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Synonyms and Antonyms of agitates
- there's no need to agitate the patient about little things
ails, alarms (also alarums), bothers, concerns, derails, discomforts, discomposes, dismays, disquiets, distempers, distracts, distresses, disturbs, exercises, flurries, frazzles, freaks (out), fusses, hagrides, perturbs, undoes, unhinges, unsettles, upsets, weirds out, worries
aggravates, angers, annoys, bugs, chafes, chivies (or chivvies), exasperates, frets, galls, gets, grates, harasses, harries, irks, irritates, nettles, peeves, pesters, piques, puts off, puts out, riles, vexes
abashes, confounds, confuses, discomfits, disconcerts, discountenances, embarrasses, fazes, flusters, jars, mortifies, nonpluses (or nonplusses), rattles, shakes up
daunts, demoralizes, discourages, disheartens, dispirits, unnerves
calms, composes, quiets, settles, soothes, tranquilizes (also tranquillizes)
- set the washing machine so it will agitate for four minutes before going into the rinse cycle
- a question which has been agitated by the legislature time and time again
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