Agitate

1. v. t. To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
2. v. t. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
3. v. t. To move or actuate.
4. v. t. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
5. v. t. To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.