What is another word for irritate?

2046 synonyms found

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[ ˈɪɹɪtˌe͡ɪt], [ ˈɪɹɪtˌe‍ɪt], [ ˈɪ_ɹ_ɪ_t_ˌeɪ_t]

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n.
- drive someone mad.
- burn,
- erupt,
- anaphylactic shock,
- allergy,
- redden,
- hypersensitive,
- hypoallergenic,
- swell,
- allergen,
- intolerant,
- intolerance,
- allergic,
- anaphylaxis,
- antigen.
- feelings.
• annoy (noun)
- annoy.
• dissatisfy (noun)
- dissatisfy.
• get at (noun)
- get at.
• gravel (noun)
- gravel.
• irritate (noun)
- rag,
- nark.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- plague,
- feeling.
v.
• aggravate (verb)
- envenom,
- rankle,
- bait,
- arouse,
- pester,
- upset,
- badger.
• anger (verb)
- made sore,
- out rages,
- gotten mad,
- makes sore,
- out-rages,
- out raged,
- burns up,
- out-rage,
- lose one temper,
- out-raged,
- umbraging,
- boiled over,
- raises hell,
- out rage,
- got mad,
- umbraged,
- out raging,
- raised hell,
- out-raging,
- boils over,
- gat mad,
- lose ones temper,
- getting mad,
- steams up,
- gets mad,
- burnt up,
- making sore.
• antagonize (verb)
- counter-acted,
- worked against,
- counter acting,
- counter act,
- counter-acting,
- counter-act,
- counter acts,
- wrought against,
- works against,
- counter acted,
- working against,
- counter-acts.
• bedevil (verb)
- be devils,
- be-deviling,
- be deviling,
- be devil,
- be-devil,
- be devilling,
- be devilled,
- be-devils,
- be-devilling,
- be deviled,
- be-devilled,
- be-deviled.
• body (verb)
- irritate.
• bore (verb)
- talked one's ear off,
- is tedious,
- wert tedious,
- am tedious,
- dis-comforts,
- sends sleep,
- dis comforted,
- dis comfort,
- being tedious,
- bend one ear,
- talks ones ear off,
- talked ear off,
- talk ones ear off,
- dis-comfort,
- talk ear off,
- talking ones ear off,
- puts sleep,
- put sleep,
- dis-comforted,
- bent one's ear,
- talked ones ear off,
- dis-comforting,
- turns one off,
- bends ones ear,
- bending one ear,
- bend ear,
- bent ear,
- sending to sleep,
- turned one off,
- bending ear,
- was tedious,
- bends one's ear,
- bending ones ear,
- talking one ear off,
- send sleep,
- bended one ear,
- turning one off,
- dis comforts,
- bending one's ear,
- putting sleep,
- were tedious,
- sends to sleep,
- talk one ear off,
- talks one's ear off,
- talks ear off,
- bended ones ear,
- talking one's ear off,
- bend ones ear,
- talks one ear off,
- wast tedious,
- sending sleep,
- art tedious,
- bends one ear,
- sent sleep,
- dis comforting,
- talking ear off,
- talked one ear off,
- bended one's ear,
- bent one ear,
- are tedious,
- bent ones ear,
- bended ear,
- bends ear.
• bother (verb)
- dis-concerted,
- intruded up on,
- dis-gusted,
- in convenience,
- dis-concerts,
- intruded upon,
- dis-commode,
- dis gusts,
- dis concert,
- dis-concerting,
- dis-maying,
- dis-concert,
- grating on,
- in conveniences,
- intrudes upon,
- intrudes up on,
- dis quiet,
- dis gusting,
- dis gusted,
- dis-quieting,
- grates on,
- dis quieting,
- up-setting,
- dis-quieted,
- up sets,
- intruding up on,
- up-sets,
- dis concerted,
- dis-quiet,
- grated on,
- dis concerting,
- carping at,
- carped at,
- dis-mays,
- up setting,
- intrude up on,
- dis quiets,
- dis commode,
- dis mayed,
- carps at,
- dis quieted,
- dis-mayed,
- dis-commodes,
- dis may,
- in-conveniences,
- dis-gusting,
- dis mays,
- dis commodes,
- dis-may,
- dis-gust,
- dis-gusts,
- up-set,
- dis concerts,
- intruding upon,
- dis maying,
- in-convenience,
- dis-quiets,
- dis gust.
• bug (verb)
- getting on someone,
- gets someone,
- gotten on someone,
- gotten someone,
- getting someone,
- got someone,
- gat on someone,
- gat someone,
- got on someone,
- gets on someone.
