DictionaryRoot: agitare
Latin
agitare
to keep in motion; stir up
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verb
agitate
AJ-ih-tayt/ˈædʒɪteɪt/
To stir something into unsettled motion or activity.
Etymology
Latin agitare pictures keeping something in constant motion. Applied to feelings, this becomes disturbance; applied to public questions, it becomes keeping an issue actively before people's minds.