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Adjective
Causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty
Imposing or constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load
(
informal
)
Extremely boring
Causing or tending to cause deliberate difficulties and delays
Extremely awkward or complex
Failing to fulfill someone's hopes or expectations
Used or intended to avert or thwart danger or disaster
Verb
To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts
Present participle for to frustrate or prevent (someone) from achieving an aim
Present participle for to fill with distress or alarm
Present participle for to thwart or act against
Present participle for to refrain from openly expressing or displaying
Present participle for to fail to fulfill the hopes or expectations of
Present participle for to evade or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill
Present participle for to be victorious over
Present participle for to cheat, deceive or defraud someone for personal gain
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Adjective
▲
Causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty
aggravating
annoying
bothersome
vexatious
vexing
exasperating
galling
irritating
infuriating
irksome
maddening
provoking
rankling
trying
upsetting
abrasive
challenging
discouraging
pesky
riling
wearisome
carking
chafing
disappointing
disturbing
nettlesome
nettling
peeving
pestiferous
pestilent
pestilential
plaguy
pesty
plaguey
rebarbative
unsatisfying
troublesome
tiresome
displeasing
grating
infernal
disagreeable
confounded
cussed
distressing
troubling
harassing
tedious
nagging
difficult
unpleasant
antagonizing
US
niggling
inconvenient
antagonising
UK
awkward
burdensome
irking
perturbing
unsettling
unwelcome
enraging
wearing
agitating
disconcerting
enough to try the patience of a saint
enough to drive you up the wall
worrisome
teasing
jarring
harrying
objectionable
boring
worrying
wretched
repugnant
thorny
painful
tormenting
forbidding
puzzling
knotty
taxing
discommoding
bedevilling
UK
discomposing
discomforting
incommodious
tricky
mean
unpleasing
agonizing
US
unnerving
unamusing
festering
antipathetic
ugly
wicked
demanding
punchable
agonising
UK
uncongenial
unattractive
impossible
bedeviling
US
traumatic
disquieting
troublous
deplorable
lamentable
problematic
humiliating
afflicting
concerning
stupid
accursed
nauseating
distasteful
unpalatable
plaguing
acid
afflictive
idiotic
harrasive
offensive
goading
insulting
affronting
inflammatory
incendiary
inflaming
agitational
agitative
controversial
in-your-face
nasty
hairy
sticky
tough
alarming
prickly
hard
disruptive
dismaying
inopportune
inexpedient
delicate
unsuitable
untimely
unseasonable
onerous
perplexing
dodgy
problematical
inappropriate
unfavourable
UK
unfavorable
US
sensitive
harrowing
ill-timed
disadvantageous
intrusive
severe
ticklish
embarrassing
unfortunate
distressful
nerve-racking
awful
discommodious
depressing
laborious
touchy
catchy
tricksy
intricate
frightening
creepy
precarious
foreboding
startling
arduous
daunting
dire
sinister
incommoding
off-putting
toilsome
complicated
rough
disgusting
horrid
dreadful
detrimental
complex
uncertain
involved
baffling
vile
foul
inauspicious
abominable
horrible
sickening
spiny
convoluted
critical
unpropitious
iffy
anxious-making
nerve-wracking
dangerous
ill-chosen
hateful
chancy
unhandy
unmanageable
unwieldy
bitter
cumbersome
ominous
gloomy
grave
appalling
tight
threatening
consequential
bleak
impeding
terrible
grim
distracting
scary
repellent
hazardous
frightful
obnoxious
repulsive
mistimed
revolting
perilous
odious
vexed
unsavoury
UK
dubious
detestable
unsavory
US
icky
bad
adverse
tense
uneasy
confusing
fraught
anxious
nervous
restless
pessimistic
prophetic
shocking
loathsome
uncomfortable
ghastly
bewildering
malapropos
distractive
disrupting
diverting
diversionary
nail-biting
risky
infelicitous
nauseous
abhorrent
grievous
nice
punishing
dark
improper
unsteady
unstable
yucky
gut-wrenching
unfriendly
spartan
hostile
suspect
questionable
capricious
temperamental
mercurial
changeable
inconstant
volatile
fickle
rocky
variable
yukky
rotten
unlovely
harsh
badly timed
unappealing
sour
unfit
unbecoming
uncomplimentary
unseemly
remote
prejudicial
confronting
hurtful
provocative
formidable
numbing
discomfiting
intractable
mystifying
flustering
anxiety provoking
unacceptable
yucko
uninviting
bothering
testing
disastrous
untoward
prohibitive
woeful
drag
unhappy
dislikable
pain
reprehensible
insufferable
heavy
intolerable
oppressive
contemptible
uphill
obscene
disobliging
exceptionable
inapt
despicable
beastly
loathly
disheartening
horrific
horrifying
precocious
early
premature
noxious
disgustful
messy
dreaded
demoralizing
US
horrendous
macabre
gruesome
unlikable
dicey
contrary
misplaced
incongruous
unprofitable
unbefitting
undue
unfitting
wrong
ill-fitted
infestive
damaging
repressive
undesirable
fierce
to be avoided
for the birds
strictly for the birds
out of place
beyond the pale
monstrous
grotesque
atrocious
terrifying
unsightly
grisly
unspeakable
intense
gross
hideous
lurid
direful
mighty
unhelpful
harmful
miserable
lousy
acute
execrable
crashing
invidious
grody
injurious
destructive
fearful
rancid
demoralising
UK
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“It can be very
frustrating
to find that the size you want isn't there.”
