Irritate: alternatives and connections

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

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

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To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.

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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.…

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To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.

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Exasperated; imbittered.

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To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…

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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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To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair.

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To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.

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of Beset

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

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See Chivy, v. t.

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To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.

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See 1st Frith.

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The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that…

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Jet, the mineral.

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Serving to gratify; agreeable.

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To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens o…

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To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.

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To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.

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To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.

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To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as be…

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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.

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To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back…

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To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

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To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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To twitch; to cause to twitch convulsively.

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The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially,…

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The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially,…

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Serving to excite or irritate; irritating; as, an irritative agent.

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Serving to excite or irritate; irritating; as, an irritative agent.

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The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.

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The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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To assent to as true.

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To assent to as true.

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