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Definition of agitate:
- To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.
- To move or actuate.
- To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
- To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
- To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
Synonyms:
weird out, bring up, adjure, exercise, awaken, nonplus, dispute, fire up, baffle, file, bandy, saddle, bear on, campaign, wave, vex, get at, advertize, move, waver, discomfort, urge, tug, drive out, gravel, chafe, rile, commove, get to, bear down, set off, shoot, mystify, depend on, bat, trip, hang over, transfer, dismay, contract, instigate, squeeze, tremble, switch on, institutionalise, beseech, fluctuate, ride, budge, shoot down, send, brandish, fluff up, lurch, distemper, press, weightlift, dislodge, interrupt, lodge, argue, irritate, escape from, judder, flummox, fight down, oppose, weigh, jiggle, charge, perplex, institutionalize, crowd, crusade, raise up, bucket, labor, wind up, labour, fight, bounce, reel, nark, blacklist, constrict, tilt, bother, wake up, destabilize, compact, stir up, jerk, reorganise, conjure up, puzzle, unsettle, pitch, shift, moot, wound, bill, nettle, shake up, canvass, struggle, rout out, careen, boycott, rag, turn on, buck, annoy, urge on, touch, hagride, ignite, didder, pose, devastate, wake, contend, amaze, distress, flap, talk over, trip out, level, run, depend upon, undo, depress, call forth, waken, thrill, joggle, derail, load, burden, calm, tear, distract, defend, rouse, exhort, iron out, defect, freak, advertise, stir, jounce, sex, hinge on, put forward, hinge upon, iron, shake, blame, disturb, incite, promote, shake off, force out, point, debate, chase, bump around, succuss, stab, ail, push, sway, study atdisturb, bid, rock, wobble, unhinge, reorganize, get, repetition, plump up, bestir, change over, energise, drive, demonstrate, evoke, wash, raise, frazzle, stupefy, accuse, reposition, totter, fuss, devolve on, compress, appoint, devil, worry, swing, entreat, charge up, bewilder, concern, flutter, fight back, bring down, dumbfound, consign, commit, conjure, take the field, whirl, call down, throw off, weight-lift, foment, flurry, invoke, vibrate, heat, excite, press out, stick, get off, change, switch, oscillate, beat, force.
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derange (part of speech: verb)
- displace,
- derange,
- dishevel,
- discompose,
- tamper,
- muddle,
- scatter,
- disarrange,
- jumble,
- disturb,
- meddle,
- swirl,
- whisk,
- toss,
- ruffle,
- disorder,
- mislay,
- convulse,
- trouble,
- roil,
- ferment,
- roughen,
- clutter,
- rummage,
- mix-up,
- mess,
- dislocate,
- capsize,
- churn,
- misplace,
- confuse,
- blur,
- tumble,
- confound,
- upset,
- scramble,
- rumple,
- ripple,
- hash,
- perturb,
- whip,
- disorganize,
- tousle,
- botch,
- muss
- agitate (part of speech: verb)
- excite (part of speech: verb)
- frighten (part of speech: verb)
- invigorate (part of speech: verb)
Usage examples:
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But the excitement of the evening broke Lance's sleep, and the next day he was quite ill; while Felix not only saw that he must not be left, but perceived after the first that Sister Constance's warning ought to be respected, and that an arrival would only agitate Cherry's nerves.
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To accomplish this the stomach muscles agitate the food continuously, somewhat like a washing machine.
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As you see the wind only agitate the green leaf upon the bough, while the leaf which has lain withered and seared on the ground, bruised and trampled upon till the sap and life are gone, is suddenly whirled aloft- now here- now there- without stay and without rest; so the love which visits the happy and the hopeful hath but freshness on its wings!