Usually means: Stir up, disturb, or provoke.
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  1. agitate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. agitate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. agitate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. agitate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. agitate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Agitate, agitate: Wordnik
  7. agitate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. agitate: Wiktionary
  9. agitate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. agitate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. agitate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Agitate, agitate: Dictionary.com
  13. agitate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Agitate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Agitate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. agitate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. agitate: Rhymezone
  18. agitate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. agitate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. agitate: Free Dictionary
  21. agitate: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. agitate: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. agitate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Agitate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).
verb:  (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake.
verb:  To participate in political agitation (sense 3).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To set in motion; to actuate.
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To discuss or debate.
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To mull over, or think deeply about; to consider, to devise.

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