Agitate crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 letters

This curated set of answers for “Agitate” is based on reliable puzzle completions. Each entry shown was accepted by editors and solvers alike when similar clues appeared in the past.

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Synonyms and Definitions

RILE

• Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, roil, vex
• Definition: Provoke irritation in; unsettle, particularly through small annoyances.

DISTURB

• Synonyms: commove, interrupt, raise up, shake up, stir up, touch, trouble, upset

ROIL

• Synonyms: boil, churn, moil, rile
• Definition: become upset

STIR

• Synonyms: ado, arouse, bring up, budge, bustle, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, excite, flurry, fuss, hustle, invoke, put forward, raise, shake, shift, splash, stimulate
• Definition: A notable or dramatic news event that only lasts for a short period of time.

PERTURB

• Synonyms: cark, derange, disorder, disquiet, distract, throw out of kilter, unhinge
• Definition: Create anxiety or unease in someone, or make them feel worried or alarmed.

FLUSTER

• Synonyms: perturbation

UNSETTLE

• Synonyms: enervate, faze, unnerve

EXCITE

• Synonyms: charge, charge up, energise, energize, rouse, sex, stir, turn on, wind up
• Definition: Stimulate or provoke a feeling

SHAKEUP

• Synonyms: reorganisation, reorganization, shake-up

UPSET

• Synonyms: bowl over, broken, confused, derangement, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disordered, disquieted, distressed, disturb, disturbance, disturbed, knock over, overthrow, overturn, overturned, swage, tip over, tump over, turn over, turnover, untune, upturned, worried
• Definition: a distressed and anxious state of mind

SHAKE

• Synonyms: didder, escape from, handclasp, handshake, handshaking, judder, milk shake, milkshake, rock, shake off, shingle, shiver, sway, throw off, tremble, trill, wag, waggle

CHURN

• Synonyms: butter churn

FAN

• Synonyms: buff, devotee, lover, rooter, sports fan, winnow
• Definition: an apparatus that generates airflow through the motion of one or more surfaces

ROUSE

• Synonyms: awaken, bestir, drive out, force out, rout out, wake, wake up, waken
• Definition: Start to be active

FUSS

• Synonyms: bicker, bickering, dither, flap, fret, hassle, mother, niggle, overprotect, pettifoggery, pother, spat, squabble, tiff, tizzy
• Definition: a heightened state of unrest