Agitate

·vt To move or actuate.

II. Agitate ·vt To stir up; to disturb or excite; to Perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.

III. Agitate ·vt To discuss with great earnestness; to Debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.

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

V. Agitate ·vt To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to Devise; to Plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.