agitate
a juh tayt
- v try to stir up public opinion
- v cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- v 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
- v move very slightly
- v move or cause to move back and forth
- v change the arrangement or position of
- China watchers say the Me generation's reluctance to agitate for reform is driven in part by a reluctance to tarnish China's moment in the sun.
- Pro: Knows how to get attention for himself and agitate the United States like no world leader since Castro.
- Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov, known by his revolutionary nom de guerre, Lenin, inspired a small cadre of Communist intellectuals to agitate amongst the workers and soldiers of Petrograd .