irritate

irritate has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• v. t.. To render null and void.
• v. t.. To increase the action or violence of; to heighten excitement in; to intensify; to stimulate.
• v. t.. 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.
• v. t.. To produce irritation in; to stimulate; to cause to contract. See Irritation, n., 2.
• n.. To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage.
• a.. Excited; heightened.
• v.. excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame; "Aspirin irritates my stomach"
• v.. 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"
• v.. 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"