Betekenis van agitate In het Nederlands

• 0 to make someone feel worried or angry:

  • I didn't want to agitate her by telling her.

• 1 to argue forcefully, especially in public, in order to achieve a particular type of change:

  • The unions continue to agitate for higher pay.

  • As a young man, he had agitated against the Vietnam war.

• 2 to shake a liquid:

  • Pour the powder into the solution and agitate it until the powder has dissolved.

• 3 to argue energetically, esp. in public, in order to achieve a particular type of change:

  • Telephone companies began to agitate for permission to compete in long distance services.

• 4 to make someone become nervous because of worry or fear that is difficult to control:

  • Any mention of his son agitated him.