Agitable(a.) Capable of being agitated, or easily moved.
Agitate(v. t.) To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
Agitate(v. t.) To move or actuate.
Agitate(v. t.) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
Agitate(v. t.) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.
Agitate(v. t.) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
Agitated(imp. & p. p.) of Agitate
Agitatedly(adv.) In an agitated manner.
Agitating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Agitate
Agitation(n.) The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.
Agitation(n.) A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation.
Agitation(n.) Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation.
Agitation(n.) Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate.
Agitative(a.) Tending to agitate.
Agitator(n.) One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.
Agitator(n.) One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators.
Agitator(n.) An implement for shaking or mixing.
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