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

  1. 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"

  2. Agitate as a verb (intransitive, rare):

    To move or actuate.

  3. Agitate as a verb (transitive):

    To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb

    Examples:

    "He was greatly agitated by the news."

  4. Agitate as a verb (transitive):

    To discuss with great earnestness; to debate

    Examples:

    "to agitate a controversial subject"

  5. 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"

  1. 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."

  2. 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."

  3. Debate as a noun (uncountable):

    Discussion of opposing views.

    Examples:

    "There has been considerable debate concerning exactly how to format these articles."

  4. 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.

  5. Debate as a noun (obsolete):

    Strife, discord.

  1. Debate as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.

  2. Debate as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To fight.

  3. Debate as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To engage in combat for; to strive for.

  4. Debate as a verb (transitive):

    To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide

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