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What does agitate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word agitate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action
  2. (intransitive, rare) To move or actuate.
  3. (transitive) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb
  4. (transitive) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate
  5. (transitive) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot
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Once most of the crystals have dissolved, add another heaped spoon and continue to agitate, checking periodically on your progress.
I do not see why we should agitate our already fevered minds by these false notions.
They agitate for power on the clericalist assumption that the Church and her mission belongs to the bishops.
As he had mentioned to Vanessa, they needed a really good blow to agitate the sea, stir up its bed and move larger objects to the surface.
If frozen, thaw out and agitate thoroughly to return to normal state before use.
A heated argument and a fistfight broke out whereupon the student council began to agitate for the transfer of seven of the staff involved.

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