agitate
verbEtymology
From Middle English agitat(e) (“set in motion”), borrowed from Latin agitātus, perfect passive participle of agitō (“to put in motion”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), frequentative of agō (“to drive, move, push”), see -tō. Cognate with French agiter. See also act and agent.
- borrowed from agitātus
Definitions
To disturb or excite
To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).
- He was greatly agitated by the news.
To cause to move with a violent, irregular action
To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake.
- to agitate water in a vessel
- The wind agitates the sea.
To participate in political agitation (sense 3).
- NAMBLA is working to build a coalition of gay, lesbian, progressive and civil liberties groups to agitate against the increasing state attacks on gay men who associate with boys.
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To set in motion
To set in motion; to actuate.
To discuss or debate.
- Your speech at the time a bill for the regency was agitated now lies before me.
To mull over, or think deeply about
To mull over, or think deeply about; to consider, to devise.
- Politicians agitate desperate designs.
The neighborhood
- neighboragitable
- neighboragitant
- neighboragitatee
- neighboragitation
- neighboragitational
- neighboragitative
- neighboragitator
- neighboragitatory
- neighboragitatrix
- neighborinagitable
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at agitate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at agitate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at agitate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA