单词 | irritate |
释义 | irritate/ˈɪrɪteɪt /verb [with object] 1Make (someone) annoyed or a little angry: his tone irritated her...
Synonyms annoy, vex, make angry, make cross, anger, exasperate, bother, irk, gall, pique, put out, displease, get/put someone's back up, antagonize, get on someone's nerves, rub up the wrong way, try someone's patience, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, raise someone's hackles; enrage, infuriate, madden, incense, make someone's blood boil, drive to distraction, goad, provoke informal aggravate, peeve, hassle, miff, rile, nettle, needle, get, get to, bug, hack off, get under someone's skin, get in someone's hair, get up someone's nose, put someone's nose out of joint, get someone's goat, give someone the hump, rattle someone's cage, get someone's dander up, drive mad/crazy, drive round the bend/twist, drive up the wall, drive bananas, make someone see red British informal wind up, nark, get across, get on someone's wick North American informal tee off, tick off, burn up, rankle, ride, gravel, bum out British informal get on someone's tits New Zealand informal rark informal, dated give someone the pip vulgar slang piss off rare exacerbate, hump, rasp annoyed, cross, angry, vexed, exasperated, irked, piqued, displeased, put out, fed up, disgruntled, in a bad mood, in a temper, testy, in high dudgeon, huffy, in a huff, resentful, aggrieved; furious, irate, infuriated, incensed, enraged, wrathful, choleric informal aggravated, peeved, nettled, miffed, miffy, mad, riled, hacked off, peed off, hot under the collar, foaming at the mouth British informal browned off, cheesed off, brassed off, not best pleased, narked, ratty, shirty, eggy North American informal teed off, ticked off, sore, bent out of shape Australian/New Zealand informal snaky, crook West Indian informal vex vulgar slang pissed off North American vulgar slang pissed literary ireful archaic snuffy, wrath 2Cause inflammation or other discomfort in (a part of the body): sprays and polishes can irritate dry, sensitive skin...
Synonyms inflame, aggravate; hurt, pain; chafe, abrade, fret, gall, rub painfully, rub against, scratch, rasp, scrape, graze, grate rare excoriate 2.1 Biology Stimulate (an organism, cell, or organ) to produce an active response.The implanted electrodes may irritate the snake to such an extent that it may never reach basal condition. Derivativesirritative
irritator
OriginMid 16th century (in the sense 'excite, provoke'): from Latin irritat- 'irritated', from the verb irritare. |
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