vt to move or actuate.
2. agitate ·vt to stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
3. agitate ·vt to discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.
4. agitate ·vt to move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
5. agitate ·vt to revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.