agitate
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- (transitive) If you agitate someone, you make them feel troubled or nervous.
- If something is agitated, it moves with a violent, irregular action.
- The wind agitates the sea
- To agitate water in a vessel
- (transitive) If someone is agitated, they are disturbed or excited over something.
- He was greatly agitated by the news.