• chafe (verb)
- resist,
- rub,
- wear,
- abrade,
- scrub,
- grind.
• chagrin (verb)
- dis graced,
- dis-gracing,
- dis-grace,
- dis gracing,
- dis satisfy,
- dis comfit,
- dis satisfies,
- dis comfits,
- dis graces,
- dis-comfit,
- dis-graces,
- dis satisfied,
- dis-graced,
- dis-satisfy,
- dis grace,
- dis-satisfied,
- dis-satisfies,
- dis-comfits,
- dis satisfying,
- dis-satisfying.
• discompose (verb)
- dis-composed,
- un-hinged,
- be wilder,
- be wildered,
- be-wildering,
- dis organizes,
- un settles,
- un settled,
- be-wildered,
- dis-organizes,
- be wilders,
- un hinge,
- un hinged,
- be-wilders,
- be wildering,
- un-settling,
- un hinges,
- un settling,
- dis-organized,
- dis composed,
- un-hinging,
- dis organizing,
- un settle,
- un-settles,
- dis-compose,
- dis organize,
- dis composing,
- un-settle,
- dis-organize,
- dis composes,
- dis-organizing,
- un-hinges,
- dis organized,
- dis-composing,
- dis compose,
- un hinging,
- un-settled,
- dis-composes,
- un-hinge,
- be-wilder.
• displease (verb)
- disgust,
- repel,
- shock,
- aggrieve,
- scandalize,
- disappoint.
• distress (verb)
- dis tress,
- was on case,
- be on one case,
- nit picked,
- doth a number on,
- doth number on,
- de-presses,
- wert on one case,
- dis tressed,
- doeth a number on,
- is on ones case,
- doing number on,
- am one case,
- de solating,
- wast on ones case,
- ticking off,
- was on one's case,
- wast on one's case,
- didst a number on,
- nit picks,
- de solated,
- being on ones case,
- is on one's case,
- were one case,
- is one case,
- were case,
- de-solates,
- wast on case,
- dis-tresses,
- de-solating,
- does a number on,
- art ones case,
- is case,
- de-press,
- was one's case,
- were one's case,
- be on case,
- didst number on,
- were ones case,
- de-pressing,
- were on ones case,
- did a number on,
- does number on,
- wert on one's case,
- de solates,
- doest a number on,
- is ones case,
- are one case,
- nit pick,
- wert case,
- wast one's case,
- makes tough for,
- de pressing,
- are on case,
- dis tresses,
- am one's case,
- making it tough for,
- is on one case,
- nit-picks,
- dost number on,
- wert on case,
- being on one case,
- being ones case,
- are ones case,
- was on ones case,
- am on ones case,
- make tough for,
- are on one case,
- makes it tough for,
- am on case,
- de solate,
- are on ones case,
- being one's case,
- was case,
- were on case,
- was on one case,
- de pressed,
- were on one case,
- wast one case,
- was ones case,
- being on case,
- wast case,
- wast ones case,
- pushed buttons,
- de press,
- am ones case,
- de-pressed,
- dost a number on,
- are case,
- pushes buttons,
- be one case,
- being on one's case,
- art one's case,
- are one's case,
- wert one case,
- am on one's case,
- being case,
- art case,
- pushing buttons,
- de-solate,
- are on one's case,
- is on case,
- making tough for,
- were on one's case,
- wert one's case,
- was one case,
- is one's case,
- doest number on,
- de-solated,
- wast on one case,
- de presses,
- am case,
- doing a number on,
- ticks off,
- wert on ones case,
- being one case,
- dis-tressed,
- doeth number on,
- be case,
- am on one case,
- did number on,
- nit picking,
- be on ones case,
- made tough for,
- be ones case,
- nit-picked,
- made it tough for,
- be one's case,
- dis-tress,
- wert ones case.
• disturb (verb)
- inter-feres,
- inter-fere,
- dis tract,
- made uneasy,
- dis tracts,
- dis hearten,
- un-nerve,
- dis-heartening,
- un nerve,
- dis-tract,
- inter feres,
- un-nerving,
- un nerves,
- dis heartening,
- dis-heartens,
- dis-tracts,
- inter fere,
- makes uneasy,
- dis heartened,
- un nerving,
- un-nerves,
- dis heartens,
- making uneasy,
- dis-hearten,
- dis-heartened,
- un nerved.
• embitter (verb)
- dis affects,
- made resentful,
- dis-illusioned,
- dis illusioned,
- dis-affected,
- dis affect,
- dis-affect,
- dis affected,
- dis illusion,
- dis-affects,
- made bitter,
- dis illusions,
- dis-illusions,
- making bitter,
- dis affecting,
- makes bitter,
- makes resentful,
- dis-illusion,
- dis-affecting,
- making resentful.
