Irrigate vs Agitate - What's the difference?
irrigate | agitate |
To supply farmland with water, by building ditches, pipes, etc.
To clean a wound with a fluid
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 irrigate and agitate
is that irrigate is to supply farmland with water, by building ditches, pipes, etc while agitate is to move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.irrigate
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agitate
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(agitat)- ``Winds . . . agitate the air.'' --Cowper.
- The mind of man is agitated by various passions. --Johnson.