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Verb

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

Present participle for to besiege or surround with troops

Present participle for to tease, typically in a good-natured way

Present participle for to prohibit or interdict the participation or inclusion of

(military) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force

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

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

rubbing up the wrong way

spiting

burning up

driving crazy

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

tantalizing^US

tantalising^UK

breathing down someone's neck

freaking out

bending someone's ear

rubbing the wrong way

getting your dander up

rattling someone's cage

ruffling one's feathers

raising your hackles

rasping

humping

putting someone's nose out of joint

putting out

getting your goat

getting up someone's nose

making somebody's hackles rise

causing discomfort to

bringing pressure to bear on

driving you up the wall

messing with

getting on one's nerves

jumping on one's case

giving the needle

falling on

putting the squeeze on

victimizing^US

victimising^UK

tyrannizing^US

tyrannising^UK

terrorizing^US

brutalizing^US

terrorising^UK

brutalising^UK

discriminating against

making things hot for someone

riding roughshod over

driving bananas

handling roughly

setting one's teeth on edge

rubbing you up the wrong way

using strong-arm tactics on

making it hot for someone

grumbling at

dumping on

sticking in one's craw

scaring the bejesus out of

showing antagonism to

disapproving of

feeling ill will towards

showing ill will towards

bearing a grudge towards

playing the heavy with

suffering

getting your hackles up

trying the patience of

labouring^UK

laboring^US

inflicting anguish on

squirming

punishing repeatedly and unfairly

leading someone a merry dance

playing cat and mouse

boning

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

making an enemy of somebody

getting on the wrong side of

getting a rise out of

upsetting the applecart

searching high heaven

demonizing^US

getting in the hair of

razzing

taking the mickey

getting on the nerves of

taking the piss out of

getting across someone

throwing off balance

lording it over

holding a gun to one's head

putting through the wringer

demonising^UK

having your knife into

putting someone off their stroke

causing someone to lose their composure

dishonoring^US

doing an injustice to

giving no quarter

making fun of

stepping on the toes of

putting the frighteners on

putting the fear of God into

scaring to death

frightening out of your wits

sticking the knife into

expelling

getting the knife into

twisting someone's arm

criticizing^US

giving someone the works

inflicting pain on

working over

inflicting suffering on

keeping complaining to

criticising^UK

busting someone's balls

ruling with a rod of iron

putting screws to

handicapping

beating down

bringing under the yoke

ruling with an iron hand

bringing someone to their knees

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“She would beleaguer him with questions until he either admitted what he was doing or snapped at her.”

Verb

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Present participle for to besiege or surround with troops

coming at from all sides

forming a barrier round

forming a ring around

neighboring^US

forming a barrier around

setting the boundaries of

setting the limits of

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“And yet, I cannot think that any Scottish or French rovers could land in such force as to beleaguer the fortalice.”

Verb

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Present participle for to tease, typically in a good-natured way

satirising^UK

satirizing^US

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

tantalising^UK

tantalizing^US

pulling someone's leg

taking the piss out of

making your mouth water

keeping someone hanging on

making a monkey out of

treating with contempt

treating contemptuously

pulling someone's chain

holding up to ridicule

playing a practical joke

playing a practical joke on

gambolling^UK

gamboling^US

criticising^UK

criticizing^US

getting a rise out of

mucking someone about

catcalling

playing a trick on

taking for a ride

leading up the garden path

shouting disapproval at

cartooning

blowing raspberries at

having a joke on somebody

running down

making a laughing-stock

making someone a laughing stock

laughing out of court

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Verb

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Present participle for to prohibit or interdict the participation or inclusion of

Noun

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(military) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force

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