transitive. To anger, grieve; to vex.

transitive. To afflict, torment, vex; in Middle English esp. to trouble in sleep.

To vex, trouble.

transitive. To vex, trouble, annoy, anger. Also reflexive: to be or become vexed or angry. English regional and Scottish in later use.

transitive. To chafe, irritate. Chiefly with regard to the mind: To annoy, distress, vex, worry. Also, to fret oneself; and to bring into or to (a…

To cause (a person or, in later use also, animal) to become irritated, exasperated, or mildly angry… transitive. In passive use, as in they were annoy…

To vex, trouble.

To cause suffering or inconvenience to. Obsolete.

transitive. To deprive of ease, make uneasy; to put to discomfort or inconvenience; to trouble, annoy, incommode, molest. Obsolete.

figurative. To afflict, to torment; physically and mentally. Also absol. Now only U.S.: to annoy, vex.

From the notion that attributed the ‘humour’ or ‘temper’ to the preponderance of one or other of the bodily humours: To disturb or disorder the…

With reference to feelings (the chief current use). transitive. To hurt or wound the feelings or susceptibilities of; to be displeasing or…

To anger, vex, worry.

To annoy, distress, vex, adj.

To trouble, grieve, vex, annoy, incommode.

transitive. To trouble, distress, disturb.

transitive. To make (a person) angry, provoke (a person) to anger; to annoy, irritate, enrage, infuriate.

transitive. To cause grief or pain to; to annoy, hurt, vex. Also absol. To do harm, be troublesome.

transitive. To affect with a feeling of dissatisfaction, frustration, annoyance, or irritation, now especially with trivial matters; to cause (a…

transitive. To cause trouble, grief, or vexation to; to disturb, annoy, inconvenience. Occasionally intransitive. Now rare.

transitive. To harm, disturb; to cause to be troubled.

transitive. To trouble; to make it troublesome for.

transitive. To prick; (figurative) to harass, annoy.

To affect painfully or disagreeably. transitive. figurative and in figurative contexts. To irritate (a sore spot); to annoy. Also intransitive with ag…

figurative. In phrases the mail wries (also wrings): fortune turns, things turn out (usually badly); to wring (a person) on the mails: to cause…

transitive. To bring disadvantage to; to injure, incommode, inconvenience.

transitive. To torment, vex.

To distress with something disagreeable and unwelcome; to vex, annoy; to tease, plague, worry, pester, bother. †Also intransitive with with (obsolete…

transitive. To irritate, annoy.

transitive. Scottish. To displease, upset, annoy, or put out of sorts. Obsolete.

transitive. To touch or concern (a person) closely; to vex, to distress. Also intransitive. Obsolete.

figurative. To affect painfully, as if by abrasion; to fret, harass, irritate. Now rare.

To grieve, afflict, distress.

To fill with spite or vexation; to annoy, offend, irritate.

transitive. To vex, trouble. to fike one's noddle: to trouble one's head. Also, to shrug (the shoulders).

To harass or annoy mentally, render sore in spirit, irritate.

transitive. To treat with a corrosive; figurative to vex, afflict, distress.

transitive. To apply a corrosive to; to consume or ‘fret’ as a corrosive; to worry, vex, annoy, distress.

transitive. To trouble, vex, upset; to provoke an emotional response in (a person) as if by touching a sore or tender part; to hurt the feelings…

transitive. To fail to accommodate (in various senses of accommodate, v.); to cause to become less well accommodated; to inconvenience, incommode.

transitive. To render weak, as if by physical wasting; to vex, worry. Obsolete.

transitive. To trouble, afflict, torment. Now rare.

To prick with or as with a thorn; to vex.

figurative. To fret as with an ulcer; to exasperate, irritate; to aggravate (a disease, sorrow).

In weakened use. transitive. To trouble, tease, bother, annoy, or pester, usually repeatedly, insistently, or constantly; to constitute a nuisance…

transitive. To subject to inconvenience or discomfort; to trouble, annoy, molest, embarrass, inconvenience.

transitive. To distress, worry, trouble. Cf. afret, adj.

transitive. To catch or annoy like briers.

figurative in phrases, as: to gallor tread on (one's) kibes, to press upon closely so as to irritate or annoy, to hurt one's feelings; to treador f…

transitive. To inconvenience; to disturb, trouble; = discommode, v.

transitive. = incommode, v. 1.

intransitive. to grate onor upon. To have an irritating effect on or upon.

transitive (reflexive). To discommode oneself.

figurative. To ‘shake’ mentally; to upset, discompose; to irritate, annoy. Obsolete.

figurative. To affect after the manner of an ulcer; to irritate; to wound or poison.

