picking on
phrase
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as in intimidating
to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats Picking on others is not tolerated at this school. Synonyms & Similar Words
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- intimidating
- bullying
- frightening
- startling
- bullyragging
- ballyragging
- scaring
- blackjacking
- coercing
- browbeating
- bulldozing
- shocking
- cowing
- hectoring
- pushing around
- threatening
- bogarting
- harassing
- strong-arming
- alaruming
- terrifying
- pressuring
- horrifying
- alarming
- blustering
- affrighting
- psyching (out)
- forcing
- badgering
- spooking
- terrorizing
- menacing
- compelling
- discomposing
- disturbing
- constraining
- hounding
- trash-talking
- pressing
- bludgeoning
- obliging
- distressing
- unnerving
- disconcerting
- disquieting
- demoralizing
- upsetting
- perturbing
- making
- dragooning
- unmanning
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- comforting
- reassuring
- soothing
- cheering
- consoling
- encouraging
- solacing
- convincing
- persuading
- heartening
- emboldening
- steeling
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as in teasing
to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults "Stop picking on your siblings!" Synonyms & Similar Words
- teasing
- taunting
- mocking
- riding
- making game of
- bothering
- baiting
- annoying
- hazing
- ridiculing
- putting out
- heckling
- hassling
- torturing
- needling
- plaguing
- irritating
- trying
- hacking (off)
- gnawing (at)
- testing
- burning (up)
- troubling
- bullying
- frosting
- itching
- grating
- deriding
- jeering
- gibing
- spiting
- nagging
- disturbing
- bugging
- jibing
- hagriding
- aggravating
- narking
- ruffling
- griping
- nettling
- vexing
- pestering
- riling
- aggrieving
- exasperating
- irking
- chafing
- harassing
- goading
- getting
- tormenting
- rasping
- badgering
- fretting
- galling
- piquing
- dogging
- discomforting
- perturbing
- persecuting
- agitating
- bedeviling
- hounding
- beleaguering
- peeving
- browbeating
- terrorizing
- hectoring
- harrying
- permissiveness
- permissivenesses
- permit
- permit (of)
- permit card
- permit of
- permits
- permits (of)
- permits of
- permittance
- permittances
- permitted
- semicylindrical
- semidarkness
- semidarknesses
- semidehydrated
- semideified
- semideifies
- semideify
- semideifying
- semidemisemiquavers
- semideponents
- semidesert
- semideserts
- semidetached