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To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper.

In an agitated manner.

To agitate on all sides. Jer. Taylor.

To ask urgently. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To stir up; to agitate. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.

To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion. [Archaic] Carcyle.

To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient. Bp. Hall.

Glowing; agitated, as with heat.

In a flutter; agitated.

Capable of being agitated, or easily moved. [R.]

The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.

Tending to agitate.

One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.

Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty. The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Longfellow.

To agitate; to affect mentally. [Obs.] Milton.

To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate. Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation. I. Watts.

To put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to toss. "My betossed soul." Shak.

To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.

To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles. The milk that bubbled in the pail. Tennyson.

Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd. "A bustling wharf." Hawthorne.