Irritate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To rouse to impatience or anger; annoy: a loud bossy voice that irritates listeners. See Synonyms at annoy.
  • v. To chafe or inflame.
  • v. Physiology To cause physiological activity or response in (an organ or tissue), as by application of a stimulus.
  • verb-intransitive. To be a cause of impatience or anger.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
  • v. To introduce irritability.
  • v. To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
  • v. To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To render null and void.
  • v. To increase the action or violence of; to heighten excitement in; to intensify; to stimulate.
  • v. To excite anger or displeasure in; to provoke; to tease; to exasperate; to annoy; to vex.
  • v. To produce irritation in; to stimulate; to cause to contract. See Irritation, n., 2.
  • v. To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret
  • adj. Excited; heightened.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To excite to resentment or anger; annoy; vex; exasperate: as, to be irritated by an officious or a tedious person.
  • To excite to automatic action by external agency, as organic tissue; produce motion, contraction, or inflammation in by stimulation: as, to irritate the skin by chafing or the nerves by teasing.
  • To give greater force or energy to; excite.
  • Synonyms Provoke, Incense, etc. (see exasperate); fret, chafe, nettle, sting, annoy, gall, inflame, excite, anger, enrage.
  • Excited; exasperated; intensified.
  • To render null and void.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus
  • v. excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame
  • v. cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
  • Antonym
    please   
    Verb Form
    irritated    irritates    irritating   
    Cross Reference
    exasperate    peeve    disturb   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    intensify    stimulate    provoke    tease    exasperate    annoy    vex    fret    excited    heightened   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    annoy    unpleasant    Embarrass    disturb    uncomfortable    frustrate    tiresome    ridiculous    depress    excite