English Dictionary

agitate

/ˈæ.d͡ʒɪ.teɪt/

verb

(transitive) To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person). / (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake. / (transitive, obsolete) To set in motion; to actuate.

The protesters agitate for change.

意味（1）

(transitive) To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).

He was greatly agitated by the news.

意味（2）

(transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake.

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

意味（3）

(transitive, obsolete) To set in motion; to actuate.

意味（4）

(transitive, now rare) To discuss or debate.

Your speech at the time a bill for the regency was agitated now lies before me.

意味（5）

(transitive, now rare) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to consider, to devise.

politicians agitate desperate designs