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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 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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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

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

causing suffering to

bending someone's ear

inflicting anguish on

bringing pressure to bear on

miffing

exacerbating

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

driving you up the wall

getting on one's nerves

jumping on one's case

giving the needle

falling on

putting the squeeze on

satirizing^US

taking the piss out of

pulling someone's leg

satirising^UK

victimizing^US

victimising^UK

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

discriminating against

making things hot for someone

tyrannizing^US

tyrannising^UK

criticizing^US

making someone fed up

making it hot for someone

keying up

hurting somebody's feelings

finding fault

putting into a flap

flipping out

putting someone off their stroke

keeping complaining to

putting up to

rubbing you up the wrong way

criticising^UK

causing someone to lose their composure

getting across someone

showing antagonism to

feeling ill will towards

showing ill will towards

pushing about

bearing a grudge towards

browning off

souring

calling names

running up the wrong way

getting your hackles up

giving someone hell

messing

pushing someon's buttons

getting in the hair of

getting on the nerves of

arousing hostility in

jeering

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

breaking the heart of

getting a rise out of

causing resentment to

belabouring^UK

trying the patience of

upsetting the applecart

searching high heaven

sticking in one's craw

setting one's teeth on edge

hunting

exiling

sticking the knife into

expelling

getting the knife into

playing cat and mouse

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

causing someone distress

causing pain

tiring out

making severe demands on

belaboring^US

dishonoring^US

demonizing^US

busting someone's balls

demonising^UK

having your knife into

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

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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 ring around

forming a barrier round

forming a barrier around

setting the limits of

setting the boundaries 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 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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