Crossword Dictionary
AGITATe
agitate, agitable, agitated, agitates, agitating, betoss - v
to move with a violent, irregular action
Synonyms
bucket, convulse, jerk, jiggle, joggle, jolt, jounce, judder [chiefly British], quake, quiver, shake, shudder, vibrate, wobble (also wabble)
Examples
This feeling began to agitate me with a vexing, forward-reaching sense of a lack that should be filled.
She rose and trailed him from the house to the car, unable to guess what could agitate him if killing people didn't.
This extreme reaction displeased Theramenes, who in return began to agitate for the calling of the 5000 into real existence.
Etymology
1580s, "to disturb," from Latin agitatus, past participle of agitare "to put in constant or violent motion, drive onward, impel," frequentative of agere "to set in motion, drive, drive forward," figuratively "incite to action; keep in movement, stir up" (from PIE root *ag- "to drive, draw out or forth, move").