Definition of "agitate"

agitate

/ˈæ.d͡ʒɪ.teɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present agitates, present participle agitating, simple past and past participle agitated
1. (transitive) To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).
2. (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake.
  Quotations
  It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
  1830, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford
3. (transitive, obsolete) To set in motion; to actuate.
4. (transitive, now rare) To discuss or debate.
  Quotations
  Your speech at the time a bill for the regency was agitated now lies before me.
  1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men‎
5. (transitive, now rare) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to consider, to devise.