Adjective
▲
Imposing or constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load
trying
hard
tough
difficult
taxing
fatiguing
stressful
arduous
heavy
demanding
pressured
upsetting
aggravating
bitter
brutal
burdensome
cruel
exacting
exasperating
excruciating
exhausting
fraught
grievous
grim
grueling
US
gruelling
UK
hardhanded
harsh
inhuman
murderous
onerous
oppressive
rough
rugged
searing
severe
stiff
testing
tiring
traumatic
troublesome
wearing
bothersome
hellish
irksome
strenuous
vexing
wearisome
exigent
pestilent
sticky
tight
tricky
weighty
a stinker of a
tense
worrying
challenging
anxious
draining
enervating
sapping
tedious
punishing
harrowing
toilsome
agitating
hectic
crushing
vexatious
rigorous
laborious
nerve-racking
anxiety-ridden
back-breaking
awful
foul
horrible
dreadful
terrible
horrid
rotten
vile
ghastly
nasty
horrendous
unpleasant
appalling
abominable
disagreeable
frightful
atrocious
emotionally draining
grotty
lousy
beastly
hellacious
from hell
a bummer of a
uphill
backbreaking
formidable
wearying
grinding
herculean
moiling
killing
effortful
killer
sweaty
torturous
tall
tiresome
crippling
painful
Herculean
agonizing
US
fierce
Augean
agonising
UK
debilitating
knackering
relentless
intolerable
pick-and-shovel
distressing
galling
stringent
operose
tortuous
labored
US
laboured
UK
ponderous
intense
unsparing
bruising
persnickety
unbearable
daunting
ambitious
distressful
unremitting
serious
strict
painstaking
enervative
toilful
unrelenting
tormenting
extreme
energy-consuming
unforgiving
vigorous
hairy
savage
austere
no picnic
bad
depleting
mighty
colossal
cumbersome
forbidding
merciless
thorny
excessive
uncomfortable
disturbing
troubling
punitive
shattering
tough going
distasteful
titanic
upstream
intimidating
staggering
unyielding
gargantuan
afflicting
ferocious
weary
solemn
slavish
difficile
high-pressure
discomforting
immoderate
steep
inexorable
pressing
grave
wretched
imperious
displeasing
immense
miserable
impossible
unsavoury
UK
yukky
unwelcome
unpalatable
yucky
unpleasing
unsavory
US
dire
sad
worksome
torturesome
gigantic
hurtful
prohibitive
wicked
really hard
very hard
jarring
heartrending
worrisome
inconvenient
embittering
awkward
exorbitant
slow
draconian
drastic
unmerciful
racking
monumental
dour
drudging
energetic
poignant
hefty
extravagant
heartbreaking
pitiless
heart-rending
tragic
ruthless
disquieting
boring
mean
time-consuming
chilling
character-building
uncongenial
unlovely
insufferable
icky
great
dismaying
annoying
offensive
backbreaker
sour
busy
lamentable
dismal
vicious
problematic
ominous
dicey
hazardous
easier said than done
drudgy
unnerving
scabrous
uphill battle
unendurable
hard-won
marathon
gut-wrenching
problem
not easy
almighty
unreasonable
prostrating
domineering
tyrannical
heavy-handed
physical
unfair
hostile
stretching
critical
overwhelming
thorough
abusive
forceful
searching
unjust
overburdening
mammoth
chastening
dogged
spartan
strained
murder
intensive
nagging
knotty
thoroughgoing
shocking
Sisyphean
unkind
large order
heavy sledding
exerting
unenviable
major
soul-sucking
no piece of cake
unfortunate
inordinate
undue
regrettable
woeful
carking
hardworking
superincumbent
strong
unconscionable
swingeing
sharp
overweening
towering
a nuisance
work-intensive
an imposition
overtaxing
overpowering
torturing
raging
wrenching
hardheaded
intractable
overextravagant
overmuch
headstrong
overdue
insane
plethoric
baroque
devilish
unhappy
thankless
rigid
high-impact
like getting blood out of a stone
sore
remorseless
mortifying
intemperate
provoking
inclement
calamitous
afflictive
robust
monotonous
stern
aggressive
bold
frantic
chaotic
hard-hearted
daring
grandiose
uncompromising
active
eventful
frenzied
frenetic
lively
industrious
implacable
mundane
repetitive
grand
elaborate
intrepid
humourless
UK
sedate
humorless
US
staid
sober
repressive
sobersided
flinty
repetitious
longwinded
long-winded
pretentious
impressive
visionary
lofty
unsmiling
obdurate
no-nonsense
uncomic
astringent
tormentous
plaguing
harrying
anguishing
turbulent
restless
magnificent
numbing
mind-numbing
interminable
hard-nosed
po-faced
large-scale
flustering
animated
madhouse
tireless
full
tumultuous
riotous
furious
bustling
wild
plodding
full on
unruly
spirited
rowdy
action-packed
bumpy
raucous
disgusting
repulsive
revolting
gross
repellent
abhorrent
repugnant
nauseating
harmful
hateful
unappealing
detestable
irritating
acute
execrable
crashing
invidious
obnoxious
grody
objectionable
odious
injurious
sickening
destructive
fearful
rancid
pesky
off-putting
more ❯
Adjective
▲
(
informal
)
Extremely boring
deadly
boring
dull
uninteresting
monotonous
tedious
unexciting
dreary
flat
humdrum
lackluster
US
lacklustre
UK
mind-numbing
uneventful
uninspiring
unstimulating
arid
bland
dry
unrelieved
wearisome
irksome
soul-destroying
tiresome
tiring
trying
dull as ditchwater
dullsville
ornery
samey
ho-hum
dry as dust
lacking variation
lacking variety
no great shakes
not up to much
nothing to write home about
prosaic
stuffy
stodgy
drab
pedestrian
stale
slow
colorless
US
ponderous
colourless
UK
heavy
wearying
numbing
tame
jading
drudging
old
monochromatic
dusty
jejune
banal
leaden
insipid
lifeless
weary
vapid
stupid
routine
blah
run-of-the-mill
mundane
unimaginative
commonplace
featureless
soporific
dreich
draggy
ho hum
dull as dishwater
trite
spiritless
unvaried
sterile
monochrome
uniform
plodding
unremarkable
workaday
empty
quotidian
stiff
inane
innocuous
yawnsome
bromidic
lacking excitement
lacking interest
staid
sedate
pompous
fuddy-duddy
square
conventional
difficult
uninspired
characterless
weariful
nondescript
wooden
unoriginal
tired
unenjoyable
passionless
soulless
unentertaining
lame
serious
over-serious
fatiguing
unspirited
derivative
heavy-going
repetitive
repetitious
ordinary
worn-out
prolix
deadening
big yawn
hackneyed
common
unvarying
dead
nothing
recurrent
turgid
mechanical
banausic
vacant
pointless
depressing
monotone
treadmill
reiterated
monotonic
samely
unchanged
unfeeling
wishy-washy
unexcited
expressionless
unchanging
mat
dulled
lusterless
dim
milk-and-water
unexpressive
watery
matte
without variety
all the same
sing-song
sapless
weak
unseasoned
muted
unpalatable
prosy
vanilla
blind
whitebread
flat as pancake
puts one to sleep
laborious
labored
US
laboured
UK
namby-pamby
lead balloon
barren
meager
US
meagre
UK
everyday
plain
mediocre
torpid
vacuous
usual
lustreless
interminable
unexceptional
bloodless
limp
hacky
feeble
unanimated
plain vanilla
anaemic
UK
inoffensive
platitudinous
zestless
enervating
exhausting
nowhere
predictable
undistinguished
sluggish
repeated
anemic
US
middle-of-the-road
long-winded
normal
apathetic
iterative
unmemorable
static
reiterative
common or garden
matter-of-fact
duplicative
zero
antiseptic
pabulum
corny
mindless
average
desolate
dismal
listless
pallid
stereotyped
stock
undistinctive
quiet
uncreative
typical
overlong
undiversified
deadly dull
non-stimulating
customary
repeating
well-worn
garden-variety
day-to-day
sombre
UK
white-bread
neutral
dragging
verbose
clockwork
long-drawn-out
dispiriting
joyless
