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What is another word for bedevilling?

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Verb

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

Present participle for to throw into confusion, or cause to be confused

Present participle for to preoccupy the mind of someone, typically in a troubling way

Present participle for to delight, allure or attract in an almost magical manner

Present participle for to take control of someone's body or mind, especially in a supernatural manner

Present participle for to be totally absorbed or engrossed by something

Present participle for to make something more complex

Present participle for to bring bad luck or misfortune to, typically via voodoo or witchcraft

Causing irritation or annoyance

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

bedeviling^US

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

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

breathing down someone's neck

victimizing^US

tantalizing^US

tantalising^UK

bending someone's ear

rubbing the wrong way

inflicting anguish on

victimising^UK

getting on one's nerves

terrorizing^US

making it hot for someone

terrorising^UK

driving you up the wall

getting your dander up

wearing on

rankling with

taking the piss out of

ragging on

weighing on

making things hot for someone

making fun of

singling out

intruding upon

discriminating against

buffeting

getting up someone's nose

making somebody's hackles rise

rattling someone's cage

ruffling one's feathers

putting someone's nose out of joint

harping on at

throwing

giving someone hell

getting in the hair of

getting on the nerves of

labouring^UK

laboring^US

bringing pressure to bear on

causing discomfort to

sticking in one's craw

setting one's teeth on edge

getting across someone

tyrannizing^US

searching high heaven

playing cat and mouse

having it in for

tyrannising^UK

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

getting your hackles up

rubbing you up the wrong way

aggressing

giving the business

jumping on one's case

putting the squeeze on

inflicting suffering on

sticking the knife into

ill-treating

getting the knife into

satirizing^US

pulling someone's leg

satirising^UK

criticizing^US

making someone fed up

keying up

hurting somebody's feelings

finding fault

putting into a flap

flipping out

putting someone off their stroke

mixing up

jangling

plying

keeping complaining to

criticising^UK

causing someone to lose their composure

running up the wrong way

browning off

messing

pushing someon's buttons

arousing hostility in

upsetting the applecart

breaking the heart of

caviling^US

getting a rise out of

cavilling^UK

belabouring^UK

trying the patience of

demonizing^US

causing resentment to

causing to panic

dominating

stacking the deck

demonising^UK

having your knife into

enslaving

tyrannizing over

causing anguish

causing someone distress

causing pain

dissing

tiring out

making severe demands on

belaboring^US

busting someone's balls

dishonoring^US

showing ill will towards

doing an injustice to

ill-using

giving no quarter

stepping on the toes of

taking the heart out of

causing to feel mental strain

causing to feel emotional strain

putting in traction

pushing to the limit

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“Unnecessary disturbing thoughts started to bedevil me and I buried my face in my arms.”

Verb

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Present participle for to throw into confusion, or cause to be confused

“We take a hard look at two deep social problems which bedevil the Order at the dawn of the twenty-ﬁrst century.”

Verb

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Present participle for to preoccupy the mind of someone, typically in a troubling way

Verb

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Present participle for to delight, allure or attract in an almost magical manner

Verb

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Present participle for to take control of someone's body or mind, especially in a supernatural manner

mesmerising^UK

mesmerizing^US

putting under a spell

eating up

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Present participle for to be totally absorbed or engrossed by something

Verb

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Present participle for to make something more complex

Verb

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Present participle for to bring bad luck or misfortune to, typically via voodoo or witchcraft

Adjective

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Causing irritation or annoyance

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

enough to drive you up the wall

enough to try the patience of a saint

bedeviling^US

unfavorable^US

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