English-Finnish translations for agitate

• hämmentää
  Äiti hämmensi puuroa kauhalla.
  Uusi tekniikka hämmentää vanhuksia.
• agitoida
  agitoida väkijoukkoa mellakoimaan
• kiihottaa
  Hän kiihotti kansaa kapinaan.
  Se kiihottaa ruokahalua.
• ravistella
• villitä

Definition of agitate

• To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb.
• To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake.
• To set in motion; to actuate.
• To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to consider, to devise.

Examples

• He was greatly agitated by the news
• the wind agitates the sea
• to agitate water in a vessel
• politicians agitate desperate designs

Related words

• agitated
• agitatedly
• drive wild; agitate
• get agitated