• enrage (verb)
- made see red,
- t offing,
- t offed,
- iring,
- asking for it,
- making blood boil,
- makes see red,
- t-offing,
- t off,
- in cites,
- made blood boil,
- t offs,
- makes blood boil,
- t-offed,
- making see red,
- toffing,
- in cite,
- t-offs,
- in-cite,
- in-cited,
- toffed,
- asks for it,
- asked for it.
• exacerbate (verb)
- in-creased,
- went from bad to worse,
- fanning the flames,
- pushing ones button,
- going from bad to worse,
- pushing one's button,
- in creasing,
- rubs salt in wound,
- rattles ones cage,
- fanned the flames,
- ex-acerbates,
- feeding fire,
- goes from bad to worse,
- in crease,
- in creases,
- pushed button,
- fan flames,
- went from bad worse,
- feed fire,
- goes from bad worse,
- push ones button,
- in-crease,
- rubs salt in a wound,
- pushed one button,
- rattling ones cage,
- pushed ones button,
- rattles one's cage,
- pushing one button,
- push one button,
- pushing button,
- hitting on,
- heating up,
- rub salt a wound,
- rubbed salt wound,
- pushes ones button,
- fed fire,
- rubs salt a wound,
- ex acerbate,
- ex-acerbated,
- rattles one cage,
- hits on,
- feeds the fire,
- rattling cage,
- rattles cage,
- rattle one cage,
- rattle ones cage,
- rattled one cage,
- pushes one's button,
- feeding the fire,
- rubbing salt in a wound,
- rub salt wound,
- ex-acerbating,
- rattled cage,
- rattle cage,
- ex acerbates,
- rubbed salt in wound,
- going from bad worse,
- feeds fire,
- rubbing salt wound,
- fanning flames,
- ex-acerbate,
- fans the flames,
- rubbed salt in a wound,
- fed the fire,
- ex acerbating,
- rubbing salt a wound,
- rubbed salt a wound,
- pushes button,
- fans flames,
- rattled ones cage,
- rattling one's cage,
- rattling one cage,
- rubbing salt in wound,
- rubs salt wound,
- ex acerbated,
- fanned flames,
- pushed one's button,
- pushes one button,
- in-creases,
- go from bad worse,
- rattled one's cage.
• exasperate (verb)
- ex-asperating,
- tried the patience of,
- trying the patience of,
- made waves,
- ex asperate,
- ex asperates,
- ex asperated,
- ex-asperate,
- tries patience of,
- trying patience of,
- tries the patience of,
- tried patience of,
- making waves,
- ex-asperates,
- ex asperating,
- try patience of,
- ex-asperated.
• excite (verb)
- ex cited,
- in duce,
- ex-citing,
- de-lights,
- de lighted,
- ex-cite,
- ex citing,
- in-duces,
- ex-cites,
- de-light,
- ex cite,
- in duces,
- ex cites,
- in-duce,
- ex-cited,
- wakes up,
- de lights,
- touched off,
- de-lighted,
- de-lighting,
- touches off,
- de lighting,
- de light.
• faze (verb)
• fire (verb)
- in spire,
- in-spiring,
- in-spire,
- in spires,
- in spirited,
- in form,
- in spirit,
- in forming,
- in spired,
- in-forming,
- in-spires,
- in spiring,
- in-spired,
- in-spiriting,
- in forms,
- in-spirit,
- in-spirited,
- in-forms,
- in spiriting,
- in-spirits.
• get under one's skin (verb)
• gnaw (verb)
- eating at,
- prey mind,
- prey on ones mind,
- preying one's mind,
- preyed on one mind,
- prey on mind,
- preyed mind,
- beleaguing,
- preyed one mind,
- be leagues,
- preys one mind,
- be leagued,
- preys on one mind,
- preying on mind,
- be-leagues,
- preyed on ones mind,
- prey ones mind,
- be leaguing,
- preyed on one's mind,
- be league,
- preying on one mind,
- preying mind,
- preyed one's mind,
- preys on one's mind,
- preying one mind,
- preyed on mind,
- preys on mind,
- prey one's mind,
- be-leagued,
- preying ones mind,
- beleagued,
- preys on ones mind,
- prey on one mind,
- beleagues,
- preys mind,
- preys ones mind,
- preys one's mind,
- preying on ones mind,
- preying on one's mind,
- preyed ones mind,
- prey one mind,
- be-leaguing,
- be-league.
• goad (verb)
- keys up,
- puts up to,
- keying up,
- putting to,
- puts to,
- firing up,
- siccing,
- putting up to.
