Harass vs Agitate - What's the difference?
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To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.
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To annoy endlessly or systematically; to molest.
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To put excessive burdens upon; to subject to anxieties.
(obsolete) devastation; waste
(obsolete) worry; harassment
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.
Harass is a related term of agitate.
As verbs the difference between harass and agitate
is that harass is to fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts 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 harass
is (obsolete) devastation; waste.harass
English
Verb
(es)- In my old home, I always knew that John and my master were my friends; but here, although in many ways I was well treated, I had no friend. York might have known, and very likely did know, how that rein harassed me; but I suppose he took it as a matter of course that could not be helped; at any rate nothing was done to relieve me.
- in the early 1940s.
Synonyms
* hassle * harry * chivy or chivvy * chevy or chevvy * beset * plague * molest * provokeDerived terms
* harasser * harassmentExternal links
* *Noun
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- (Byron)
agitate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(agitat)- ``Winds . . . agitate the air.'' --Cowper.
- The mind of man is agitated by various passions. --Johnson.