To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
To incite to action.
Of a feeling or emotion: to rise, begin to be felt.
To disturb the relative position of the particles of (a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
To begin to move, especially gently, from a still or unmoving position.
To bring into debate; to agitate.
To rise from sleep or unconsciousness.
To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.
The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
Jail; prison.
Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
To swipe.
To streak, to color in a swash.
To wade forcefully through liquid.
To fall violently or noisily.
To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
To swirl through liquid; to swish.
bold; dramatic.
Having pronounced swashes.
A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
A smooth stroke; a swish.
A wet splashing sound.
The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
A streak or patch.
A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
A swishing noise.
An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.