• harass (verb)
- de-spoil,
- be leaguer,
- gives bad time,
- be-leaguers,
- jerking around,
- de spoiling,
- giving bad time,
- be leaguered,
- be-leaguered,
- be-leaguering,
- de spoils,
- gave a bad time,
- noodged,
- giving a bad time,
- jerks around,
- de-spoiled,
- de-spoiling,
- be leaguering,
- give bad time,
- be leaguers,
- works on,
- de-spoils,
- be-leaguer,
- gives a bad time,
- gave bad time,
- wrought on,
- de spoiled,
- de spoil,
- noodging.
• harry (verb)
- de-predated,
- de predating,
- chivies,
- de-predating,
- de predated,
- de predates,
- de-predates,
- de-predate,
- de predate.
• henpeck (verb)
- be rates,
- be-rate,
- be rated,
- be-rated,
- be rating,
- be rate,
- be-rating,
- be-rates.
• hurt, chafe (verb)
- sensitize,
- intensify,
- sharpen,
- sting.
• incense (verb)
- got rise out of,
- in-censing,
- getting rise out of,
- gets a rise out of,
- in-cense,
- in cense,
- got a rise out of,
- gat a rise out of,
- in-censes,
- gat rise out of,
- gets rise out of,
- in censing,
- gotten a rise out of,
- in censes,
- gotten rise out of,
- in-censed,
- get rise out of,
- in censed,
- getting a rise out of.
• inflame (verb)
- in-flame,
- in-flames,
- in flaming,
- in flame,
- in-flamed,
- in-flaming,
- in flamed.
• insult (verb)
- dumps on,
- de riding,
- dis-honoring,
- de grading,
- de base,
- de-based,
- de-base,
- steps one's toes,
- stepped toes,
- under estimate,
- dis-honor,
- dis-honors,
- de-grades,
- under-estimated,
- dis honors,
- step ones toes,
- step on one toes,
- steps toes,
- stepped on one's toes,
- under estimated,
- steps one toes,
- stepping on ones toes,
- dis honoring,
- stepped one toes,
- de basing,
- de graded,
- steps on one toes,
- stepped on one toes,
- stepping on toes,
- step one's toes,
- under-estimate,
- de grade,
- step one toes,
- de-grade,
- steps on toes,
- de ride,
- de-ride,
- stepped on ones toes,
- stepping on one's toes,
- stepping one toes,
- dumping on,
- stepped on toes,
- under-estimating,
- re-vile,
- de-grading,
- stepping one's toes,
- de grades,
- stepped ones toes,
- de based,
- under estimates,
- under estimating,
- step on ones toes,
- stepping toes,
- steps on one's toes,
- de-graded,
- de-riding,
- de-rides,
- steps ones toes,
- stepped one's toes,
- step on toes,
- dis honored,
- de-basing,
- de rides,
- step toes,
- re vile,
- dis-honored,
- stepping ones toes,
- dis honor,
- steps on ones toes,
- stepping on one toes.
• irk (verb)
- in commodes,
- in commode,
- in-commodes,
- in-commode.
• irritate (verb)
- hassle,
- tease,
- acerbate.
• jar (verb)
- dis according,
- dis-accords,
- dis-accorded,
- dis-cords,
- dis cording,
- dis-agree,
- dis cord,
- dis-cording,
- dis agreeing,
- dis agreed,
- dis accord,
- dis cords,
- dis agrees,
- mis matches,
- mis matched,
- dis-agrees,
- dis corded,
- dis-corded,
- mis-match,
- mis match,
- dis-according,
- dis-agreed,
- dis accords,
- dis-agreeing,
- dis-cord,
- dis accorded,
- mis-matches,
- dis agree,
- dis-accord,
- mis-matching,
- mis matching.
• madden (verb)
- drives distraction,
- un balances,
- de range,
- de ranged,
- de-ranges,
- drive distraction,
- drove insane,
- drove distraction,
- de-ranged,
- driving crazy,
- de ranging,
- driving insane,
- driving out mind,
- de-ranging,
- de ranges,
- un-balance,
- driving out of mind,
- drove out mind,
- drives to distraction,
- drave distraction,
- un-balanced,
- drive out mind,
- drove crazy,
- un balance,
- drives crazy,
- drave out of mind,
- drave out mind,
- un-balances,
- drives out of mind,
- drave insane,
- driving distraction,
- un balancing,
- drave to distraction,
- drives out mind,
- drave crazy,
- driving to distraction,
- un-balancing,
- drives insane,
- drove out of mind,
- de-range.
