agitate
verb (used with object)
to move or force into violent, irregular action.
agitates
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present tense formof agitate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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And this is kind of a shame, because the story agitates the brain far more than it does the stomach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
Conversely, when researchers injected the rats with a substance that agitates the immune system, the inflammatory cytokine levels rapidly shot up.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024
Tinseltown, it seems, is in the midst of an AI boom — even as its creative class agitates for limits on how that technology gets deployed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
"The Duke" has its heart in the right place, too, championing a principled man who agitates against inequality.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2022
And then something else happens that agitates Helmuth, that makes him all the more determined to wake up the people of Germany.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
