agitate

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈæ.d͡ʒɪ.teɪt/    美 /ˈæ.d͡ʒɪ.teɪt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person). transitive
    — He was greatly agitated by the news.
  2. To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake. transitive
    — to agitate water in a vessel
  3. To participate in political agitation (sense 3).
    — NAMBLA is working to build a coalition of gay, lesbian, progressive and civil liberties groups to agitate against the increasing state attacks on gay men who associate with boys.
  4. To set in motion; to actuate. obsolete,transitive
  5. To discuss or debate. archaic,transitive
    — Your speech at the time a bill for the regency was agitated now lies before me.
  6. To mull over, or think deeply about; to consider, to devise. archaic,transitive
    — Politicians agitate desperate designs.

词形变化

agitates present,singular,third-person agitating participle,present agitated participle,past agitated past

词汇关系

衍生词
agitate the communicator circumagitate counteragitate overagitate reagitate
相关词
agitable agitant agitatee agitation agitational agitative agitator agitatory agitatrix inagitable

词源

From Middle English agitat(e) (“set in motion”), borrowed from Latin agitātus, perfect passive participle of agitō (“to put in motion”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), frequentative of agō (“to drive, move, push”), see -tō. Cognate with French agiter. See also act and agent.
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