• make worse (verb)
• miff (verb)
- re sents,
- re sent,
- re-sent,
- re-sents.
• molest (verb)
- be-set,
- be-sets,
- be-setting,
- be sets,
- be setting.
• nag (verb)
- taking out on,
- takes out on,
- takes it out on,
- up-braid,
- up-braided,
- up-braids,
- up braided,
- found fault,
- up braid,
- up-braiding,
- up braids,
- took out on,
- finding fault,
- took it out on,
- finds fault,
- taking it out on.
• nettle (verb)
- snitting,
- snitted.
• offend (verb)
- re pulsed,
- am disagreeable,
- art disagreeable,
- wert disagreeable,
- is disagreeable,
- re pulsing,
- re-pulsing,
- re-pulses,
- were disagreeable,
- was disagreeable,
- are disagreeable,
- re-pulsed,
- being disagreeable,
- re pulses,
- wast disagreeable.
• pain (verb)
- discomfort,
- cramp,
- anguish,
- suffer,
- throb,
- wrench,
- sore,
- afflict,
- smart,
- throe,
- stitch,
- rack,
- agonize,
- hurt,
- ache,
- crick.
• peeve (verb)
- getting goat,
- gat one's goat,
- rub wrong way,
- get one goat,
- getting one goat,
- gat goat,
- gat ones goat,
- gat one goat,
- got goat,
- gotten goat,
- gets one goat,
- getting ones goat,
- gotten one's goat,
- getting one's goat,
- get ones goat,
- got one goat,
- got one's goat,
- gotten ones goat,
- gotten one goat,
- got ones goat,
- gets goat,
- gets ones goat.
• perturb (verb)
- dis-arranged,
- made a scene,
- dis-orders,
- dis orders,
- dis arranged,
- dis-order,
- dis-arranging,
- makes a scene,
- dis-ordering,
- dis order,
- dis-arrange,
- made scene,
- dis-arranges,
- make scene,
- dis-ordered,
- making scene,
- dis arranging,
- makes scene,
- dis ordered,
- dis ordering,
- making a scene,
- dis arranges,
- dis arrange.
• pique (verb)
• provoke (verb)
• rile (verb)
• tire (verb)
- grows weary,
- went stale,
- ennuiing,
- over-worked,
- over works,
- over taxed,
- over working,
- over tax,
- over strain,
- over-burdening,
- goes stale,
- over-tax,
- over-strained,
- over taxing,
- over burdened,
- over-straining,
- going stale,
- over-taxes,
- over-strain,
- over strains,
- over-taxed,
- over burdens,
- over burdening,
- over-burdened,
- over strained,
- over-taxing,
- over straining,
- over-works,
- over-strains,
- over-burdens,
- over worked,
- over burden,
- growing weary,
- over taxes.
• torment (verb)
- drove bananas,
- playing cat mouse,
- played cat and mouse,
- mis treated,
- mis-treat,
- drave bananas,
- mis treats,
- drives bananas,
- mis treat,
- mis-treats,
- playing cat and mouse,
- mis treating,
- played cat mouse,
- puts through wringer,
- driving bananas,
- plays cat and mouse,
- plays cat mouse,
- play cat mouse,
- mis-treated,
- putting through wringer.
• trouble (verb)
- made fuss,
- made a fuss,
- making a fuss,
- making fuss,
- make fuss,
- makes fuss,
- imposed on,
- imposes on,
- makes a fuss,
- imposing on.
• turn off (verb)
- dis-interest,
- making one sick,
- loses ones interest,
- dis interesting,
- made sick,
- dis-enchanting,
- losing interest,
- dis enchanting,
- lost one's interest,
- lost one interest,
- making sick,
- losing ones interest,
- lose one interest,
- dis-interesting,
- loses one interest,
- made one sick,
- dis-interests,
- dis enchant,
- dis-enchanted,
- dis-interested,
- dis interests,
- lost interest,
- dis enchants,
- dis interest,
- loses one's interest,
- losing one's interest,
- loses interest,
- dis enchanted,
- lost ones interest,
- makes sick,
- losing one interest,
- lose ones interest,
- dis-enchants,
- dis interested,
- dis-enchant,
- makes one sick.
