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To be triggering a passionate feeling or reaction

(rare) Persuading someone to undertake or acquire something

Present participle for to attract or lure by temptation, typically using deception

Present participle for to deceive or fool someone, typically by luring them

Present participle for to annoy or provoke through teasing

Present participle for to catch or try to catch fish, typically by using a net or hook and line

Something that motivates or provokes a person or thing into action

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Verb

To be triggering a passionate feeling or reaction

working into lather

feeding the fire

Verb

(rare) Persuading someone to undertake or acquire something

Verb

Present participle for to attract or lure by temptation, typically using deception

stringing along

making your mouth water

dangling a carrot in front of

sweeping off feet

batting eyes at

taking for a ride

putting one over on

leading up the garden path

whetting the appetite of

putting someone up to something

keeping someone hanging on

keeping hanging

laying a trap for

fabricating evidence against

fabricating charges against

falsely incriminating

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“But just when he agreed with his inner demons on how he would bait her with his tired and helpless act in the parking lot, a man walked in and approached her with a hug and kiss.”

Verb

Present participle for to deceive or fool someone, typically by luring them

misrepresenting

stringing along

doing a number on

double-crossing

leading up the garden path

playing for a sucker

pulling a fast one on

pulling a swifty on

taking advantage of

taking for a ride

putting one over on

propagandizing^US

giving the wrong impression

sending on a wild goose chase

giving someone a bum steer

putting on the wrong track

propagandising^UK

pulling one's leg

playing trick on

putting up smoke screen

putting on an act

giving wrong information to

leading up garden path

leading down the garden path

putting on false front

pulling the wool over someone's eyes

throwing off the scent

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“The opponent had used a scheme to bait him out of his guard and then sneak attack him from the shadows.”

Verb

Present participle for to annoy or provoke through teasing

hacking you off

taking the mickey

getting on the nerves of

taking the piss out of

getting in the hair of

giving a hard time

rubbing up the wrong way

driving up the wall

getting on your nerves

making sport of

getting under your skin

getting your back up

getting in your hair

poking mullock at

slinging off at

poking borak at

pulling one's leg

giving someone grief

pulling someone's leg

making jokes about

making a monkey of

breathing down someone's neck

making it hot for someone

rubbing the wrong way

giving someone the hump

putting your back up

making your blood boil

getting on one's nerves

making things hot for someone

bending someone's ear

getting your goat

giving someone hell

making a monkey out of

giving the business

discriminating against

driving bananas

hurling insults at

scratching around

playing cat and mouse

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

searching high heaven

having a down on

having it in for

antagonizing^US

driving to distraction

sending into a rage

taking a rise out of

getting a rise out of

hitting where one lives

raising your hackles

getting across someone

working into lather

trying your patience

running up the wrong way

getting your dander up

rattling someone's cage

ruffling one's feathers

losing one's temper

giving someone the pip

getting someone

making someone see red

getting on your wick

getting up someone's nose

making somebody's hackles rise

antagonising^UK

busting someone's balls

taking it out on

finding fault with

keeping complaining to

shouting catcalls at

driving round the bend

driving round the twist

giving a bad time

rattling one's cage

weighing heavily on

causing suffering to

cutting to the quick

making miserable

preying on your mind

traumatizing^US

inconveniencing

making wretched

discombobulating

causing anguish to

causing anxiety to

traumatising^UK

hurting somebody's feelings

discountenancing

causing discomfort to

taking control of

knocking for six

throwing off balance

pressing down on

dampening spirits

causing concern to

making uncomfortable

causing anxiety

deeply upsetting

inflicting trauma

making desolate

making despondent

punishing unfairly

inflicting anguish on

pressurizing^US

pressurising^UK

causing disquiet to

breaking one's heart

putting a damper on

putting into a funk

breaking the heart of

lying heavily on

putting pressure on

bringing pressure to bear on

getting your hackles up

doing a number on

arousing anxiety in

pushing buttons

making it tough for

causing to panic

kicking up a fuss

kicking up a stink

punishing repeatedly and unfairly

driving you up the wall

giving offence to

causing trouble to

causing annoyance to

causing resentment to

rocking the boat

hurting the feelings of

tearing to pieces

gnawing away at

putting the squeeze on

stacking the deck

having your knife into

making severe demands on

making demands on

putting a strain on

jumping on one's case

dishonouring^UK

taking the heart out of

giving the needle

tyrannizing over

putting into a flap

putting someone off their stroke

throwing into tizzy

causing someone to lose their composure

throwing into a tizz

demoralizing^US

taking advantage of

doing an injustice to

causing anguish

causing someone distress

stepping on the toes of

demoralising^UK

causing discomfort

reducing to tears

going for jugular

laying a bad trip on

giving no quarter

showing ill will towards

making someone fed up

casting a gloom upon

harshing someone's mellow

giving someone the blues

knocking sideways

pouring cold water on

throwing cold water on

bringing tears to your eyes

knocking the stuffing out of

breaking someone's heart

causing pain to

having a grip on

becoming an obsession with

having a hold on

descending upon

bringing down on

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“Charlie loved to bait him, but his jibes usually rolled off Travis's back like water off an oilskin tarp.”

Verb

Present participle for to catch or try to catch fish, typically by using a net or hook and line

casting one's net

casting one's hook

baiting the hook

Noun

Something that motivates or provokes a person or thing into action

shot in the arm

kick up the backside

invigoration^US

envigoration^UK

motivating force

carrot and stick

pressurization^US

intellectual nourishment

pressurisation^UK

summons to contest

kick in the pants

animating force

gravitation towards

inclination towards

centre of attention^UK

impelling cause

attention-grabber

attention-getter

center of attention^US

prepossessingness

vested interest

score to settle

object of desire

special interest

animal magnetism

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