somber
US
miserable
run of the mill
depressed
toneless
a dime a dozen
threadbare
bleak
plebeian
standard
clichéd
recurring
unpassioned
unlively
endless
safe
pedantic
slack
sleepy
regular
terrestrial
simple
moth-eaten
indifferent
downcast
hollow
lowly
stagnant
unproductive
mainstream
constant
yawn
unadventurous
derived
second-rate
uninventive
stilted
so-so
truistic
recapitulatory
iterant
bog-standard
OK
nitty-gritty
ceaseless
insistent
continual
standard-issue
cut-and-dried
cut-and-dry
inert
sad
not fun
garden variety
unnoteworthy
echoic
automatic
old hat
trivial
gray
US
grey
UK
gloomy
deep
glum
dingy
dark
cheerless
forlorn
shadowy
tenebrous
depressive
macabre
funereal
lonely
grim
dolorous
morbid
usual thing
familiar
long
longwinded
prosing
menial
indistinct
bummer
drag
cloying
drear
bomb
annoying
irritating
uninterested
tepid
sleep-inducing
disheartening
unsatisfying
demoralizing
US
unfulfilling
unappealing
boresome
vexatious
unobjectionable
unmodulated
undemonstrative
cardboard
harmless
halfhearted
diluted
raw
wintry
US
sorrowful
damp
oppressive
windy
wintery
UK
rambling
half-pie
unartistic
wordy
forced
similar
boiled down
without punch
unimpassioned
formal
yawn producing
droning
mortal
poky
snooze
meandering
unimpressed
unmoved
heavy-handed
not so hot
unromantic
unfateful
indecisive
noneventful
inconclusive
dowdy
poor
half-hearted
inadequate
demoralising
UK
unprogressive
inactive
weighty
workday
one-horse
modest
soft
drivelling
UK
nebbish
driveling
US
beige
fatuous
tenuous
slight
subdued
heavy going
institutional
puerile
phoned in
dead-and-alive
homespun
passive
middling
unpretentious
lethargic
useless
hard to digest
emotionless
devoid of feeling
devoid of emotion
homely
fair
futile
passable
cold
slothful
humble
suburban
vain
profitless
inexpressive
run-of-the-mine
medium
tolerable
run-of-mine
second-class
lank
spent
lacking vitality
unrewarding
two-dimensional
dime-a-dozen
not bad
timeworn
overused
dragged out
overworked
plastic
inferior
generic
garden
mean
hack
fruitless
worthless
shopworn
aimless
valueless
unprofitable
purposeless
cliche
straightforward
hackney
musty
businesslike
unembellished
unemotional
unadorned
deadpan
recursive
clean
ineffectual
otiose
unavailing
unsuccessful
bootless
inefficacious
ineffective
abortive
stereotypical
obligatory
cobwebby
cornball
overdone
unfruitful
unfilled
unprolific
clear
hokey
hoary
time-worn
worn out
played out
dime-store
cliché-ridden
frequentative
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Causing or tending to cause deliberate difficulties and delays
obstructive
difficult
contrary
awkward
disobliging
unaccommodating
uncooperative
unhelpful
blocking
delaying
inhibiting
restrictive
stalling
balky
bloody-minded
bolshie
hindering
perverse
thrawn
unconstructive
contrarious
disruptive
froward
making difficulties
obstreperous
troublesome
stroppy
unreasonable
cussed
obstinate
stubborn
recalcitrant
refractory
vexatious
tiresome
hostile
negative
truculent
antagonistic
adverse
contumacious
pigheaded
wilful
intractable
willful
cantankerous
disobedient
unfriendly
obdurate
renitent
annoying
pervicacious
inflexible
unyielding
unbending
trying
exasperating
irritable
discouraging
vicious
destructive
unsupportive
headstrong
unwilling
wayward
mulish
undermining
invalidating
inimical
unresponsive
noncooperative
noncooperating
discrediting
harsh
disparaging
derogatory
critical
untoward
capricious
abrasive
corrosive
offensive
caustic
not cooperative
bull-headed
self-willed
cross-grained
uncompromising
determined
strong-willed
erratic
belligerent
ill-tempered
grumpy
sullen
sulky
confrontational
argumentative
quarrelsome
not helpful
unpredictable
not giving an inch
ratty
bad-tempered
shirty
choleric
narky
pesky
touchy
chippy
disagreeable
discommodious
incommodious
unmanageable
scrappy
hard to handle
rebel
recusant
ungovernable
insubordinate
defiant
incompliant
unruly
rebellious
restive
difficult to handle
arsey
nonconformist
disagreeing
contrariant
paradoxical
nonconforming
dissident
discordant
wrongheaded
ornery
dissentient
antipathetic
converse
spoiling
filibustering
prejudicial
pig-headed
unfavorable
US
peevish
morose
shrewish
crabby
opposed
ill-natured
unsympathetic
unfavourable
UK
disadvantageous
unamenable
impeding
counter
anti
inconsiderate
unadaptable
immovable
sticky
unreciprocate
unreciprocating
nonreciprocal
stiff-necked
rock-ribbed
uncontrollable
fractious
undisciplined
mutinous
noncompliant
disorderly
incontrollable
naughty
badly behaved
wild
mischievous
delinquent
errant
unbiddable
rascally
roguish
impish
undisciplinable
obstinately disobedient
indomitable
disputatious
tough
turbulent
uncompliant
dissentious
spiteful
non-compliant
rowdy
attention-seeking
disputative
flyaway
nonobservant
resistive
indocile
violent
troublemaking
bad
insurgent
seditious
riotous
misbehaving
misbehaved
disaffected
treacherous
contentious
playful
adamant
factious
dogged
resolute
indurate
firm
inexorable
unmalleable
relentless
incorrigible
rude
impolite
wicked
uncomplying
stalwart
steadfast
pugnacious
polemical
tricksy
puckish
brattish
scampish
prankish
sinful
hardheaded
teasing
gallus
fiendish
wanton
worthless
rigid
opinionated
fixed
persevering
rough
wrong
evil
demanding
ossified
steely
intransigent
pertinacious
adamantine
unpersuadable
implacable
persistent
unshakable
tenacious
unflinching
bad-mannered
ill-disciplined
full of mischief
inconvincible
hardened
unshakeable
gladiatorial
aggressive
combative
agonistic
controversial
militant
brawly
assaultive
warlike
feisty
polemic
bellicose
unrelenting
hard
bullheaded
problematic
hard-nosed
iron-willed
thorny
burdensome
knotty
self-opinionated
litigious
captious
cavilling
UK
strong-minded
single-minded
complex
insoluble
set in one's ways
stubborn as a mule
caviling
US
out of control
impossible to cope with
resistant
out of hand
opposing
radical
resisting
insubmissive
withstanding
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Adjective
▲
Extremely awkward or complex
fiendish
difficult
complex
abstruse
challenging
complicated
impenetrable
intricate
involved
knotty
perplexing
thorny
ticklish
unfathomable
baffling
bemusing
puzzling
hard
impossible
tricky
trying
Adjective
▲
Failing to fulfill someone's hopes or expectations
disappointing
depressing
discouraging
disheartening
dispiriting
disillusioning
dismaying
distressing
disenchanting
saddening
upsetting
dissatisfying
regrettable
sad
unfortunate
anticlimactic
disconcerting
unpleasant
displeasing
grim
difficult
troubling
horrific
disturbing
awful
dreadful
testing
unwelcome
unhappy
parlous
worrying
alarming
melancholic
dismal
unfavorable
US
shocking
unnerving
austere
unfavourable
UK
ghastly
unlucky
bad
glum
foreboding
horrible
agonising
UK
off-putting
irritable
irksome
bleak
dire
sombre
UK
bewildering
depressive
distressful
perturbing
bitter
macabre
somber
US
daunting
troubled
poignant
hopeless
cheerless
gloomy
ominous
unpropitious
distasteful
disagreeable
dreary
woeful
melancholy
sinister
morose
appalling
painful
inauspicious
perplexing
distressed
frightening
tragic
sullen
troublesome
mephitical
aggravating