• vex (verb)
- getting ones hair,
- gat in hair,
- get one's hair,
- gat in one hair,
- gets in one hair,
- got in hair,
- got one's hair,
- gets one's hair,
- get hair,
- gotten in one's hair,
- gets in hair,
- gat in ones hair,
- got in ones hair,
- gat one's hair,
- gat one hair,
- get one hair,
- getting in hair,
- got in one's hair,
- getting hair,
- getting one's hair,
- gets in one's hair,
- get ones hair,
- gat ones hair,
- got ones hair,
- getting one hair,
- get in ones hair,
- gat hair,
- got hair,
- gotten in one hair,
- gets one hair,
- gotten in ones hair,
- gotten one hair,
- gets hair,
- got one hair,
- gotten hair,
- get in one hair,
- gotten ones hair,
- gat in one's hair,
- got in one hair,
- gets in ones hair,
- gotten in hair,
- gets ones hair,
- getting in one hair,
- gotten one's hair,
- getting in ones hair,
- getting in one's hair.
• worry (verb)
- concerned oneself,
- bites one nails,
- bite ones nails,
- gnawed at,
- hath qualms,
- biting ones nails,
- haddest qualms,
- bit one nails,
- feeling uneasy,
- sweated out,
- bit ones nails,
- sweats out,
- concerning oneself,
- bites ones nails,
- bites one's nails,
- had qualms,
- concerns oneself,
- gnawing at,
- bites nails,
- biting one nails,
- gnaws at,
- bit nails,
- felt uneasy,
- has qualms,
- hadst qualms,
- bite one nails,
- hast qualms,
- having qualms,
- feels uneasy,
- bit one's nails.
• wound (verb)
- ouched,
- ouching,
- opens up.
Other synonyms:
- tee off,
- persecute,
- wear on,
- bum out.
- rattle,
- reconcile,
- wind up,
- outrage,
- piss off.
- stir,
- ruffle.
- push.
- drive.
• aggravate
- Hacking,
- pick on,
- Bumming,
- irritates,
- wigged,
- grate,
- Hacked,
- got to,
- be at,
- get to,
- drive up the wall,
- Bummed,
- be on the back of,
- get on one's nerves,
- getting to,
- give a hard time,
- gets to,
- wigging.
• bore
- be tedious,
- putting to sleep,
- talk one's ear off,
- turn one off,
- bend one's ear,
- sent to sleep,
- exhaust,
- put to sleep,
- send to sleep,
- puts to sleep.
• chafe
- Rubbed,
- skin.
• disappoint
- disgruntle.
• displease
- Winging,
- cut to the quick,
- Discontenting,
- curdled,
- zinging,
- play dirty,
- curdling.
• embitter
- make bitter,
- Poisoned,
- bitters,
- venoming,
- venomed,
- Bittering,
- make resentful,
- bittered,
- embitter.
• exasperate
- nerves.
• excite
- waking up,
- waked up,
- wake up,
- foment,
- touching off,
- woke up,
- touch off.
• gall
- galling,
- Filed,
- gall.
• gnaw
- ate at,
- eats at,
- Gnawing,
- eat at,
- beleague,
- prey on one's mind,
- wear down.
• madden
- drive insane,
- drive to distraction,
- drive crazy,
- unbalancing,
- drive out of mind,
- drove to distraction,
- frenzying.
• miff
- miffed,
- miff.
• needle
- needling.
• Other relevant words:
- enthusing,
- stew,
- heckling,
- madden,
- troubled,
- fire up,
- do a number on,
- eating,
- torment,
- bore,
- sands,
- incense,
- overtaxed,
- heated up,
- push one's buttons,
- triggers,
- ridden,
- overtaxing,
- exhort,
- fret,
- Boning,
- play cat and mouse,
- goad,
- give a bad time,
- put through wringer,
- Fretting,
- overburdened,
- Fussing,
- prickling,
- triggering,
- bug,
- jar,
- goose,
- makes waves,
- rub salt into the wound,
- contuse,
- intrude upon,
- heckle,
- toff,
- heat up,
- tremoring,
- psychs,
- overstrains,
- gripe,
- get in one's hair,
- aggravate,
- rowel,
