different between agitate vs disorder

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Latin agitatus, past participle of agitare (“to put in motion”), from agere (“to move”). Compare with French agiter. See act, agent.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?æ.d??.te?t/

Verb

agitate (third-person singular simple present agitates, present participle agitating, simple past and past participle agitated)

1. (transitive) To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person). [from 16th c.]

2. (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake. [from 16th c.]
   • 1830, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford

     It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To set in motion; to actuate. [16th–18th c.]
4. (transitive, now rare) To discuss or debate. [from 16th c.]
   • 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:

     Your speech at the time a bill for the regency was agitated now lies before me.

5. (transitive, now rare) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to consider, to devise. [from 17th c.]

Synonyms

• (discuss actively): discuss, debate, canvass

• move, shake, excite, rouse, disturb, distract, revolve

Antonyms

• (stir up): appease, calm, quieten

Related terms

• agitation
• agitator
• agitatee
• agitable
• inagitable

Translations

Further reading

• agitate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• agitate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• agitate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Esperanto

Adverb

agitate

1. present adverbial passive participle of agiti

Ido

Verb

agitate

1. adverbial present passive participle of agitar

Italian

Adjective

agitate f

1. feminine plural of agitato

Anagrams

• gattaie

Latin

Verb

agit?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of agit?

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English, from Latin agitatus. Cognate with English agitate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d??tet/

Verb

agitate (third-person singular present agitates, present participle agitatin, past agitatit, past participle agitate)

1. to agitate

References

• “agitate” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary^[1], 2016.

English

Alternative forms

• disordre (obsolete)

Etymology

From dis- +? order. Middle English disordeine, from Old French desordainer, from Medieval Latin disordinare.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s???d?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?s????d?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)
• Hyphenation: dis?or?der

Noun

disorder (countable and uncountable, plural disorders)

1. Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.

2. A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.

3. (medicine, countable) A physical or mental malfunction.

Synonyms

• (absence of order): chaos, entropy; see also Thesaurus:disorder
• (disturbance of civic peace): See also Thesaurus:riot

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

disorder (third-person singular simple present disorders, present participle disordering, simple past and past participle disordered)

1. (transitive) To throw into a state of disorder.
2. (transitive) To knock out of order or sequence.

Translations

Anagrams

• disordre, sordider