Synonyms for Give a hard time:

• v.

  •aggravate (verb)
  • pester,
  • dog,
  • hack,
  • nag,
  • exasperate,
  • be on the back of,
  • be at,
  • irritate,
  • get on one's nerves,
  • pick on,
  • tease,
  • give a hard time,
  • vex,
  • needle,
  • irk,
  • bother,
  • drive up the wall,
  • bug,
  • get to,
  • peeve,
  • get,
  • pique,
  • grate,
  • wig,
  • provoke,
  • nettle,
  • gall.
  •annoy (verb)
  • aggravate.
  •badger (verb)
  • harass.
  •be or make very upset (verb)
  • torment.
  •beset (verb)
  • embarrass,
  • attack,
  • storm,
  • encompass,
  • give the needle,
  • entangle,
  • harry,
  • badger,
  • compass,
  • encircle,
  • give a bad time,
  • overrun,
  • nudge,
  • besiege,
  • environ,
  • fall on,
  • ride,
  • invade,
  • surround,
  • perplex,
  • beleaguer,
  • start in on,
  • girdle,
  • bedevil,
  • ring,
  • aggress,
  • fall upon,
  • assail,
  • strike,
  • infest,
  • enclose,
  • give one the business,
  • put the squeeze on,
  • hassle,
  • jump on one's case.
  •bother, trouble (verb)
  • inconvenience,
  • upset.
  •bother, worry (verb)
  • trouble.
  •chide (verb)
  • rate,
  • speak to,
  • admonish,
  • find fault,
  • castigate,
  • take down a peg,
  • call down,
  • lesson,
  • flay,
  • slap on the wrist,
  • scold,
  • tick off,
  • condemn,
  • upbraid,
  • take down,
  • exprobate,
  • reprove,
  • monish,
  • call on the carpet,
  • rebuke,
  • berate,
  • blame,
  • reprimand,
  • censure,
  • talk to,
  • reprehend,
  • tell off,
  • check,
  • reproach.
  •criticize, lecture (verb)
  • chide.
  •distress (verb)
  • discombobulate,
  • depress,
  • grieve,
  • desolate,
  • aggrieve,
  • strap,
  • strain,
  • disturb,
  • nit-pick,
  • agonize,
  • stress,
  • make it tough for,
  • weigh,
  • torture,
  • pain,
  • injure,
  • burn up,
  • push,
  • push buttons,
  • disquiet,
  • hound,
  • try,
  • wound,
  • ail,
  • sadden,
  • rack,
  • afflict,
  • do a number on,
  • oppress,
  • break,
  • be on one's case,
  • miff,
  • plague,
  • hurt.
  •embarrass (verb)
  • faze,
  • catch one short,
  • distract,
  • make a monkey of,
  • dumbfound,
  • put in a spot,
  • fluster,
  • nonplus,
  • hang up,
  • shame,
  • put in a hole,
  • discountenance,
  • puzzle,
  • disconcert,
  • abash,
  • agitate,
  • annoy,
  • chagrin,
  • mortify,
  • put out of countenance,
  • show up,
  • stun,
  • bewilder,
  • discompose,
  • throw into a tizzy,
  • perturb,
  • discomfit,
  • rattle,
  • put on the spot,
  • distress,
  • throw,
  • confuse.
  •harass (verb)
  • persecute,
  • exhaust,
  • work on,
  • worry,
  • gnaw,
  • heckle,
  • raid,
  • tire,
  • despoil,
  • bullyrag,
  • macerate,
  • foray,
  • maraud,
  • weary,
  • rattle one's cage,
  • intimidate,
  • noodge,
  • fatigue,
  • jerk around,
  • bait.
  •henpeck (verb)
  • bully,
  • hector,
  • carp,
  • fuss.
  •incommode (verb)
  • dis comforts,
  • dis-comforted,
  • in-commodes,
  • dis comforted,
  • dis-comforts,
  • dis-comforting,
  • dis comfort,
  • in commode,
  • in commodes,
  • dis comforting,