hellish
uncongenial
irritating
annoying
unpleasing
unkind
abhorrent
unpalatable
repellant
galling
repellent
repugnant
loathsome
vexing
agonizing
US
revulsive
unamusing
demoralizing
US
demoralising
UK
dampening
unpromising
oppressive
dejecting
repressing
black
inopportune
hindering
deterring
disadvantageous
dissuading
not encouraging
not hopeful
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Adjective
▲
Used or intended to avert or thwart danger or disaster
defensive
preventive
resistive
averting
arresting
baulking
UK
balking
US
foiling
checking
forestalling
interrupting
thwarting
in opposition
warding off
Verb
▲
To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts
annoying
harassing
aggravating
antagonizing
US
bugging
exasperating
galling
getting
goading
irking
irritating
narking
nettling
peeving
pestering
riling
ruffling
vexing
nagging
upsetting
angering
bothering
displeasing
disturbing
hassling
incensing
infuriating
maddening
making angry
needling
provoking
teasing
agitating
getting to
incommoding
making cross
molesting
perturbing
troubling
worrying
badgering
bedeviling
US
bedevilling
UK
breaking
chafing
distressing
enraging
frosting
gnawing
grating
harrying
henpecking
nudging
persecuting
piquing
plaguing
riding
rubbing up the wrong way
spiting
beleaguering
burning up
driving crazy
driving to distraction
graveling
gravelling
rankling
antagonising
UK
bumming out
driving mad
eating
getting at
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
teeing off
ticking off
winding up
cheesing off
driving round the bend
driving round the twist
driving up the wall
egging on
firing up
getting in your hair
getting on your wick
getting someone's dander up
getting your back up
hacking you off
heating up
making someone see red
making waves
turning off
working on
asking for it
getting on your nerves
giving someone the pip
putting your back up
hitting where one lives
miffing
putting out
inflaming
getting across
rasping
dissatisfying
tormenting
offending
griping
itching
getting your goat
making somebody's hackles rise
outraging
embittering
roiling
trying
getting your dander up
ruffling one's feathers
getting up someone's nose
afflicting
souring
torturing
disaffecting
rattling someone's cage
fretting
paining
discomposing
disgusting
exacerbating
chagrining
getting on one's nerves
getting your hackles up
giving a hard time
trying your patience
driving nuts
envenoming
poisoning
getting someone's wick
alienating
straining
discouraging
besetting
disillusioning
disgruntling
depressing
racking
agonizing
US
dismaying
hurting
making resentful
making bitter
rattling
disquieting
estranging
excruciating
unhinging
flustering
dogging
hounding
humping
mithering
biting
agonising
UK
rubbing the wrong way
sending into a rage
wearing on
rankling with
wearing out
raising your hackles
putting someone's nose out of joint
driving bananas
trying the patience of
disenchanting
getting in someone's hair
making someone's hackles rise
trying someone's patience
getting on someone's tits
getting on someone's nerves
getting someone's hackles up
getting someone's back up
ruffling someone's feathers
getting under someone's skin
bumming
wigging
hacking
getting someone
picking on
wearing
eating at
affronting
aliening
wounding
exciting
rousing
injuring
working up
sticking in one's craw
setting one's teeth on edge
discomfiting
taxing
insulting
hanging up
getting even
upsetting the applecart
harming
testing
embarrassing
mortifying
scandalizing
US
fussing
disappointing
crazing
discontenting
repelling
harrowing
abrading
taunting
perplexing
oppressing
revolting
giving a bad time
grating on
mixing up
disobliging
playing dirty
scandalising
UK
cutting to the quick
zinging
mispleasing
enflaming
madding
iring
disheartening
driving you crazy
cursing
anguishing
dispiriting
driving out of mind
making livid
steaming up
driving you round the bend
umbraging
shattering
driving you off your head
making you see red
driving you to distraction
making somebody's blood boil
distracting
driving you round the twist
possessing
driving you out of your mind
besieging
stretching
wearying
sapping
draining
exhausting
stressing
tiring
inconveniencing
tantalising
UK
tantalizing
US
blighting
empoisoning
jaundicing
unsettling
assailing
unnerving
chilling
daunting
chillin
unmanning
demoralizing
US
worsening
crucifying
making demands on
putting a strain on
wringing
tiring out
making severe demands on
martyring
demoralising
UK
making discontented
bittering
making rancorous
acidulating
venoming
acerbating
burdening
disconcerting
grieving
aggrieving
ailing
concerning
saddening
baiting
fazing
flurrying
niggling
gnawing at
discomforting
stinging
frazzling
distempering
discommoding
haunting
alarming
weighing down
stirring up
pursuing
burning
weirding out
freaking out
affecting
hectoring
derailing
devilling
deviling
hagriding
shocking
discombobulating
exercising
appalling
lying heavy on
causing offense
eating away at
making anxious
heckling
discountenancing
alaruming
undoing
jarring on
making uneasy
hurting somebody's feelings
causing suffering to
confusing
slighting
chivvying
bullying
jarring
pricking
throwing
confounding
frightening
dissing
pressing
making miserable
making wretched
weighing heavily on
causing anguish to
dejecting
crushing
confronting
smiting
intimidating
grinding
scaring
importuning
stirring
browbeating
getting across someone
searing
wronging
empurpling
spooking
sickening
crossing
tearing
causing anxiety to
rattling one's cage
breathing down someone's neck
jangling
rubbing you up the wrong way
driving you up the wall
throwing off balance
preying on your mind
weighing on
putting down
causing trouble to
pothering
giving offence to
nagging at
facing
ribbing
chaffing
ragging
tyrannizing
US
moving
coercing
bewildering
forcing
victimizing
US
preoccupying
dashing
abusing
hazing
despairing
pressurizing
US
pushing
dragooning
striking
disrespecting
cutting
horrifying
shaking
attacking
scourging
chivying
stewing
bringing down
nauseating
boring
grilling
flooring
puzzling
indisposing
browning off
casting down
interrupting
chastening
putting pressure on
messing with
flipping out
getting down
obsessing
hanging over
causing concern to
making unhappy
eating up
getting a rise out of
victimising
UK
getting on the wrong side of
making uncomfortable
keeping on at
tyrannising
UK
causing discomfort to
pressurising
UK
putting off
raising hell
cutting up
deranging
festering
startling
occupying
bedogging
causing disquiet to
getting on someone
touching
running up the wrong way
keeping after
prodding
messing
pushing someon's buttons
bristling
riling up
steaming
psyching out
throwing off
mistreating
causing annoyance to
causing resentment to
setting someone's teeth on edge
resenting
panicking
thrilling
chiding
pushing one's buttons
arousing hostility in
tangling
trolling
occupying thoughts
making someone scratch their head
fearing
sweating
inciting
rattling someone's chain
devastating
strapping
desolating
doing a number on
arousing anxiety in
pushing buttons
making it tough for
nit-picking
jarring upon
grating upon
wearing upon
