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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | upset someone |
| Synonyms: | abrade, agitate, bother, displease, distress, disturb, gall, get on nerves, goad, harass, irk, irritate, nag, nettle, peeve, pique, provoke, rile, ruffle, torment, trouble, vex |
| Antonyms: | appease, pacify, placate, please |
| Main Entry: | grate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | irritate |
| Synonyms: | aggravate, annoy, burn, chafe, exasperate, fret, gall, get on one's nerves, irk, nettle, peeve, pique, provoke, rankle, rile, rub the wrong way, vex |
| Antonyms: | make happy, please |
| Main Entry: | haunt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | visit as a spirit |
| Synonyms: | agitate, agonize, annoy, appall, appear, be ever present, bedevil, beset, besiege, come back, disquiet, dwell, float, frighten, harass, harrow, hound, hover, infest, inhabit, intrude, madden, manifest, materialize, molest, nettle, obsess, overrun, permeate, pervade, pester, plague, possess, prey on, rack, reappear, recur, return, rise, spook, stay with, tease, terrify, terrorize, torment, trouble, vex, voodoo, walk, weigh on, worry |
| Main Entry: | irk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | aggravate; rub the wrong way |
| Synonyms: | abrade, annoy, bother, bug*, discommode, disturb, eat*, fret, gall, get on nerves, get to, give a hard time, harass, incommode, inconvenience, irritate, make waves, miff, nettle, peeve, provoke, put out, rasp, rile, ruffle, trouble, vex |
| Antonyms: | delight, please |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irritate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | upset, anger |
| Synonyms: | abrade, affront, aggravate, annoy, bother, bug*, burn*, chafe, confuse, distemper, disturb, drive up the wall, enrage, exasperate, fret, gall, get, get on nerves, get under skin, grate, harass, incense, inflame, infuriate, irk, madden, needle, nettle, offend, pain, peeve, pester, pique, provoke, put out, rankle, rasp, rattle, rile, roil, rub the wrong way, ruffle, sour, try, vex |
| Notes: | aggravate means 'to add to' an already troublesome or vexing matter or condition while irritate means 'to vex, annoy, or chafe' irritate means 'inflame' (originally 'excite, rouse'); aggravate means 'worsen' |
| Antonyms: | aid, assuage, delight, help, please |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jar |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | clash, disharmonize |
| Synonyms: | annoy, bicker, contend, disaccord, disagree, discompose, discord, grate, grind, interfere, irk, irritate, jangle, mismatch, nettle, oppose, outrage, quarrel, shock, wrangle |
| Antonyms: | agree, harmonize |
| Main Entry: | miff |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | annoy |
| Synonyms: | aggrieve, bother, displease, hurt, irk, irritate, nettle, offend, pester, pique, provoke, put out, resent, upset, vex |
| Antonyms: | appease, mollify, please |
| Main Entry: | needle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tease, annoy |
| Synonyms: | aggravate, badger, bait, bedevil, bother, examine, gnaw, goad, harass, hector, irk, irritate, nag, nettle, pester, plague, prick, prod, provoke, question, quiz, ride*, rile, ruffle, spur, sting, taunt, tweak*, worry |
| Antonyms: | praise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | offend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | displease, insult |
| Synonyms: | affront, aggrieve, anger, annoy, antagonize, be disagreeable, disgruntle, disgust, disoblige, distress, disturb, exasperate, fret, gall, horrify, hurt, irritate, jar, miff, nauseate, nettle, outrage, pain, pique, provoke, repel, repulse, rile, shock, sicken, sin, slight, slur, snub, sting, transgress, trespass, turn one off, upset, vex, wound, zing |
| Antonyms: | compliment, please |
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