- martyrized,
- Fagging,
- neutralize,
- discorded,
- gnaw,
- tremored,
- harass,
- jerk around,
- nitpick,
- noodge,
- exacerbate,
- sicced,
- try the patience of,
- contuses,
- Contusing,
- make sore,
- Chivied,
- displease,
- stirs up,
- work on,
- sic,
- feed the fire,
- work up,
- get a rise out of,
- dumped on,
- overstrain,
- pother,
- harry,
- rub one the wrong way,
- Egging,
- scrape,
- raise hell,
- Pothered,
- disturb,
- be set,
- grew weary,
- Harassing,
- intoxicates,
- impose on,
- Tiffing,
- lays waste,
- wound,
- troubling,
- stirred up,
- take it out on,
- hit on,
- boiling over,
- irk,
- plundered,
- sand,
- boil over,
- push one's button,
- nit-picking,
- molest,
- get someone,
- go stale,
- vex,
- in flames,
- dump on,
- flip out,
- enrage,
- ticked off,
- chivy,
- grow weary,
- get under skin,
- chafe,
- eaten,
- pain,
- wounded,
- grate on,
- distress,
- burn up,
- enthuses,
- Tiffed,
- make blood boil,
- IRED,
- over-burden,
- stir up,
- faze,
- torturing,
- Roweling,
- nag,
- Sanding,
- impeded,
- under-estimates,
- get in hair,
- mismatched,
- PSYCH,
- ennuied,
- opened up,
- henpecked,
- get mad,
- stirring up,
- be disagreeable,
- nettle,
- psyching,
- set on,
- forayed,
- Roweled,
- Martyred,
- in spirits,
- goosed,
- blistered,
- Pothering,
- drive bananas,
- harassed,
- mismatching,
- Struggled,
- perturb,
- rub salt in wound,
- give the business,
- give out,
- noodges,
- eat,
- laid waste,
- make waves,
- sicking,
- keyed up,
- get under one's skin,
- steam up,
- Deviled,
- put up to,
- get on nerves,
- make see red,
- bushing,
- do number on,
- tick off,
- discording,
- Rowelled,
- rile,
- rattle one's cage,
- martyrizing,
- rasp,
- rub salt in a wound,
- Deviling,
- bother,
- laying waste,
- FAGS,
- foraying,
- Overstraining,
- contused,
- Devilled,
- martyrize,
- find fault,
- carp at,
- steamed up,
- boned,
- Jounced,
- take out on,
- lay waste,
- wiggle,
- go from bad to worse,
- get one's goat,
- turn off,
- Overstrained,
- enthuse,
- make a scene,
- get on someone,
- grieve,
- Martyring,
- bedevil,
- anger,
- nit-pick,
- over-wrought,
- up set,
- ask for it,
- hector,
- Sanded,
- enraged,
- fan the flames,
- chagrin,
- provoke,
- peeve,
- intoxicate,
- wobble,
- Racked,
- worry,
- fag,
- gets one's goat,
- jarring,
- Rowelling,
- Madded,
- exasperate,
- work against,
- worked on,
- toffs,
- overtaxes,
- make a fuss,
- trouble,
- Devilling,
- fires up,
- fire,
- put to,
- Nettles,
- jerked around,
- gooses,
- sicked,
- Fussed,
- Impassion,
- raising hell,
- open up,
- mystify,
- jouncing,
- overtax,
- Sneered,
- try,
- lose temper,
- insult,
- key up,
- Henpeck,
- make it tough for,
- spite,
- needle,
- fagged,
- itch,
- tire,
- burning up,
- pique,
- infuriate,
- torture,
- make worse,
- goosing,
- twist the knife in the wound,
- get goat,
- heats up,
- antagonize,
- steaming up,
- hinders,
- excite,
- try one's patience,
- make uneasy,
- inflame,
- SICS,
- opening up,
- martyrizes,
- be on one's case,
- working on,
- discompose,
- prickled,
- rowels,
- Egged,
- work into lather,
- step on one's toes,
- Mads,
- offend,
- burned up,
- trigger,
- Chivying.
• pain
- pained,
- hit where one lives,
- anguished.
• turn off
- Disinteresting,
- lose interest,
- disenchanting,
- lose one's interest,
- disenchants,
- disenchant,
- make sick,
- make one sick.
