Difference between Agitate and Foment

AGITATE vs FOMENT: NOUN

Move very slightly
Move or cause to move back and forth
Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
Try to stir up public opinion
Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
To move or actuate. --Thomson.
Change the arrangement or position of

To arouse interest in (a cause, for example) by use of the written or spoken word; discuss or debate.
To cause to move with violence or sudden force.
To stir up public interest in a cause.
To upset; disturb.

To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot.
To discuss with great earnestness; to debate.
To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb.
To move or actuate.
To move with a violent, irregular action

To arouse or incite (trouble, for example).
To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
To cherish with heat; to foster.
To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense.
To treat (the skin, for example) by fomentation.

To move or force into violent irregular action; shake or move briskly; excite physically: as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
To disturb, or excite into tumult; perturb.
To discuss: debate; call attention to by speech or writing: as, to agitate the question of free trade.
To consider on all sides; revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; plan.
Synonyms and To rouse, stir up, ruffle, discompose.5 and To canvass, deliberate upon.
To engage in agitation; arouse or attempt to arouse public interest, as in some political or social question: as, he set out to agitate in the country.
Be an advocate for
To move to and fro; impart regular motion to.
To move or actuate; maintain the action of.

To apply warm lotions to; bathe with warm medicated liquids or warm water.
To cherish with heat; encourage or promote the growth of by or as if by heat.
To encourage; abet; instigate or promote by incitement: commonly used in a bad sense: as, to foment discord.

Charge up, Shake up, Campaign, Charge, Shift, Shake, Crusade, Fight, Budge, Push, Excite, Rouse, Foment, Disturb, Stir

Stimulate, Kindle, Exacerbate, Heighten, Stir, Spark, Arouse, Inflame, Ignite, Stoke, Instigate, Provoke, Incite, Stir up, Agitate

Roil, Irk, Raise up, Commove, Campaign, Charge, Shift, Shake, Fight, Push, Excite, Rouse, Foment, Disturb, Stir

Promote, Fostering, Stimulate, Kindle, Exacerbate, Heighten, Stir, Spark, Arouse, Inflame, Ignite, Stoke, Instigate, Provoke, Agitate

Agitate any stored, reconstituted vaccine prior to administration.
UV rays and aggressors that agitate the complexion.
After waiting, agitate using a black emulsifying pad.
Agitate by hand to resuspend the cellulose beads.
Continuously agitate grout until grouting operations are complete.
By this time the agitate water had settled.
Agitate up to 750 mg specifically a day.
After any break in the sprayingoperation, agitate thoroughlybeforesprayingagain.
To drive or agitate with blasts of wind.
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.