Agitated vs Shaken - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between agitated and shaken

is that agitated is (agitate) while shaken is .

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(agitate)

(Webster 1913)

(agitat)

To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

``Winds . . . agitate the air.'' --Cowper.

(rare) To move or actuate.

:(Thomson)

To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.

The mind of man is agitated by various passions. --Johnson.

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.

* move, shake, excite, rouse, disturb, distract, revolve, discuss, debate, canvass

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