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Adjective

Causing annoyance or frustration

Causing annoyance or bother

Deserving of condemnation or execration

(usually used in third person form "gets") Annoying or irritating (someone)

To be triggering a passionate feeling or reaction

Present participle for to make worse or more severe

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Causing annoyance or frustration

enough to try the patience of a saint

enough to drive you up the wall

bedevilling^UK

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

bedeviling^US

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“The rising market value of oysters in the 1850s became an increasingly aggravating issue to the governing body of Islip Township.”

Adjective

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Causing annoyance or bother

unfavorable^US

gruelling^UK

agonising^UK

sombre^UK

agonizing^US

somber^US

grueling^US

emotionally exhausting

emotionally depleting

humourless^UK

unsavoury^UK

unsavory^US

humorless^US

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Adjective

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Deserving of condemnation or execration

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(usually used in third person form "gets") Annoying or irritating (someone)

rubbing up the wrong way

giving someone the hump

driving mad

driving crazy

driving nuts

making someone see red

getting in someone's hair

getting on someone's nerves

getting on someone's tits

getting on your nerves

getting someone's back up

getting someone's dander up

getting someone's goat

getting someone's hackles up

getting someone's wick

getting under someone's skin

getting up your nose

gnawing

harrying

making someone's hackles rise

making your blood boil

rattling someone's cage

ruffling someone's feathers

trying someone's patience

getting under your skin

ruffling one's feathers

getting on one's nerves

picking on

getting up someone's nose

making somebody's hackles rise

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

driving to distraction

beleaguering

giving someone grief

driving round the bend

driving round the twist

getting in your hair

asking for it

putting your back up

giving someone the pip

hitting where one lives

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

rubbing the wrong way

terrorizing^US

hurting somebody's feelings

terrorising^UK

getting your dander up

criticizing^US

victimizing^US

tantalizing^US

getting your hackles up

putting someone off their stroke

criticising^UK

putting someone's nose out of joint

imposing on

tantalising^UK

mixing up

dumping on

bending someone's ear

hanging up

putting to trouble

driving you up the wall

victimising^UK

getting across someone

setting one's teeth on edge

causing discomfort to

breathing down someone's neck

wearing

trying the patience of

rubbing you up the wrong way

putting on the spot

getting a rise out of

knocking for six

taking the piss out of

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

making self-conscious

making it hot for someone

taking the wind out of your sails

getting in a sweat

jangling

going to your head

sticking in one's craw

putting someone off their stride

making someone scratch their head

inflicting anguish on

ragging on

turning on

making things hot for someone

tormenting yourself

causing someone to lose their composure

intoxicating

getting in a tizz

putting out of countenance

giving offence to

possessing

putting on edge

making someone fed up

throwing into a tizzy

getting on the wrong side of

getting in a state

making punchy

setting someone back on their heels

causing resentment to

getting on someone

running up the wrong way

pushing someon's buttons

messing

getting on the nerves of

getting in the hair of

pushing one's buttons

belabouring^UK

making an enemy of somebody

putting to some trouble

making severe demands on

giving the cold shoulder

filling with loathing

paralysing^UK

searching high heaven

knocking the wind out of

ill-treating

hurting deeply

causing pain to

making your gorge rise

harshing one's mellow

lampooning

rousting

bringing pressure to bear on

upsetting the applecart

grudging

accosting

blinding

pulling the rug out from under

pulling the rug from under

sticking the knife into

getting the knife into

pushing the buttons of

filling with consternation

paralyzing^US

driving you out of your mind

driving you off your head

making you see red

driving you round the twist

driving out of mind

driving you to distraction

making somebody's blood boil

driving you round the bend

causing inconvenience to

imposing upon

creating difficulties for

sending over the edge

playing cat and mouse

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

entangling

hampering

inflicting

hurting the feelings of

belaboring^US

jumping on one's case

giving the needle

falling on

putting the squeeze on

pouring cold water on

throwing cold water on

bringing tears to your eyes

putting into a funk

chastening

breaking the heart of

knocking the stuffing out of

breaking someone's heart

dragging down

harshing someone's mellow

giving someone the blues

tyrannizing^US

carrying a heavy load

getting into a dither

tyrannising^UK

dampening the spirits of

causing to lose heart

making your head spin

stymieing

bringing up short

causing to be at a stand

staggering

messing with one's head

setting someone thinking

having an adverse effect on

striking down

going against the grain

causing to feel mental strain

causing to feel emotional strain

putting in traction

carping at

giving someone bother

causing someone difficulty

making someone go out of his way

satirizing^US

going through the mill

satirising^UK

pulling someone's leg

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“This person was still following me, and it was beginning to aggravate me.”

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To be triggering a passionate feeling or reaction

galvanizing^US

energising^UK

energizing^US

galvanising^UK

Verb

Present participle for to make worse or more severe

adding fuel to the fire

adding fuel to the flames

rubbing salt in the wound

adding insult to injury

fanning the flames of

“The communication barriers created by rank structures further aggravate these issues.”

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