Agitate vs Unnerve - What's the difference?
agitate | unnerve |
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 deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble.
To upset.
As verbs the difference between agitate and unnerve
is that agitate is to move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel while unnerve is to deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble.agitate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(agitat)- ``Winds . . . agitate the air.'' --Cowper.
- The mind of man is agitated by various passions. --Johnson.
Synonyms
* move, shake, excite, rouse, disturb, distract, revolve, discuss, debate, canvassExternal links
* * * ----unnerve
English
Verb
(unnerv)- to unnerve the arm
- I was greatly unnerved by this.
