Difference between Agitate and Shake

What is the difference between Agitate and Shake?

Agitate as a verb is to move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. while Shake as a verb is to cause (something) to move rapidly from side to side.

Agitate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. To move or actuate. --Thomson. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated. To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated. --Boyle. To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.

Shake

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of shaking something.A milkshake.Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.Shingle.A crack or splint in wood.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause (something) to move rapidly from side to side.To disturb emotionally; to shock.To lose, evade, or get rid of (something)To move from side to side.To shake hands.To dance.

Example sentence: First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

We hope you now know whether to use Agitate or Shake in your sentence.

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