• worry
- sweat out,
- biting one's nails,
- biting nails,
- bite one's nails,
- have qualms,
- worried,
- Dunned,
- sweating out,
- feel uneasy,
- DUNS,
- bite nails,
- Dunning,
- gnaw at.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- produce,
- increase,
- have,
- incitation,
- build up,
- take aback,
- make trouble,
- incommode,
- quicken,
- discommode,
- scratch,
- beget,
- barrack,
- fume,
- jade,
- dress down,
- chivvvy,
- fetch,
- transgress,
- jangle,
- obtain,
- encouragement,
- lash,
- aim,
- bring,
- agitation,
- inconvenience,
- burden,
- excitement,
- derange,
- convey,
- besot,
- excoriate,
- teeoff,
- arrive,
- arrest,
- rib,
- passionate,
- chevy,
- make acute,
- chivvy,
- incentive,
- annoyingly,
- develop,
- sicken,
- incite,
- fester,
- chafing,
- hot up,
- disaffect,
- wrath,
- catch,
- mock,
- infuriating,
- capture,
- fan the flame,
- commotion,
- oppress,
- bristle,
- intrude,
- augment,
- separate,
- disoblige,
- sow dissension,
- affront,
- lacerate,
- make nervous,
- come,
- set out,
- default,
- nip,
- maddeningly,
- induce,
- guy,
- slosh,
- irritation,
- annoying,
- ablaze,
- rage,
- reach,
- put,
- give the needle,
- sour,
- fray,
- enlarge,
- go,
- wig,
- crock,
- carp,
- kindle,
- cavil,
- chew out,
- set on edge,
- give offense,
- huff,
- provocation,
- concern oneself,
- incur,
- stupefy,
- exasperatingly,
- Endamage,
- aggravating,
- inconvenience oneself,
- Discomfiting,
- harm,
- spur,
- maddening,
- grit,
- tedious,
- generate,
- prolong the agony,
- divide,
- strain,
- snub,
- frustrate,
- dominate,
- pay off,
- pickup,
- import,
- grow,
- tweak,
- tantalize,
- COD,
- defensive,
- discourage,
- drive mad,
- dilapidate,
- exacerbation,
- pall,
- pierce,
- bothersome,
- criticize,
- enhance,
- blistering,
- lambaste,
- let,
- razz,
- worsen,
- father,
- get excited,
- impair,
- nonplus,
- amplify,
- quibble,
- receive,
- wall,
- disconcerting,
- exasperation,
- souse,
- intimidate,
- piss,
- stimulus,
- pick,
- irritating,
- e,
- berate,
- emotion,
- agonise,
- ire,
- tickle,
- can,
- remonstrate,
- tantalise,
- bully,
- accelerate,
- find,
- irritatingly,
- Importune,
- motivation,
- cut,
- Suscitate,
- horrify,
- spine,
- ail,
- chide,
- become,
- buzz off,
- hype,
- experience,
- push on,
- progress to,
- animation,
- fury,
- frost,
- discomfit,
- crucify,
- start,
- twist,
- lambast,
- seethe,
- put out,
- Gride,
- overthrow,
- pose,
- set against,
- prod,
- have words,
- make,
- deepen,
- smash,
- plaster,
- ferocity,
- agitate,
- prick,
- terrorize,
- cheese off,
- dumbfound,
- trouble oneself,
- access,
- upbraid,
- excited,
- magnify,
- wind-up,
- deteriorate,
- unsettle,
- harrow,
- lecture,
- raise hackles,
- pall upon,
- sustain,
- haunt,
- trounce,
- scold,
- distemper,
- twit,
- thorn,
- stimulation,
- disquiet,
- heated,
- frustrating,
- embarrass,
- wring,
- engender,
- discontent,
- find fault with,
- ride,
- heighten,
- martyr,
- aggravation,
- commove,
- disunite,
- confuse,
- beat,
- slight,
- bawl out,
- rally,
- Enchafe,
- set at odds,
- chaff,
- beleaguer,
- draw,
- chew up,
- beset,
- exercise,
- fuddle,
- bring forth,
- acquire,
- niggle,
- excruciate,
- damage,
- rebuke,
- pick at,
- undergo,
- break,
- begin,
- interfere,
- stick,
- dog,
- come between,
- tyrannize,
- flummox,
- stir up trouble,
- disrupt,
- bugger off,
- emotional,
- stimulate,
- rub the wrong way,
- alienate,
- set about,
- weary,
- Irksome,
- bewilder,
- brown off,
- enthusiastic,
- rouse,
- concern,
- set up,
- pit against,
- fix,
- disconcert,
- give umbrage,
- stab,
- interrupt,
- jaw,
- resentment,
- injure,
- destroy,
- seedy,
- humiliate,
- convulse,
- urge,
- contract,
- bite,
- hack,
- estrange,
- mortify,
- nag at,
- fretted,
- start out,
- getting,
- excitation,
- tax,
- ragged,
- jeer,
- dun,
- may,
- reprimand,
- amaze,
- perplex,
- give pain,
- devil,
- taunt,
- hoarse,
- get,
- steam,
- urticate,
- fluster,
- difficult,
- harried,
- roil,
- commence,
- reproof,
- nerve,
- force,
- agent provocateur,
- soak,
- weaken,
- hurt feelings,
- nudge,
- puzzle,
- breach,
- fillip,
- pay back,
- pinch,
- baffle,
- put back,
- hound,
- frantic,
- take.

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Equivalence
- Verb, base form
  annoy.
Independent
- Verb, base form
  aggravate, boost, provoke, spur, stimulate, upset.

Hypernym for Irritate:

v.
- body
  gall, itch, scratch, chafe, rub, fret.
- change
  vellicate, pinch.

Hyponym for Irritate:

v.
- body
  exacerbate, aggravate, exasperate, worsen.
- change
  stimulate, excite.

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