Faze vs Agitate - What's the difference?
faze | agitate |
(informal) To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative), to perturb, to disconcert.
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.
As verbs the difference between faze and agitate
is that faze is (fazer) while agitate is to move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.faze
English
Alternative forms
* feazeVerb
(faz)- Jumping out of an airplane does not faze him, yet he is afraid to ride a roller coaster.
Usage notes
* Citations for in the start in 1830; usage was established by 1890. * The word phase is sometimes used incorrectly for ; they are distinct terms.References
agitate
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(agitat)- ``Winds . . . agitate the air.'' --Cowper.
- The mind of man is agitated by various passions. --Johnson.