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What does agitate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word agitate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action
  2. (intransitive, rare) To move or actuate.
  3. (transitive) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb
  4. (transitive) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate
  5. (transitive) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot
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They agitate for power on the clericalist assumption that the Church and her mission belongs to the bishops.
I can agitate against my government, and if she does not fulfill her pledge, I shall have and feel the moral support of the entire world.
As he had mentioned to Vanessa, they needed a really good blow to agitate the sea, stir up its bed and move larger objects to the surface.
But if the folks who take cinema seriously were so willing to agitate against colorization, where are they now?
A heated argument and a fistfight broke out whereupon the student council began to agitate for the transfer of seven of the staff involved.
When you agitate the contents with a swirling motion, it will feel as if there were liquid in the pan until all the gases have been given off.

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