v.
   - 
[often as adj. agitated]
 make troubled or nervous.
 - campaign to arouse public concern about an issue.
 - stir or disturb (a liquid) briskly.
 
 
  Derivative
  
    - agitatedly adv.
  - agitation n.
  - agitator n.
 
   
  Etymology
  ME (in the sense ‘drive away’): from L. agitat-, agitare ‘agitate, drive’, frequentative of agere ‘do, drive’.