intransitive verb. To cause to move with violence or sudden force.

intransitive verb. To upset; disturb.

intransitive verb. To arouse interest in (a cause, for example) by use of the written or spoken word; discuss or debate.

intransitive verb. To stir up public interest in a cause.

To move or actuate; maintain the action of.

To move to and fro; impart regular motion to.

To move or force into violent irregular action; shake or move briskly; excite physically: as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

To disturb, or excite into tumult; perturb.

To discuss: debate; call attention to by speech or writing: as, to agitate the question of free trade.

To consider on all sides; revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; plan.

Synonyms and To rouse, stir up, ruffle, discompose.5 and To canvass, deliberate upon.

To engage in agitation; arouse or attempt to arouse public interest, as in some political or social question: as, he set out to agitate in the country.

transitive verb. To move with a violent, irregular action

transitive verb. To move or actuate.

transitive verb. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb.

transitive verb. To discuss with great earnestness; to debate.

transitive verb. To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot.

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

verb. To move or actuate. --Thomson.

verb. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.

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

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

verb. change the arrangement or position of

verb. move very slightly

verb. 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. move or cause to move back and forth

verb. try to stir up public opinion

verb. cause to be agitated, excited, or roused

"The real question which this Society wishes to agitate is whether they do not furnish the best remedy for settling all disputes."

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