Synonyms:
agitate, foment, stir_up
Meaning: try to stir up public opinion
Synonyms:
agitate, rouse, turn_on, charge, commove, excite, charge_up
Meaning: cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
Usage examples
The measure once passed, and the Compromise repealed, the first natural impulse was to combine, organize, and agitate for its restoration.
For recreation he could twiddle his thumbs and speculate on the thoughts which must agitate the minds of the generals. Also, he was drilled and drilled and reviewed, and drilled and drilled and reviewed.
Some of the leading politicians, exaggerating the extent of this desire, imagined they saw in it a means of personal advancement, and began to agitate the question of a convention to amend the Constitution.
Undoubtedly there are other elements in human progress; but in the multitude of hidden causes which agitate nations, there is none more powerful or constant, none less obscure, than the periodical explosions of the proletariat against property.