Dictionary entry details
• AGITATE (verb)
Meaning:
Try to stir up public opinion
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
stir up; foment; agitate
Hypernyms (to "agitate" is one way to...):
provoke; stimulate (provide the needed stimulus for)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "agitate"):
rumpus (cause a disturbance)
Sentence frames:
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Meaning:
Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
commove; charge up; agitate; rouse; excite; turn on; charge
Context example:
The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks
Hypernyms (to "agitate" is one way to...):
disturb; trouble; upset (move deeply)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "agitate"):
electrify (excite suddenly and intensely)
pother (make upset or troubled)
bother (make nervous or agitated)
hype up; psych up (get excited or stimulated)
Sentence frames:
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Sentence examples:
The bad news will agitate him
The good news will agitate her
Antonym:
calm (make calm or still)
Meaning:
Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
crusade; campaign; agitate; fight; push; press
Context examples:
The liberal party pushed for reforms / She is crusading for women's rights / The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate
Hypernyms (to "agitate" is one way to...):
advertise; advertize; promote; push (make publicity for; try to sell (a product))
Sentence frames:
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Meaning:
Move very slightly
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
budge; stir; agitate; shift
Context example:
He shifted in his seat
Hypernyms (to "agitate" is one way to...):
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Sentence frames:
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Sentence example:
The crowds agitate in the streets
Meaning:
Move or cause to move back and forth
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
shake; agitate
Context examples:
The chemist shook the flask vigorously / My hands were shaking
Hypernyms (to "agitate" is one way to...):
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "agitate"):
jiggle; joggle; wiggle (move to and fro)
convulse; jactitate; slash; thrash; thrash about; thresh; thresh about; toss (move or stir about violently)
rattle (shake and cause to make a rattling noise)
concuss (shake violently)
shake up; succuss (shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body))
sparge (agitate by introducing air or compressed gas)
convulse (shake uncontrollably)
palpitate (cause to throb or beat rapidly)
quake; tremor (shake with seismic vibrations)
tremble (move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways)
fan (agitate the air)
fluff up; plump up; shake up (make fuller by shaking)
Sentence frames:
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Meaning:
Change the arrangement or position of
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
raise up; commove; disturb; stir up; vex; shake up; agitate
Hypernyms (to "agitate" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "agitate"):
beat; scramble (stir vigorously)
toss (agitate)
rile; roil (make turbid by stirring up the sediments of)
poke (stir by poking)
Sentence frames:
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