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Displease

To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke.

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Manner of action 13

Annoy 76% connected

To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.

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Bother 76% connected

To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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Chafe 76% connected

To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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Devil 76% connected

The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.

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Dissatisfy 76% connected

To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite…

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Gravel 76% connected

Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

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Irritate 76% connected

To render null and void.

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Nettle 76% connected

A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the…

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Rag 76% connected

To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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Repel 76% connected

To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.

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Repulse 76% connected

To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy.

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Rile 76% connected

To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

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Vex 76% connected

To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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Cause 76% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Induce 76% connected

To lead in; to introduce.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Stimulate 76% connected

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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Displeasure 74% connected

The feeling of one who is displeased; irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which oppos…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Displeasure 74% connected

The feeling of one who is displeased; irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which oppos…

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Causes 1

Dislike 72% connected

To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.

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Antonym 2

Delight 94% connected

A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy.

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Delight 94% connected

A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy.

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