agitating

4 definitions • 4 examples

present participle of

to make someone feel worried or angry:

I didn't want to agitate her by telling her.

to argue forcefully, especially in public, in order to achieve a particular type of change:

The unions continue to agitate for higher pay.

As a young man, he had agitated against the Vietnam war.

to shake a liquid:

Pour the powder into the solution and agitate it until the powder has dissolved.