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agitator Definition

agi·ta·tor (aji tāt′ər)

noun

  1. a person who tries to stir up people in support of a cause: often used in an unfavorable sense
  2. an apparatus for shaking or stirring, as in a washing machine

agitator Synonyms

agitator

n.

instigator, fomenter, reformer, revolutionary, radical, revisionist, anarchist, rabble-rouser, demagogue, dogmatist, malcontent, disrupter, heretic, fighter, propagandist, ringleader, stormy petrel, zealous advocate, firebrand, incendiary, soapbox orator, active supporter, active partisan, ardent champion, exciter of public debate, troublemaker, agent, provocateur, agent provocateur (both French), organizer, sans-culotte, dissident, fifth columnist*; see also conservative, radical, rebel 1.

agitator Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • send: They sent agitators into action who created confusion and tried to provoke mass disorder.
  • become: As early as 1894, when he was twenty-four, Lenin had become a revolutionary agitator and a convinced Marxist.
  • work: By the end of the decade a network of working class agitators and organizers existed across the industrial towns and cities of Britain.
  • use: It is dissolved in the alcohol using a standard agitator or mixer.

Adjective modifier

  • socialist: I was the biggest Socialist agitator in the town!
  • political: And at the same time he was a political agitator and peace activist.
  • outside: In the deep south they were vilified as " outside agitators " , as tho they had no business to be there.
  • professional: In 1971, the professional agitator, Saul Alinsky wrote Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals.
  • communist: Verbally I was accused of being a communist agitator.

Modifies a noun

  • cam: Crop can then build up in the plenum chamber and block the cast agitator cam race, causing it to shatter expensively!
  • shaft: This zone decreased in size and moved toward the agitator shaft with increase of fill.

Noun used with modifier

  • Bolshevik: Upper class circles imagined that the country was overrun by Bolshevik agitators.
  • wing: Right wing agitators were on their way to attack the venue, presumably with some determination given the precautions that were now in hand.
  • army: He served in the New Model Army and became involved with army Agitators during 1647.
  • class: By the end of the decade a network of working class agitators and organizers existed across the industrial towns and cities of Britain.
  • gangster: The violence is thrown in more liberally, much like in Takashi Miike's later gangster epic Agitator.
  • epic: The violence is thrown in more liberally, much like in Takashi Miike's later gangster epic Agitator.

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