The difference between Agitate and Debate
When used as verbs, agitate means to cause to move with a violent, irregular action, whereas debate means to participate in a debate.
Debate is also noun with the meaning: an argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
check bellow for the other definitions of Agitate and Debate
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Agitate as a verb (transitive):
To cause to move with a violent, irregular action
Examples:
"the wind agitates the sea"
"to agitate water in a vessel"
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Agitate as a verb (intransitive, rare):
To move or actuate.
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Agitate as a verb (transitive):
To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb
Examples:
"He was greatly agitated by the news."
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Agitate as a verb (transitive):
To discuss with great earnestness; to debate
Examples:
"to agitate a controversial subject"
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Agitate as a verb (transitive):
To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot
Examples:
"politicians agitate desperate designs"
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Debate as a noun:
An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
Examples:
"After a four-hour debate, the committee voted to table the motion."
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Debate as a noun:
An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
Examples:
"The debate over the age of the universe is thousands of years old."
"There was a bit of a debate over who should pay for the damaged fence."
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Debate as a noun (uncountable):
Discussion of opposing views.
Examples:
"There has been considerable debate concerning exactly how to format these articles."
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Debate as a noun (frequently in the French form ''débat''):
A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.
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Debate as a noun (obsolete):
Strife, discord.
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Debate as a verb (ambitransitive):
To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
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Debate as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):
To fight.
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Debate as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To engage in combat for; to strive for.
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Debate as a verb (transitive):
To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide