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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bother, disturb |
| Synonyms: | abrade, annoy, badger, chafe, gall, get on someone, harass, irk, irritate, needle, nettle, pester, plague, provoke, vex |
| Notes: | a bug is a particular kind of insect, specifically belonging to the order Hemiptera (tough leathery forewings attached to the body - like ladybugs, beetles) while insects generally belong to the class Insecta, which have bodies in three segments, usually two pairs or wings and three pairs of legs (like bees, mosquitoes); spiders are not technically insects because they have four pairs of legs insect (from Latin animal insectum) literally meant 'divided animal' or 'cut up or into' from the segments of its body (head, thorax, abdomen) - the common word being 'bug'; insect is any of an extremely large group of small invertebrate animals - and most undergo metamorphosis while bug denotes a special group of insects with beaklike sucking mouth parts and partly membranous forewings |
| Antonyms: | not bother |
| Main Entry: | disturb |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bother, upset |
| Synonyms: | afflict, agitate, ail, alarm, amaze, annoy, arouse, astound, badger, burn up, complicate, confound, confuse, depress, discompose, dishearten, disrupt, distract, distress, excite, fluster, frighten, gall, grieve, harass, interfere, interrupt, intrude, irk, irritate, make uneasy, molest, muddle, outrage, pain, perplex, perturb, pester, pique, plague, provoke, puzzle, rattle, rouse, ruffle, shake, shake up, startle, tire, trouble, unhinge, unnerve, unsettle, vex, worry |
| Notes: | disturb is based on Latin turba 'tumult' and disturb applies better to physical agitation and perturb to mental agitation |
| Antonyms: | appease, calm, comfort, pacify, quiet, reassure, soothe |
| Main Entry: | elicit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | draw out |
| Synonyms: | arm-twist, badger, bite*, bring, bring forth, bring out, bring to light, call forth, cause, derive, educe, evince, evoke, evolve, exact, extort, extract, fetch, give rise to, milk, obtain, put muscle on, put the arm on, rattle, shake, shake down, squeeze, wrest, wring |
| Notes: | elicit means to call forth emotions, feelings, and responses or to bring out or draw out, while illicit means contrary to or forbidden by law - unlawful |
| Antonyms: | cover, hide, keep, repress, supress |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extortion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blackmail; cheating |
| Synonyms: | arm, badger, bite, coercion, compulsion, demand, exaction, force, fraud, oppression, payoff, payola, pressure, protection, racket, rapacity, shake, shakedown, squeeze, stealing, swindle, theft |
| Main Entry: | harry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pester, annoy |
| Synonyms: | attack, badger, bedevil, beleaguer, chivy, depredate, devastate, disturb, fret, gnaw, harass, hassle, irk, irritate, lay waste, molest, persecute, perturb, pillage, plague, plunder, ravage, sack, tease, torment, trouble, upset, vex, worry |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, help, support |
| Main Entry: | hassle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bother, harass |
| Synonyms: | annoy, argue, argufy, badger, bedevil, beleaguer, bicker, dispute, dun, harry, hound, pester, plague, quibble, squabble, worry, wrangle |
| Antonyms: | agree, concur, make peace |
| Main Entry: | heckle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | jeer |
| Synonyms: | badger, bait, bother, bully, chivy, dis, discomfit, disconcert, disrupt, disturb, embarrass, faze, gibe, hound, interrupt, pester, plague, rattle, ride*, ridicule, shout at, taunt, tease, torment, worry |
| Antonyms: | encourage, help, promote, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | henpeck |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | nag |
| Synonyms: | badger, berate, bother, bug*, bully, carp, fuss, give a hard time, harass, hector, hound, intimidate, irritate, needle, pester, pick on, ride, scold, torment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | importune |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demand, insist |
| Synonyms: | appeal, ask, badger, beg, beseech, beset, besiege, con*, crave, dun, egg on, entreat, goose, harass, hound, implore, invoke, nag, persuade, pester, plague, plead, pray, press, sell, solicit, supplicate, urge, work on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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