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.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To render null and void.
- transitive verb. To increase the action or violence of; to heighten excitement in; to intensify; to stimulate.
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. To produce irritation in; to stimulate; to cause to contract. See Irritation, n., 2.
- noun. To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage.
- adjective. Excited; heightened.
- verb. excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame
"Aspirin irritates my stomach"
- verb. 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"
- verb. 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"
Synonyms
annoy, bother, chafe, devil, gravel, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex
Common word forms
irritated, irritates, irritating
Words from these letters
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