  • in-commode,
  • dis-comfort.
  •inconvenience (verb)
  • interfere,
  • meddle,
  • put to trouble,
  • disrupt,
  • give trouble,
  • disoblige,
  • discommode,
  • make it tough.
  •irk (verb)
  • incommode,
  • put out,
  • rile,
  • abrade,
  • fret,
  • rasp,
  • make waves,
  • get on nerves,
  • ruffle.
  •kid around (verb)
  • goad,
  • rag,
  • razz,
  • taunt,
  • ridicule,
  • mock,
  • roast,
  • rib,
  • banter,
  • chaff,
  • josh,
  • fool around,
  • lead on.
  •nag (verb)
  • carp at,
  • Egged,
  • carped at,
  • carping at,
  • Egging,
  • Henpeck,
  • carps at,
  • taking out on,
  • took out on,
  • taking it out on,
  • takes it out on,
  • took it out on,
  • takes out on,
  • take it out on,
  • take out on.
  •pique (verb)
  • dis-pleasing,
  • getting a rise out of,
  • gets rise out of,
  • dis please,
  • fires up,
  • fire up,
  • ex cite,
  • gat a rise out of,
  • dis pleases,
  • get a rise out of,
  • in-censed,
  • in censes,
  • gat rise out of,
  • goosed,
  • in-censing,
  • get under skin,
  • gotten rise out of,
  • ex-cites,
  • get rise out of,
  • goosing,
  • dis pleasing,
  • give the business,
  • ex cited,
  • gotten a rise out of,
  • in cense,
  • ex citing,
  • getting rise out of,
  • ex-cited,
  • got a rise out of,
  • got rise out of,
  • dis-pleases,
  • in-censes,
  • gooses,
  • dis-pleased,
  • in-cense,
  • in censed,
  • firing up,
  • ex cites,
  • dis pleased,
  • ex-cite,
  • dis-please,
  • gets a rise out of.
  •plague; hem in (verb)
  • beset.
  •tease (verb)
  • spoofing,
  • swiped at,
  • send up,
  • teasing,
  • spoofed,
  • swiping at,
  • jives,
  • swipe at,
  • sends up,
  • jiving,
  • jive,
  • sent up,
  • sending up,
  • swipes at.
  •torment (verb)
  • ex-cruciate,
  • drave bananas,
  • puts through wringer,
  • mis treating,
  • rubbing salt in wound,
  • mis treats,
  • play cat and mouse,
  • drive bananas,
  • ex cruciate,
  • mis treat,
  • rubbed salt in wound,
  • playing cat mouse,
  • playing cat and mouse,
  • drove bananas,
  • mis-treat,
  • rub salt wound,
  • plays cat mouse,
  • played cat mouse,
  • rub salt in wound,
  • plays cat and mouse,
  • driving bananas,
  • rubs salt in wound,
  • mis-treats,
  • drives bananas,
  • put through wringer,
  • boned,
  • mis-treated,
  • Boning,
  • putting through wringer,
  • played cat and mouse,
  • mis treated,
  • rubbed salt wound,
  • rubs salt wound,
  • play cat mouse,
  • rubbing salt wound.
  •trouble (verb)
  • made a scene,
  • making fuss,
  • stir up,
  • imposed on,
  • flip out,
  • making a scene,
  • troubling,
  • imposing on,
  • imposes on,
  • stirs up,
  • make scene,
  • makes fuss,
  • impose on,
  • makes scene,
  • makes a fuss,
  • stirring up,
  • make fuss,
  • made a fuss,
  • making a fuss,
  • made fuss,
  • stirred up,
  • troubled,
  • make a fuss,
  • psychs,
  • making scene,
  • made scene,
  • makes a scene,
  • psyching,
  • make a scene.
  •upset (verb)
  • dis maying,
  • dis-mayed,
  • dis may,
  • de-ranges,
  • in capacitate,
  • keying up,
  • throw balance,