piercing
boiling
making sore
blowing up
arousing
losing one's temper
suffering from
making restless
unquieting
making fretful
putting on edge
hitting a sour note
getting on
making an enemy of somebody
setting on edge
taking a rise out of
starting
setting on
setting off
working into lather
grizzling
terrorizing
US
repulsing
going on at
bringing pressure to bear on
bruising
consuming
leaning on
boiling over
whipping up
causing offense to
making indignant
causing offence to
keying up
turning
incapacitating
flipping
rocking the boat
laying up
cramping
turning on
debilitating
making a scene
lying heavily on
kicking up a fuss
kicking up a stink
dampening spirits
breaking one's heart
rousting
rending
making someone fed up
becoming bored
grating at
having had enough
losing patience
sweating out
dunning
bullyragging
noodging
dragging down
making blue
putting a damper on
putting into a funk
breaking the heart of
terrifying
accosting
stressing out
jerking around
mourning
pushing the buttons of
thumbing nose at
causing suffering
causing anguish
bleeding
causing sorrow
lambasting
niggling at
tiffing
huffing
petting
preying on
making gloomy
making desolate
taking the heart out of
making despondent
snubbing
making it hot for someone
hunting
terrorising
UK
beating
exiling
sticking the knife into
expelling
making things hot for someone
singling out
getting the knife into
slapping
sticking it to
dishing it out
giving it to
dishing out
overcharging
slurring
giving offence
humiliating
treading on someone's toes
gutting
putting
causing agony to
punishing
playing cat and mouse
putting through wringer
rubbing salt in wound
overwhelming
slandering
dumping on
giving the cold shoulder
criticizing
US
criticising
UK
dispraising
giving a zinger
entangling
hampering
aggressing
giving the business
jumping on one's case
putting the squeeze on
falling upon
starting in on
giving the needle
falling on
impeding
hindering
bending someone's ear
carping at
intruding upon
imposing on
flummoxing
fuddling
cowing
putting into a flap
putting someone off their stroke
disrupting
stumping
making nervous
throwing into tizzy
causing someone to lose their composure
shaking up
throwing into a tizz
gripping
subjugating
kidding
visiting
taking
mocking
dominating
buffeting
buffetting
ridiculing
deriding
maltreating
joshing
joking
jiving
razzing
subjecting
rallying
satirizing
US
roasting
bantering
twitting
compelling
gibing
enslaving
guying
funning
hegemonizing
quizzing
making
pressuring
driving
impelling
wheedling
cajoling
steamrollering
chiacking
exploiting
overthrowing
arguing
obligating
obliging
railroading
bulldozing
shucking
smoking
ruling
rotting
mastering
sledging
muscling
constraining
talking
swaying
sandbagging
impressing
handicapping
encumbering
saddling
despotizing
trampling
ruling with a rod of iron
putting screws to
beating down
keeping down
riding roughshod over
trampling on
weighing heavy upon
holding sway over
trampling underfoot
holding down
grinding down
ill-treating
ruling with an iron hand
controlling
treating harshly
tyrannizing over
walking all over
ruling over
putting upon
spoofing
slamming
snapping
sounding
having on
poking fun at
making a monkey of
poking borak at
making sport of
flouting at
leading on
jibing at
laughing at
poking mullock at
pulling someone's leg
putting on
pulling one's leg
taking the mickey
slinging off at
taking the piss out of
ragging on
scoffing at
making fun of
sending up
messing around
goofing on
swipeing at
jeering at
flirting with
satirising
UK
making jokes about
blackjacking
insisting on
enforcing
twisting someone's arm
coming at
putting the heat on
prevailing on
having someone do something
putting the screws on
using strong-arm tactics on
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“When you see these polls that show your popularity down a bit, it doesn't
frustrate
you?”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to frustrate or prevent (someone) from achieving an aim
thwarting
foiling
blocking
checking
stopping
baffling
countering
defeating
disappointing
spoiling
circumventing
forestalling
barring
dashing
nullifying
balking
US
baulking
UK
crushing
derailing
hindering
impeding
obstructing
quashing
scotching
stymieing
confronting
fettering
hampering
snookering
stifling
beating
checkmating
crippling
discomfiting
hamstringing
hobbling
inhibiting
neutralising
UK
neutralizing
US
banjaxing
fouling up
putting a stop to
scuppering
annulling
arresting
cancelling
UK
canceling
US
conquering
counteracting
cramping
crimping
forbidding
halting
licking
negating
obviating
outwitting
overcoming
precluding
preventing
prohibiting
ruining
screwing up
stumping
doing for
nipping in the bud
hanging up
holding up
putting a brake on
putting the kibosh on
putting the lid on
cramping one's style
dashing one's hope
standing in the way of
upsetting the applecart
giving the run around
rendering null and void
curbing
restraining
holding back
trammelling
trammeling
interfering with
encumbering
handicapping
retarding
restricting
shackling
suppressing
destroying
opposing
putting paid to
disrupting
quelling
repressing
throwing a spanner in the works
putting an end to
deterring
cumbering
delaying
handcuffing
slowing down
sabotaging
interrupting
subduing
embarrassing
hog-tying
clogging
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
constraining
bridling
squelching
staving off
undoing
queering
stalling
manacling
averting
squashing
extinguishing
short-circuiting
ending
heading off
tying up
upsetting
smashing
getting in the way
demolishing
warding off
messing up
clobbering
wrecking
stonewalling
fending off
slowing
borking
dishing
annihilating
getting in the way of
shattering
cracking down on
limiting
crabbing
curtailing
lousing up
avoiding
devastating
marring
impairing
nobbling
intercepting
confounding
terminating
putting a spoke in someone's wheel
abolishing
shutting out
overturning
wiping out
bringing to an end
holding off
deflecting
nixing
putting the stopper on
putting the mockers on
debarring
interfering
subverting
bilking
stamping out
undermining
setting back
finishing
cutting off
shutting down
routing
crossing
sandbagging
killing
escaping
putting down
snuffing out
repulsing
getting rid of
entangling
damaging
clamping down on
slapping down
controlling
defending against
working against
diverting
eradicating
vanquishing
silencing
scuttling
quenching
suspending
blighting
traversing
helping
smothering
extirpating
blowing
interdicting
invalidating
resisting
shelving
taking wind out of
forfending
parrying
pre-empting
vitiating
contravening
repelling
eluding
braking
taking down
binding
choking
making a mess of
putting off
canceling out
cancelling out
playing havoc with
ruling out
blowing a hole in
giving a hard time
bringing to naught
shutting off
breaking
offsetting
evading
injuring
confusing
rooting
harming
destabilizing
US
snafuing
obliterating
staying
dampening
dispatching
eliminating
chillin
chilling
disempowering
decimating
sidestepping
bypassing
spiking
shaking
inconveniencing
tying
weakening
cornering
reducing
giving the slip
debilitating