= incommode, v.

to put (a person) out of his (her,etc.) way (also to put (a person) out of the way): to disturb, inconvenience, trouble; (formerly also) †to…

transitive. = discommode, v.

transitive. To cause (a person) inconvenience or trouble; to inconvenience, incommode.

In later use esp. in negative contexts: cf. unruffled, adj.1 2. transitive. To annoy, irritate, or unsettle (a person, the mind, etc.).

intransitive and transitive. To grate upon; to have an irritating effect on. Cf. grate, v.1 3.

In more concrete sense: To inconvenience, incommode, annoy. Obsolete or dialect.

In lighter sense: To tease or worry excessively; to trouble, ‘plague’.

transitive. To vex, annoy, or plague. Cf. pester, v.1 4a.

transitive. To trouble, vex, worry, grieve. archaic.

transitive (in passive). Scottish. To be hard-pressed; to be troubled, worried, or oppressed.

transitive. To cause trouble or inconvenience for (a person). Also: to pester, annoy.

Chiefly English regional (northern and midlands) in later use. transitive. To poke; to move or stir (anything) by thrusting or prodding. Now rare.

transitive. To tease, pester, annoy.

to tweak the nose (also tail) of: to deliberately tease, annoy, or antagonize (a person, group, etc.), esp. in order to provoke a reaction. Similarly…

transitive. Chiefly British. To tease, annoy, or irritate; to give trouble to.

To irritate, vex, tease. Cf. tout, n.2

transitive. To grate upon, to irritate.

transitive. To cause (a person or group of people) to feel profound indignation, anger, or shock; to offend deeply. Occasionally intransitive.

transitive. To worry, distress, vex, pester.

transitive. To tease, annoy.

transitive. Probably: to annoy. rare.

To ‘catch’ or entangle in talk; to embarrass.

transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). To concern, worry, or annoy.

to have (also get) the pip: to be (or become) depressed, despondent, or unwell. to give a person the pip: to annoy or irritate; to make angry…

intransitive. colloquial. To annoy, get on the wrong side of, come into conflict with (someone).

transitive. To annoy, exasperate, infuriate.

To disturb, vex. Also intransitive in to eat at. (Cf. bite, v. 16b) originally U.S.

to twist the tail (of a person): to annoy, to coerce (someone). to twist the lion's tail (U.S.): to provoke the resentment of British people.

transitive. To offend; to make indignant or resentful.

to tweak the nose (also tail) of: to deliberately tease, annoy, or antagonize (a person, group, etc.), esp. in order to provoke a reaction. Similarly…

With up. To annoy. colloquial (originally U.S.). rare.

transitive. colloquial. To annoy (a person); to ‘wind up’, stir up. Now rare.

Australian slang. wouldn't it rip you!: used as an expression of intense annoyance or exasperation. Cf. wouldn't it? at will, v.1 phrases 9.

transitive. To provoke, vex, or annoy (a person). Also: to cheat or betray.

transitive. To inconvenience or annoy (a person), esp. by acting indecisively; to waste (a person's) time; to mess about with. Cf. to fuck around…

transitive. With off. To annoy, irritate, or frustrate (a person). Cf. cheesed off at cheesed, adj.

to pee off. transitive. Originally U.S. To irritate or anger (a person). Cf. to piss off at piss, v. phrasal verbs.

transitive. To make (a person) angry or annoyed; to annoy, irritate.

transitive. Chiefly British. To annoy or irritate (a person).

to tweak the nose (also tail) of: to deliberately tease, annoy, or antagonize (a person, group, etc.), esp. in order to provoke a reaction. Similarly…

to tweak the nose (also tail) of: to deliberately tease, annoy, or antagonize (a person, group, etc.), esp. in order to provoke a reaction. Similarly…

figurative. To set in readiness for action; to raise (feeling) to a high degree; now usually, to put into a state of tension or intensity of…

transitive. To inconvenience or annoy (a person), esp. by acting indecisively; to waste (a person's) time; to mess about with; = to dick around 1 at…

to injure or annoy greatly: see quot. s.v. to-tray v.