"agitate the communicator" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "agitates the communicator",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "agitating the communicator",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "agitated the communicator",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "agitated the communicator",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1857, William Wilson Dobie, Recollections of a Visit to Port-Phillip, Australia, in 1852-55, page 29",
          "text": "So Tom, Dick, and Harry were obliged to be in waiting on the Captain, who might agitate the communicator any minute, and woe be to him who was not ready to obey the summons.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1865, Bracebridge Hemyng, Butler Burke at Eton, page 251",
          "text": "Agitate the communicator, and send the slavey round to the stables.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1882, Harry Scott Barton, What I did in \"the Long\", page 17",
          "text": "So in we hopped, and he dropped us just outside their gate, and in we walked; and, having agitated the communicator, out comes an old lady, whom Henri tried to introduce himself to, but the old girl was awfully deaf, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ring a bell as a summons."
      ],
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        [
          "ring",
          "ring"
        ],
        [
          "bell",
          "bell"
        ],
        [
          "summons",
          "summons"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous, archaic) To ring a bell as a summons."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "agitate the communicator"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "agitates the communicator",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "agitating the communicator",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "agitated the communicator",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "agitated the communicator",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1857, William Wilson Dobie, Recollections of a Visit to Port-Phillip, Australia, in 1852-55, page 29",
          "text": "So Tom, Dick, and Harry were obliged to be in waiting on the Captain, who might agitate the communicator any minute, and woe be to him who was not ready to obey the summons.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1865, Bracebridge Hemyng, Butler Burke at Eton, page 251",
          "text": "Agitate the communicator, and send the slavey round to the stables.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1882, Harry Scott Barton, What I did in \"the Long\", page 17",
          "text": "So in we hopped, and he dropped us just outside their gate, and in we walked; and, having agitated the communicator, out comes an old lady, whom Henri tried to introduce himself to, but the old girl was awfully deaf, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ring a bell as a summons."
      ],
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        ],
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        ],
        [
          "summons",
          "summons"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous, archaic) To ring a bell as a summons."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "agitate the communicator"
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