, jerk, jog, jolt, jounce, reduce, rock, shake, shake up, shock, undermine, unsettle), sallamak (Bob, brandish, flap, flirt, flourish, jog, joggle, jolt, nod, rock, roll, shake, swing, switch, wag, waggle, wave), propaganda yapmak (ballyhoo, canvass, make propaganda, propagandize, propagate), kışkırtmak (antagonize, defy, egg, egg on, excite, fan the flame, ferment, foment, ginger, ginger up, goad, goad on, hound, hound on, incite, inflame, instigate, jockey into, lash, prod, provoke, rouse, set on, solicit, sting, stir up, tempt, warm up, whip up), üzmek (affect, afflict, aggrieve, break up, cast down, chagrin, deject, desolate, disgruntle, distress, fret, grieve, grind, grind down, hatchel, hit, lacerate, lead smb. a dance, mope, pain, pother, put out, sadden, shake, spite, trouble, vex, worry), çalkalanmak (slosh, slush, swash), çalkalamak (churn, rinse, rinse out, rouse, shake, shake up, slosh, swash, swill, swill out, whip up). (various references)

Turkmen 

tolgundyrmak (excite, worry someone). (various references)

Ukranian 

хвилювати (affect, amove, appeal, commove, disturb, embroil, excite, ferment, fluster, inflame, perturbate, pother, reck, tempest, worry), трясти (jar, jolt, rattle, rock, shake), затівати (brew, contrive, plan, try), замишляти (chew, cogitate, compass, design, meditate, premeditate, purpose, scheme), задумувати (compose, conceive, design), збуджувати (actuate, amove, animate, arouse, electrify, elevate, exalt, excite, flurry, flush, incite, innervate, key up, kindle, pique, provoke, stimulate, tense, thrill, wake, whet, wind up, work up), збовтувати (churn, jumble, shake up, stir up), агітувати (stump), підбурювати (abet, encourage, incite, instigate, prickle, prod, solicit), палко обговорювати. (various references)

Welsh

aflonyddu (disquiet, disturb, grow restless, molest), cythryblu (trouble), cynhyrfu (stir), cyffroi (actuate, arouse, bestir, disturb, excite, move, provoke, stir), corddi (churn, turn). (various references)

lu. (various references)

commota, commotae, commotaque, commoti, commotis, commotum, commotus, commoveantur, commoveat, commoveatur, commovebantur, commovebit, commovebitur, commovebo, commovebor, commovebuntur, commovendum, commoventes, commoventur, commovere, commoveretur, commoveri, commoverit, commoverunt, commovet, commovi, commovisti, commovit, concitant, concitantem, concitantur, concitare, concitasti, concitat, concitata, concitate, concitati, concitatus, concitaverit, concitaverunt, concitavit, concitetur, concito, concutio, emovere, moram, moras, more, moris, morisque, moro, mose, mota, motae, moti, motio, motu, motum, motus, moveamini, movearis, moveat, moveatur, movebant, movebantur, movebatur, movebit, movebitur, movebo, movebor, movebunt, movebuntur, movemini, movemur, movenda, movens, movent, moventes, moventur, movere, moverem, moverentur, moveret, moveri, moveris, moverit, moverunt, moveruntque, moves, movete, movetur, movissent, movit, permoveo, sollicita, sollicitabat, sollicitans, turba, turbabatur, turbabis, turbabit, turbabitur, turbabo, turbabuntur, turbamini, turbantes, turbarentur, turbaret, turbari, turbaris, turbas, turbasti, turbastis, turbat, turbata, turbatae, turbati, turbatique, turbato, turbatum, turbatus, turbaverant, turbaverunt, turbavi, turbavit, turbemini, turbetur, turbo, turbore. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "agitate": agitated, agitatedly, agitates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Agitate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abitante, aggitate, agiate, agita, agitare, agitater, agitiate, agitity, agotte, ajitate, Algistat, atiate, avitate, cavitate, guttata. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: agate, taiga.

-3 letters: gait, gate, geta, tate, teat.

-4 letters: aga, age, ait, ate, att, eat, eta, gae, gat, get, gie, git, tae, tag, tat, tea, teg, tet, tie, tit.

-5 letters: aa, ae, ag, ai, at, et, it, ta, ti.

+1 letter: agitated, agitates, tailgate.

+2 letters: agitative, castigate, gravitate, sagittate, tailgated, tailgater, tailgates.

+3 letters: agitatedly, antedating, castigated, castigates, catenating, fastigiate, gravitated, gravitates, ingratiate, magistrate, stalagmite, sterigmata, tailgaters, tangential.

+4 letters: acetylating, aestivating, agglutinate, altercating, alternating, antifatigue, attenuating, devastating, expatiating, gestational, gravitative, ingratiated, ingratiates, magistrates, maltreating, reattaching, reattacking, reattaining, retaliating, stalagmites, stalemating, steatopygia, strategical, tagliatelle, triangulate.

+5 letters: accentuating, adulterating, agglutinated, agglutinates, alliterating, antimagnetic, apothegmatic, augmentation, augmentative, bantamweight, breathtaking, deactivating, decapitating, expatriating, magistrature, metagalactic, reactivating, repatriating, steatopygias, tagliatelles, tangentially, transmigrate, triangulated, triangulates, ultraheating, vegetational.

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