Agitate vs Pacify - What's the difference?
agitate | pacify |
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.
To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.
To appease (someone).
As verbs the difference between agitate and pacify
is that agitate is to move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel while pacify is to bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.agitate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(agitat)- ``Winds . . . agitate the air.'' --Cowper.
- The mind of man is agitated by various passions. --Johnson.