The difference between Agitate and Vex

When used as verbs, agitate means to cause to move with a violent, irregular action, whereas vex means to trouble aggressively, to harass.


Vex is also noun with the meaning: a trouble.

check bellow for the other definitions of Agitate and Vex

  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. Vex as a verb (transitive, now, _, rare):

    To trouble aggressively, to harass.

  2. Vex as a verb (transitive):

    To annoy, irritate.

    Examples:

    "Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his [[grade]]s."

  3. Vex as a verb (transitive):

    To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.

  4. Vex as a verb (transitive, rare):

    To twist, to weave.

  5. Vex as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To be irritated; to fret.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Chapman"

  6. Vex as a verb (transitive):

    To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

  1. Vex as a noun (Scotland, obsolete):

    A trouble.