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Verb

To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts

Present participle for to implant bitter feelings in (someone)

Present participle for to act in opposition to

Present participle for to cause pain through mistreatment

Present participle for to harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally

Present participle for to offend the moral feelings of

Present participle for to come face to face with someone or something with hostile or argumentative intent

That exasperates, infuriates, annoys or irritates

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Verb

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To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

rubbing up the wrong way

driving to distraction

getting someone's goat

getting under your skin

getting up your nose

giving someone grief

giving someone the hump

hacking off

making your blood boil

driving round the bend

driving round the twist

getting someone's dander up

getting your back up

hacking you off

heating up

making someone see red

getting on your nerves

giving someone the pip

putting your back up

hitting where one lives

getting up someone's nose

griping

making somebody's hackles rise

rubbing the wrong way

steaming up

rattling someone's cage

ruffling one's feathers

getting on one's nerves

putting someone's nose out of joint

insulting

disaffecting

enflaming

getting your dander up

trying the patience of

giving a hard time

trying your patience

rubbing you up the wrong way

pushing someon's buttons

getting a rise out of

rattling someone's chain

driving you up the wall

getting your hackles up

sticking in one's craw

setting one's teeth on edge

losing the affection of

arousing hostility in

colouring^UK

hurting somebody's feelings

treading on someone's toes

coloring^US

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

bending someone's ear

terrorizing^US

victimizing^US

tantalizing^US

tantalising^UK

breathing down someone's neck

terrorising^UK

gnawing at

picking at

victimising^UK

making things hot for someone

criticizing^US

criticising^UK

taking the piss out of

discriminating against

tyrannizing^US

making it hot for someone

keeping complaining to

tyrannising^UK

getting across someone

swipeing at

nagging at

wringing

showing antagonism to

feeling ill will towards

showing ill will towards

pushing about

bearing a grudge towards

threatening

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

giving someone hell

getting in the hair of

getting on the nerves of

running up the wrong way

bringing pressure to bear on

belabouring^UK

searching high heaven

causing discomfort to

sticking the knife into

expelling

singling out

getting the knife into

creating difficulties for

causing inconvenience to

punishing

playing cat and mouse

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

putting the screws on

bulldozing

strong-arming

using strong-arm tactics on

belaboring^US

making someone fed up

putting someone off their stroke

causing someone to lose their composure

jumping on one's case

putting the squeeze on

demonizing^US

demonising^UK

having your knife into

satirizing^US

causing to feel mental strain

causing to feel emotional strain

busting someone's balls

eating your heart out

getting into a dither

sweating it out

carrying a heavy load

giving someone bother

putting in a spot

causing someone difficulty

making someone go out of his way

pulling someone's leg

satirising^UK

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“I fully admit I have gone out of my way on more than one occasion to needle and to antagonize him.”

Verb

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Present participle for to implant bitter feelings in (someone)

driving a wedge between

sowing dissension between

putting at a distance

withdrawing the affections of

breaking off

pitting against one another

splitting up

causing a rift

putting at odds

causing disagreement between

pulling apart

setting against one another

severing connections between

causing antagonism between

destroying the affections of

setting in opposition

kicking down the ladder

reaching a parting of the ways

stopping living together

breaking it off

going separate ways

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“Your harsh and constant criticisms will only serve to antagonize your staff further.”

Verb

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Present participle for to act in opposition to

counteracting

cancelling^UK

canceling^US

“In reasonable doses, the drug will antagonize the depressant effects of thiopental in rats and morphine in rabbits.”

Verb

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Present participle for to cause pain through mistreatment

Verb

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Present participle for to harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally

Verb

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Present participle for to offend the moral feelings of

paralysing^UK

paralyzing^US

raising someone's eyebrows

throwing a curve

completely surprising

knocking for six

setting someone back on their heels

shaking out of your complacency

giving a turn

hitting like ton of bricks

taking the wind out of your sails

Verb

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Present participle for to come face to face with someone or something with hostile or argumentative intent

Adjective

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That exasperates, infuriates, annoys or irritates

enough to drive you up the wall

enough to try the patience of a saint

bedevilling^UK

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

bedeviling^US

unsavory^US

unsavoury^UK

unfavorable^US

sombre^UK

somber^US

ill-humored^US

ill-favored^US

strictly for the birds

humourless^UK

humorless^US

rubbing the wrong way

hard to take

difficult to handle

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