agitate
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).
He was greatly agitated by the news.
Đồng nghĩa: disturb, unsettle, agitate, freak, bother, bring down, discompose, disconcert, enturbulate, disturb, mortify, perturb, put out, ruffle, throw off balance, unsettle, upset, flurry
- 2.
(transitive)To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake.
to agitate water in a vessel
The wind agitates the sea.
Đồng nghĩa: move, muddle, roil, shake
- 3.
To participate in political agitation (sense 3).
- 4.
(obsolete, transitive)To set in motion; to actuate.
Đồng nghĩa: activate, animate, excite, trigger, rouse, set off
- 5.
(archaic, transitive)(transitive, now rare) To discuss or debate.
Đồng nghĩa: discuss, debate, canvass
- 6.
(archaic, transitive)(transitive, now rare) To mull over, or think deeply about; to consider, to devise.
Politicians agitate desperate designs.
Đồng nghĩa: revolve, ruminate, afterthink, agitate, bethink, call to mind, chew, chew over, chew the cud, cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, introspect, mull, mull over, muse, overthink, ponder, meditate, quander, reflect, rethink, reconsider, revolve, ruminate, second-guess, think, think over
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ine-pro From Middle English agitat (set in motion), Latin agitātus, perfect passive participle of agitō (to put in motion) (see -ate), frequentative of agō (to drive, move, push), see -tō. Cognate with agiter. See also act and agent.