Dictionary Entry
irritate
irritate is a 8-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To render null and void. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To render null and void.
- 2transitive verb
To increase the action or violence of; to heighten excitement in; to intensify; to stimulate.
- 3transitive verb
To excite anger or displeasure in; to provoke; to tease; to exasperate; to annoy; to vex; as, the insolence of a tyrant irritates his subjects.
- 4transitive verb
To produce irritation in; to stimulate; to cause to contract. See Irritation., 2.
- 5noun
To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage.
- 6adjective
Excited; heightened.
- 7verb
excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame
"Aspirin irritates my stomach"
- 8verb
excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus
"irritate the glands of a leaf"
- 9verb
cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
"Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"
"It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"
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