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1. Troubled emotionally and usually deeply
   "agitated parents"
    
2. Physically disturbed or set in motion
   "the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled"

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

See also: amok, amuck, aroused, berserk, churned-up, churning, discomposed, distraught, emotional, excited, feverish, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, hectic, hysterical, impatient, jolted, overwrought, phrenetic, psychedelic, rippled, roiled, roiling, roily [N. Amer], ruffled, seething, shaken, stirred, tense, turbulent, turnt, unquiet, unsteady, wild-eyed, worked up, wrought-up

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

Antonym: calm down, unagitated

Encyclopedia: Agitated