agitate

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Notwithstanding the intial "What the heck does that even mean" reaction this was all Obama was taught agitate, agitate, agitate.

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  1. transitive verb To cause to move with violence or sudden force.
  2. transitive verb To upset; disturb: was agitated by the alarming news.
  3. transitive verb To arouse interest in (a cause, for example) by use of the written or spoken word; debate.
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  • Those in trouble will agitate, and you will get your prescribed policy, at the cost of those who are too diffuse to protest. —  Center for American Progress Action Fund
  • Notwithstanding the intial "What the heck does that even mean" reaction this was all Obama was taught agitate, agitate, agitate. —  RedState
  • To exchange experiences, to reflect and agitate are all essential ingredients for a stronger, more vibrant class struggle anarchist movement in the future. —  Indymedia Ireland
  • One of Alinsky's key precepts it to agitate, agitate, agitate, and stoke so much anger in the community to be "organized" that the agitator does not need to be a "leader" —  UNCoRRELATED
  • Younge urged residents who become aware of such abuses of power by judges and other elected decision-makers to "agitate, agitate, agitate." —  Ottaway Online Editors
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin agitāre, agitāt-, frequentative of agere, to drive, do; see ag- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin agitatus, past participle of agitare, drive, move, arouse, excite, agitate, freq. of agere, drive, move, do: see agent and act.
 

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