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Meddle vs Agitate - What's the difference?

meddle | agitate |

As verbs the difference between meddle and agitate

is that meddle is (obsolete) to mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend while agitate is to move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

meddle

English

Verb

(meddl)
  • (obsolete) To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
  • *:he cut a locke of all their heare, / Which medling with their bloud and earth, he threw / Into the graue.
  • *:
  • *:But after god came to Adam and bad hym knowe his wyf flesshly as nature requyred / Soo lay Adam with his wyf vnder the same tree / and anone the tree whiche was whyte and ful grene as ony grasse and alle that came oute of hit / and in the same tyme that they medled to gyders there was Abel begoten / thus was the tree longe of grene colour
  • *, II.5.1.v:
  • *:Take a ram's head that never meddled with an ewe, cut off at a blow, and the horns only taken away, boil it well, skin and wool together.
  • (senseid)To interfere (in) or (with); to concern oneself with unduly.
  • *Bible, 2 Kings xiv.10:
  • *:Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt?
  • *John Locke
  • *:The civil lawyershave meddled in a matter that belongs not to them.
  • (obsolete) To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense.
  • *Tyndale
  • *:Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business.
  • :(Barrow)

    • Derived terms

    * meddlement * meddlesome * meddler

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    agitate

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (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.

    • Synonyms

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

    Related terms

    * agitation * agitator * agitatee * agitable * inagitable

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