Wiggle vs Agitate - What's the difference?
wiggle | agitate | Related terms |
(intransitive) To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; To shake or jiggle.
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.
Wiggle is a related term of agitate.
As verbs the difference between wiggle and agitate
is that wiggle is (intransitive) to move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; to shake or jiggle while agitate is to move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.As a noun wiggle
is a wiggling movement.wiggle
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Verb
- Her hips wiggle as she walks.
- The jelly wiggle s on the plate when you move it.
Derived terms
* get a wiggle on * wiggle room * wiggly English frequentative verbsagitate
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(agitat)- ``Winds . . . agitate the air.'' --Cowper.
- The mind of man is agitated by various passions. --Johnson.