agitator Definition
agi·ta·tor (aj′i tāt′ər)
noun
- a person who tries to stir up people in support of a cause: often used in an unfavorable sense
- an apparatus for shaking or stirring, as in a washing machine
agitator Synonyms
agitator
n.
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.

