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1. Try to stir up public opinion
   - foment, stir up
    
2. Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
   - rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up
    
3. Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
   "She is agitating for women's rights";
   - crusade, fight, press, campaign, push
    
4. Move very slightly
   "He agitated in his seat";
   - stir, shift, budge, scooch [informal]
    
5. Move or cause to move back and forth
   "The chemist agitated the flask vigorously";
   - shake
    
6. Change the arrangement or position of
   - vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up

Derived forms: agitating, agitates, agitated

Type of: advertise, advertize [US, non-standard], displace, disturb, flack [N. Amer, informal], move, promote, provoke, push, stimulate, trouble, upset

Antonym: calm down

Encyclopedia: Agitate