Nuisance: alternatives and connections

The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.

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

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The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.

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The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment.

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Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

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Rendering null and void; conditionally invalidating.

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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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A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.

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The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.