hit where one lives

Strong matches

• abuse
• anger
• annoy
• confront
• criticize
• displease
• dispraise
• encounter
• face
• meet
• offend
• outrage
• pique
• provoke
• slander
• slight
• taunt
• vex

Weak matches

• dump on
• give a zinger
• give the cold shoulder
• put down

Strongest matches

• agitate
• bore
• bother
• displease
• disturb
• exasperate
• fire up
• gall
• irk
• peeve
• perturb
• rile
• trouble
• turn off
• vex
• worry

Strong matches

• abrade
• badger
• bedevil
• beleaguer
• break
• bug
• chafe
• distress
• get
• gnaw
• harass
• harry
• madden
• miff
• nag
• needle
• nettle
• nudge
• pester
• plague
• provoke
• ride
• ruffle
• tease

Weak matches

• ask for it
• be at
• be on the back of
• burn up
• egg on
• heat up
• henpeck
• make waves
• push button
• T-off
• tick off
• work on

Strongest matches

• annoy
• constrain
• injure
• punish
• sadden
• sting
• upset
• wound

Strong matches

• abuse
• afflict
• aggrieve
• burn
• chafe
• discomfit
• discommode
• displease
• distress
• excruciate
• faze
• grieve
• lambaste
• martyr
• martyrize
• prejudice
• torment
• torture
• try
• vex
• vitiate
• zing

Weak matches

• cut to the quick
• give no quarter
• go for jugular
• lay a bad trip on
• lean on
• put down
• put out
• thumb nose at
• work over

Strong matches

• ache
• afflict
• aggrieve
• agonize
• ail
• anguish
• annoy
• bite
• chafe
• chasten
• constrain
• convulse
• discomfort
• disquiet
• distress
• exasperate
• excruciate
• gall
• grieve
• gripe
• harass
• harm
• harrow
• hurt
• inflame
• injure
• irk
• irritate
• nick
• prick
• punish
• rack
• rile
• sadden
• smart
• sting
• strain
• stress
• suffer
• throb
• tingle
• torment
• torture
• upset
• vex
• worry
• wound

Weak match

• cut to the quick

Strongest matches

• aggravate
• anger
• enrage
• foment
• incite
• inflame
• infuriate
• irk
• irritate
• offend
• raise

Strong matches

• abet
• abrade
• affront
• annoy
• bother
• bug
• chafe
• exasperate
• exercise
• fret
• gall
• get
• grate
• incense
• insult
• madden
• nag
• perturb
• pique
• rile
• roil
• ruffle
• set
• upset
• vex

Weak matches

• get on one's nerves
• get under one's skin
• make blood boil
• make waves
• put out
• set on
• try one's patience
• whip up
• work into lather
• work up

Strong matches

• blacken
• blemish
• blister
• blot
• brand
• calumniate
• cap
• chop
• defame
• denigrate
• detract
• discredit
• disgrace
• insinuate
• libel
• malign
• miff
• offend
• push
• reproach
• roast
• scorch
• slander
• slight
• smear
• snub
• spatter
• stain
• traduce
• vilify
• zing

Weak matches

• blow off
• cut to the quick
• cut up
• dump on
• give a black eye
• kick in the teeth
• put down
• skin alive
• slap in the face
• tear down

Weak matches

• touch a nerve ending
• touch a sore spot