obscuring
botching
skirting
overthrowing
stultifying
preempting
disconcerting
bottlenecking
cutting short
destabilising
UK
remitting
throwing monkey wrench in
overwhelming
trashing
cruelling
taming
pausing
euchring
anticipating
intermitting
cooling
abrogating
rattling
rebutting
mucking up
fazing
confining
rebuffing
steering clear of
weighing down
withholding
putting a wrench in the works
reining in
fighting back
holding
doing in
overruling
holding in
holding down
standing off
putting a damper on
choking off
chaining
picking off
turning aside
dragging your feet
getting the better of
stemming the flow of
running counter to
getting in before
keeping back
sitting on
second-guessing
redressing
counterchecking
providing against
getting ahead of
rendering ineffective
putting to flight
brushing off
beating someone to the draw
closing off
sending packing
turning away
keeping off
driving back
wreaking havoc
beating someone to the punch
making ineffective
thrusting back
forcing back
stealing a march on
turning back
causing havoc
putting a spanner in the works
beating back
driving away
making a hash of
beating someone to it
keeping at bay
seeing off
beating off
fighting off
countermoving
finishing off
bucking
attacking
worsting
incapacitating
ravaging
discontinuing
throwing
disabling
threatening
compromising
bringing to a close
making an end of
getting out of
suffocating
throwing a curve
bollixing
puzzling
hurting
halting in its tracks
gaining
triumphing
throwing a monkey wrench in the works
dodging
aborting
mystifying
burdening
muzzling
clouding
diminishing
ducking
strangling at birth
breaking up
breaking down
circumnavigating
cracking down
nonplussing
scrunching
squishing
withstanding
petering out
ceasing
shunning
intruding on
commandeering
flummoxing
disturbing
affecting
freezing
damming
counterplotting
burying
blanking
wreaking havoc with
strangulating
weeding out
preventing from making progress
leashing
straitening
disfiguring
influencing
tampering
shunting
pigeonholing
dead-ending
catching
eschewing
mastering
trampling on
enmeshing
ensnaring
capturing
netting
forefending
snowing under
jamming
conflicting
discommoding
incommoding
troubling
crashing
unsettling
juking
keeping lid on
ditching
snagging
putting the damper on
sweeping aside
outlawing
tethering
saddling with
enjoining
boxing in
overpowering
scarring
warding
tainting
postponing
eroding
hanging fire
missing
throwing a spoke in the wheel of
heading off at pass
preparing for
acting against
demoralizing
US
attenuating
throwing cold water on
detaining
retardating
taking out of play
putting the brakes on
subjugating
bringing an end to
putting on hold
besting
staining
denting
afflicting
deferring
protracting
shoving aside
stemming
defying
emasculating
sapping
hemming in
beating down
causing setback
surmounting
taking wind out of sails
putting end to
proroguing
pouring cold water on
putting on back burner
softening
challenging
demoralising
UK
tiing one's hands
decaying
keeping at arm's length
knocking down
chasing away
driving off
keeping away
forcing off
keeping in
slowing up
holding over
bogging down
backing off
putting back
bringing to screeching halt
holding off on
prolonging
making late
throwing a monkey wrench into
reining
dragging through the mud
putting on brakes
counterbalancing
cheating
shipwrecking
queering the pitch of
clipping one's wings
detracting from
containing
swallowing
muffling
dominating
poking full of holes
glitching up
counterpoising
staunching
moderating
governing
prevailing over
gaining control of
winning against
triumphing over
getting a grip on
gaining mastery over
keeping
bottling up
discouraging
choking back
regulating
damping
saving
letting
playing off
cooking someone's goose
compensating for
countervailing
negativing
balancing
keeping in check
rescinding
repealing
taking the wind out of your sails
pulling in
slackening pace
keeping under control
keeping a lid on
biting back
voiding
revoking
reversing
bringing to a standstill
toppling
making up for
correcting
vacating
disannulling
playing for time
countermanding
retracting
dissolving
equalizing
US
counterweighing
balancing out
razing
nulling
turning off
wracking
abating
throttling
screening
unbuilding
complicating
counterweighting
defusing
equalising
UK
deactivating
evening up
squaring up
overriding
skinning
impoverishing
crazing
removing
dumping
blackballing
impugning
dinging
bringing down
rendering invalid
breaking with
rolling back
turning down
turning thumbs down
flying in the face of
striking down
monkeying with
putting at risk
raining on someone's parade
ballsing up
forcing away
blockading
barricading
guarding
closing
blocking off
plugging
decelerating
banning
proscribing
walling off
stopping up
constricting
defending
procrastinating
sealing
caulking
loading
stoppering
charging
overloading
disallowing
lading
closing up
clogging up
blocking up
filibustering
saddling
dissuading from
circumscribing
fencing
walling
disadvantaging
weighting
delimiting
slackening
estopping
entrammelling
entrammeling
quitting
lessening
dropping
lumbering
miring
closing out
overburdening
freighting
oppressing
quieting
stuffing
straining
corking
packing
keeping waiting
blocking out
bunging
denying access
choking up
filling
plugging up
gagging
tying down
occluding
breaking off
bunging up
shutting in
desisting from
leaving off
cutting out
laying off
packing up
knocking off
packing in
giving over
refusing
excluding
sidetracking
straitjacketing
hanging on
resisting attack
holding the fort
capping
worrying
bothering
putting straitjacket on
sidelining
causing to wait
causing to stay
making difficult
setting limits on
imposing limits on
tying someone's hands
boycotting
blacklisting
putting at a disadvantage
putting a crimp in
filling up
placing at a disadvantage
getting bogged down
giving disadvantage
taking out
holding at bay
putting out of commission
ostracizing
US
withdrawing
jamming up
stanching
intervening
renouncing
standing in the way
making impossible
wasting time
narrowing down
keeping within the limits of
staving
bringing to end
bringing to a halt
congesting
bottling
tempering
stunting
holding the line
buying time
ostracising
UK
embargoing
making illegal
heaping
cramming
brimming
bogging
employing delaying tactics
decreasing
lagging
embogging
reefing
loitering
qualifying
jam-packing
topping
ramming
indisposing
forbidding to
damming up
topping off
ramming in
filling in
cutting in
taking away
cutting down
cutting back
letting down flaps
winding down
losing steam
anchoring it
losing speed
putting the brakes on
hitting the brakes
fortifying
letting up
kicking the can down the road
bolting
securing
locking
fastening
protecting
strengthening
latching
adjourning
rescheduling
tabling
mothballing
binding up
taping up
corking up
respiting
continuing
overtaxing
stressing
taxing
extending
lengthening
waiving
putting on the back burner
setting aside
taking a rain check on
carrying over
putting on ice
holding in abeyance
putting in cold storage
putting over
laying on the table
laying over
giving rain check
bringing to a stop
blowing the whistle on
