agitate

  1. Verb.  To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
  2. Verb.  (rare) To move or actuate. --Thomson.
  3. Verb.  To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
  4. Verb.  To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated. --Boyle.
  5. Verb.  To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.

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