  • in disposed,
  • de ranging,
  • dis-mays,
  • un nerves,
  • threw balance,
  • adjy,
  • Pothering,
  • un-settle,
  • un hinges,
  • de-range,
  • de ranges,
  • un-hinging,
  • Pothered,
  • in-dispose,
  • in-disposed,
  • in disposes,
  • un settles,
  • dis mayed,
  • up-sets,
  • throwing off balance,
  • rock boat,
  • un nerved,
  • un-nerve,
  • un settling,
  • un hinging,
  • un-hinge,
  • in capacitates,
  • keyed up,
  • key up,
  • un nerving,
  • up sets,
  • threw off balance,
  • un-settling,
  • dis mays,
  • in-capacitating,
  • adjied,
  • adjying,
  • de-ranging,
  • un settle,
  • un hinge,
  • indisposes,
  • throw off balance,
  • dis-may,
  • de-ranged,
  • in-disposing,
  • adjies,
  • in-disposes,
  • un-nerving,
  • indispose,
  • de range,
  • un hinged,
  • keys up,
  • un-settled,
  • throwing balance,
  • up-set,
  • Indisposing,
  • throws off balance,
  • un nerve,
  • in-capacitated,
  • in disposing,
  • up setting,
  • in dispose,
  • in capacitated,
  • un-hinges,
  • up-setting,
  • un settled,
  • up set,
  • de ranged,
  • throws balance,
  • in-capacitate,
  • dis-maying,
  • un-hinged,
  • in capacitating.
  •vex (verb)
  • got in hair,
  • got one's hair,
  • gets one hair,
  • getting hair,
  • gets ones hair,
  • get in ones hair,
  • gets one's hair,
  • getting one hair,
  • gets in one hair,
  • got hair,
  • get under one skin,
  • grating on,
  • get hair,
  • gat one hair,
  • gets in hair,
  • gotten in one hair,
  • gotten in one's hair,
  • gets in one's hair,
  • get one's hair,
  • grates on,
  • gat ones hair,
  • got one hair,
  • get in one's hair,
  • gotten hair,
  • get in hair,
  • get in one hair,
  • getting in one's hair,
  • gotten one's hair,
  • gotten in ones hair,
  • gotten in hair,
  • gotten ones hair,
  • gotten one hair,
  • get under ones skin,
  • grated on,
  • getting in hair,
  • get one hair,
  • getting in ones hair,
  • grate on,
  • gets hair,
  • getting in one hair,
  • gat in hair,
  • got in one hair,
  • get ones hair,
  • gat in one hair,
  • gat in one's hair,
  • got in one's hair,
  • getting ones hair,
  • gat hair,
  • gat one's hair,
  • gets in ones hair,
  • got ones hair,
  • gat in ones hair,
  • got in ones hair,
  • getting one's hair.

• Other synonyms:

  •aggravate
  • Bumming,
  • Hacking,
  • getting to,
  • wigging,
  • irritates,
  • Nettles,
  • wigged,
  • needling,
  • gets to,
  • Bummed,
  • got to,
  • Hacked.
  •beset
  • Girdled,
  • fell upon,
  • Infesting,
  • ridden,
  • rung,
  • put squeeze on,
  • start on,
  • fell on,
  • be set,
  • Girdling,
  • encircled,
  • infests,
  • over-run,
  • over-runs.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • lambaste,
  • kid around.

Antonyms for Give a hard time:

• v.

  • aggravate
    gladden, make happy, appease, soften, mollify.
  • chide
    compliment, laud, praise.
  • distress
    calm, comfort, assist, soothe, help.
  • embarrass
    please.
  • harass
    aid, facilitate, support.
  • inconvenience
    benefit, be convenient.
  • irk
    delight.