putting a cork in
winding up
closing down
pulling the plug on
more ❯
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frustrate
the plan, and these will be partly grounded on the historical significance of the site that has been chosen.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to fill with distress or alarm
dismaying
upsetting
disturbing
perturbing
distressing
worrying
bothering
alarming
agitating
unsettling
discomposing
disquieting
disconcerting
unnerving
troubling
disheartening
daunting
discouraging
concerning
dispiriting
rattling
depressing
discomforting
flustering
flurrying
distracting
ailing
fazing
fussing
unhinging
distempering
frightening
demoralising
UK
demoralizing
US
scaring
shaking
alaruming
saddening
vexing
frazzling
shocking
confounding
startling
discomfiting
perplexing
throwing
undoing
bewildering
exercising
horrifying
hagriding
nonplussing
derailing
terrifying
abashing
chilling
chillin
terrorising
UK
terrorizing
US
panicking
unmanning
dashing
dumbfounding
appalling
spooking
disappointing
surprising
discountenancing
chagrining
affrighting
embarrassing
flummoxing
puzzling
disillusioning
mystifying
disenchanting
disgruntling
paralysing
UK
pothering
paralyzing
US
taking aback
shaking up
freaking out
weirding out
throwing off balance
getting to
knocking for six
putting off
knocking sideways
putting the wind up
letting down
giving a turn
fouling up
screwing up
filling with consternation
messing up
throwing into a tizzy
confusing
dejecting
discombobulating
baffling
ruffling
deterring
crushing
cowing
sapping
dampening
muddling
casting down
psyching out
weakening
fuddling
addling
undermining
enervating
subduing
making downhearted
damping
mortifying
graveling
gravelling
disorienting
putting someone off their stroke
bemusing
bamboozling
throwing cold water on
befuddling
pouring cold water on
beating
foxing
befogging
knocking the stuffing out of
making someone scratch their head
afflicting
emasculating
hassling
enfeebling
disinclining
making dejected
exciting
disempowering
disparaging
hurrying
weighing heavily on
bustling
disarranging
putting a damper on
stirring up
working up
bringing low
giving someone the blues
stupefying
mazing
buffaloing
stumping
putting into a flap
flabbergasting
throwing into a tizz
wildering
causing to be at a stand
stunning
flooring
posing
muddying
fogging
staggering
blowing your mind
getting
mixing up
going to your head
setting someone thinking
discommoding
exasperating
clouding
aggravating
provoking
fluttering
hustling
putting out
overwhelming
quickening
unstringing
consternating
casting a shadow
thwarting
intimidating
heating
setting back
making nervous
desolating
devitalizing
putting on edge
crazing
sending into a spin
flipping
making waves
dazing
making dispirited
humbling
making crestfallen
weighing down
humiliating
indisposing
disorganizing
deflating
unzipping
jumbling
snarling
crippling
unglueing
ungluing
debilitating
disordering
bugging
causing someone to lose their composure
obfuscating
snowing
unbalancing
hindering
messing with one's head
making your head spin
stymieing
making punchy
bringing up short
disorientating
intoxicating
balling up
throwing off
inebriating
balking
US
baulking
UK
sending up
taking apart
blowing out
blowing up
putting down
getting down
bringing down
catching off balance
taking steam out
taking by surprise
making someone fed up
stopping someone in their tracks
awing
aweing
putting out of countenance
setting someone back on their heels
putting someone off their stride
upsetting the applecart
trying
overawing
irking
prostrating
repressing
drooping
making despondent
beating down
dampening the spirits of
breaking one's heart
causing to lose heart
taking the wind out of your sails
eluding
astonishing
astounding
striking dumb
boggling the mind of
getting at
throwing for loop
defeating
amazing
annoying
harassing
bowling over
irritating
fretting
rocking
making uneasy
jolting
dumfounding
tormenting
thunderstriking
making anxious
plaguing
pestering
displeasing
surprizing
galling
peeving
burning up
blowing away
angering
leaving open-mouthed
making uncomfortable
riling
nettling
browbeating
bullying
grieving
petrifying
narking
needling
leaving aghast
paining
knocking out
oppressing
hurting
agonizing
US
piquing
hacking off
gnawing at
agonising
UK
giving a hard time
knocking for a loop
miffing
wounding
taking your breath away
torturing
offending
shaming
nagging
jarring
aggrieving
electrifying
niggling
straining
picking on
rendering speechless
boggling the mind
throwing a curve
springing on
chafing
frighting
moving
spiting
sickening
persecuting
affecting
repelling
scarifying
rattling one's cage
deranging
bedevilling
UK
bedeviling
US
benumbing
chastening
besetting
boggling
burdening
harrying
stressing
dissing
scaring to death
giving someone grief
bumming out
ticking off
grating
haunting
outraging
rasping
eating
frosting
griping
itching
rousing
bulldozing
demeaning
making self-conscious
traumatizing
US
dementing
impressing
disrupting
insulting
tangling
badgering
overcoming
frenzying
owning
inflaming
stiffing
harrowing
egging on
showing up
throwing into tizzy
dissatisfying
winding up
interrupting
tricking
striking terror into
antagonizing
US
making a scene
making fretful
turning on
getting across
beleaguering
traumatising
UK
racking
antagonising
UK
scaring away
stinging
hounding
eating away at
injuring
disobliging
snubbing
giving a bad time
causing anxiety to
flipping out
trapping
curdling the blood
pulling the rug from under
chilling to the bone
pushing buttons
ridiculing
scaring the bejesus out of
pulling the rug out from under
scaring off
lying heavy on
making teeth chatter
causing anguish to
giving offence to
making miserable
making wretched
making one's hair stand on end
making one's blood run cold
weighing on
hurting somebody's feelings
cutting to the quick
rankling with
giving a shock
putting one away
making someone jump out of their skin
causing anxiety
shooting down
knocking over with feather
knocking over
wrong-footing
causing concern to
catching out
cutting down to size
causing discomfort to
taking down a peg or two
driving up the wall
taking down
sticking it to
destabilizing
US
preoccupying
dizzying
worsting
incommoding
destabilising
UK
blinding
despairing
unquieting
gobsmacking
confusticating
striking
causing disquiet to
touching
making restless
galvanizing
US
revolting
disgusting
blinding someone with something
inconveniencing
confuscating
fearing
stewing
sweating
goading
nauseating
scandalizing
US
dazzling
uncalming
springing
inciting
galvanising
UK
shattering
affronting
arousing
scaring the daylights out of
stimulating
catching unawares
fermenting
burning
roiling
grinding
knocking props out
thickening
complicating
involving
causing wonder
striking with awe
making awkward
making ashamed
putting away
making speechless
anguishing
cursing
making jump
giving someone a jolt
giving someone a fright
turning
incapacitating
cramping
possessing
entangling
encumbering
throwing a curveball
throwing for a loop
hacking you off
preying on your mind
firing up
slighting
mucking
