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What is another word for antagonizing?

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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

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

getting on one's nerves

making somebody's hackles rise

rubbing the wrong way

steaming up

rattling someone's cage

ruffling one's feathers

putting someone's nose out of joint

insulting

disaffecting

enflaming

getting your dander up

driving you up the wall

trying the patience of

giving a hard time

rubbing you up the wrong way

pushing someon's buttons

rattling someone's chain

losing the affection of

distempering

getting your hackles up

sticking in one's craw

setting one's teeth on edge

slighting

chiding

unsettling

getting a rise out of

hurting somebody's feelings

treading on someone's toes

giving offence to

arousing hostility in

colouring^UK

coloring^US

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

breathing down someone's neck

bending someone's ear

terrorizing^US

victimizing^US

tantalizing^US

tantalising^UK

terrorising^UK

gnawing at

picking at

putting the screws on

victimising^UK

throwing off balance

making things hot for someone

putting the squeeze on

bringing pressure to bear on

taking the piss out of

discriminating against

tyrannizing^US

criticizing^US

making it hot for someone

keeping complaining to

criticising^UK

tyrannising^UK

getting across someone

showing antagonism to

feeling ill will towards

showing ill will towards

pushing about

bearing a grudge towards

despairing

suffocating

running up the wrong way

giving someone hell

getting in the hair of

getting on the nerves of

harping on

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

using strong-arm tactics on

causing discomfort to

belabouring^UK

searching high heaven

making someone fed up

sticking the knife into

expelling

singling out

getting the knife into

creating difficulties for

causing inconvenience to

bringing pressure to bear

putting the bite on

jumping on one's case

playing cat and mouse

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

belaboring^US

busting someone's balls

putting someone off their stroke

stumping

throwing into tizzy

causing someone to lose their composure

demonizing^US

demonising^UK

having your knife into

satirizing^US

causing to feel mental strain

causing to feel emotional strain

giving someone bother

putting in a spot

causing someone difficulty

making someone go out of his way

getting into a dither

carping

sweating it out

carrying a heavy load

pulling someone's leg

satirising^UK

twisting someone's arm

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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

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

unsavoury^UK

unsavory^US

unfavorable^US

sombre^UK

somber^US

ill-favored^US

humourless^UK

humorless^US

strictly for the birds

off-colour^UK

off-color^US

rubbing the wrong way

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