The difference between Agitate and Discuss

When used as verbs, agitate means to cause to move with a violent, irregular action, whereas discuss means to converse or debate concerning a particular topic.


check bellow for the other definitions of Agitate and Discuss

  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. Discuss as a verb (transitive):

    To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.

    Examples:

    "Let's sit down and discuss this rationally."

    "I don't wish to discuss this further. Let's talk about something else."

  2. Discuss as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).

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

    To break to pieces; to shatter.

  4. Discuss as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To deal with, in eating or drinking.

  5. Discuss as a verb (transitive, legal):

    To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.

  6. Discuss as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.

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