Agitate vs Succuss - What's the difference?
agitate | succuss | Synonyms |
To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
(rare) To move or actuate.
:(Thomson)
To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.
:(Boyle)
To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
To shake with vigor.
(medical) specifically to shake a patient to detect fluids or air in the body.
Agitate is a synonym of succuss.
As verbs the difference between agitate and succuss
is that agitate is to move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel while succuss is to shake with vigor.agitate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(agitat)- ``Winds . . . agitate the air.'' --Cowper.
- The mind of man is agitated by various passions. --Johnson.