raveling
US
ravelling
UK
stumbling
getting on one's nerves
hanging up
dogging
pushing
strapping
tantalising
UK
martyring
pricking
breaking
tantalizing
US
nit-picking
keying up
laying up
getting someone
tripping up
niggling at
nagging at
causing suffering to
rocking the boat
bugging up
making flip
catching one short
mixing you up
numbing
devastating
scandalising
UK
causing to panic
doing a number on
arousing anxiety in
eating at
making it tough for
cutting up
making a monkey of
putting on the spot
putting in a spot
putting in a hole
snarling up
muddying the waters
underwhelming
disrespecting
hectoring
locoing
blackjacking
conquering
embittering
getting on your wick
slurring
zinging
dragooning
dampening spirits
grossing out
dashing the hopes of
shattering the illusions of
dashing hopes
bullyragging
dragging down
making blue
putting into a funk
breaking the heart of
raising someone's eyebrows
hitting like ton of bricks
completely surprising
shaking out of your complacency
bogarting
taunting
railroading
squashing
rubbing up the wrong way
putting your back up
giving offence
putting someone's nose out of joint
causing offense
turning off
treading on someone's toes
getting your goat
tyrannizing
US
baiting
jeering
bludgeoning
maddening
barracking
booing
flattening
cracking
filling with fear
scaring witless
shouting down
scaring stiff
scaring the pants off
tyrannising
UK
giving someone goose pimples
strong-arming
teasing
hissing
hazing
riding
debunking
belittling
destroying
quashing
scaring someone out of their wits
scaring the living daylights out of
giving someone the heebie-jeebies
chilling to the marrow
mau-mauing
putting the fear of God into
abrading
leaning on
freezing your blood
making insane
driving mad
getting the wind up
gibing
chivying
throwing into a blue funk
pushing around
stirring
throwing into a fright
letting wind out of sails
knocking down
puncturing balloon
letting down easy
making one's flesh creep
giving one the creeps
wearing
turning on the heat
jibing at
shouting at
heckling
scaring someone half to death
outsmarting
exposing
outwitting
shouting catcalls at
butting in
making game of
disgracing
debasing
outfoxing
playing
degrading
abasing
cheapening
fouling
smearing
lowering
reproaching
tripping
defiling
sinking
discrediting
dishonoring
US
blotting
dishonouring
UK
putting someone in their place
taking down a peg
giving a black eye
making someone feel ashamed
making someone eat crow
catching on the hop
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to thwart or act against
traversing
hindering
obstructing
opposing
impeding
checking
thwarting
baulking
UK
balking
US
countering
crossing
counteracting
contradicting
denying
combatting
combating
disaffirming
fighting
gainsaying
impugning
negating
resisting
contravening
bucking
contesting
disputing
dueling
US
duelling
UK
negativing
repelling
withstanding
going against
acting against
defying
confronting
inhibiting
stopping
halting
blocking
restraining
stemming
preventing
curbing
putting up a fight against
striving against
struggling against
eliminating
ending
tackling
warring
oppugning
resolving
making a stand against
coping with
battling against
putting an end to
bringing to an end to
challenging
protesting
battling
relucting
refusing
taking on
taking issue with
setting your face against
countervailing
objecting to
standing up to
facing down
dissenting with
baulking at
fighting against
kicking against
speaking out against
taking up arms against
refusing to accept
stonewalling
locking horns with
taking a stand against
contending with
rebelling against
attacking
facing
controverting
taking a stand
flying in the face of
meeting head-on
rebutting
arguing
encountering
disagreeing
disapproving
disliking
dissenting
taking
assailing
assaulting
counterattacking
withstaying
not countenancing
speaking against
arguing with
calling in question
arguing against
reacting
frowning at
running counter to
disagreeing with
standing up and be counted against
not supporting
quarreling with
disapproving of
taking issue
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to refrain from openly expressing or displaying
repressing
suppressing
stifling
restraining
smothering
curbing
checking
containing
swallowing
controlling
strangling
concealing
inhibiting
muffling
sinking
hiding
submerging
silencing
gagging
pocketing
overpowering
corking
shushing
blocking
bottling
internalising
UK
internalizing
US
holding back
keeping back
choking back
fighting back
bottling up
biting back
keeping in check
reining in
holding in
keeping under control
corking up
buttoning up
keeping the lid on
keeping in
keeping under wraps
blacking out
jamming up
keeping inside
withholding
overcoming
conquering
biting one's lip
bridling
covering up
keeping a lid on
keeping secret
hushing up
quenching
veiling
cloaking
dissembling
disguising
burying
holding down
restricting
gulping back
keeping quiet about
keeping dark
stopping
quashing
deadening
constraining
masking
extinguishing
censoring
belying
harbouring
UK
harboring
US
reserving
blotting out
papering over
putting a lid on
not telling
hiding from view
not giving away
keeping unknown
keeping mum about
keeping under your hat
drawing a veil over
keeping cover
mastering
fighting
resisting
denying
holding off
dampening
boxing up
keeping feeling inside oneself
subduing
retaining
muzzling
protecting
stewing
drowning
suffocating
choking
blacklisting
quelling
squelching
cooling
composing
shutting in
killing
keeping a tight rein on
collecting
snuffing
holding in check
mulling over
keeping a rein on
simmering down
sweeping under the rug
keeping quiet
sweeping under the carpet
sitting on
keeping in the dark
glossing over
supervising communications
preventing publication
refusing transmission
putting the lid on
dropping the iron curtain
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to fail to fulfill the hopes or expectations of
letting down
disappointing
failing
dissatisfying
disillusioning
disenchanting
failing to satisfy
breaking your word
falling short of expectations
dashing hopes
falling short
disgruntling
discontenting
disheartening
dismaying
underwhelming
displeasing
dispiriting
embittering
cheating
disobliging
chagrining
leaving much to be desired
not making the grade
upsetting
bringing down to earth
throwing cold water on
pouring cold water on
bumming out
casting down
discouraging
dampening the spirits of
dashing the hopes of
depressing
shattering the illusions of
saddening
taking the wind out of your sails
disconcerting
vexing
disaffecting
disquieting
giving cause for complaint
leaving dissatisfied
exasperating
Verb
▲
Present participle for to evade or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill
eluding
escaping
evading
avoiding
dodging
ducking
fleeing
losing
circumventing
scaping
shaking
shirking
shunning
eschewing
outrunning
ditching
doubling
finessing
flying
foiling
outwitting
shucking
shying
thwarting
escaping from
running from
getting around
shaking off
getting away
getting away from
giving the slip
slipping away from
giving the slip to
running around
steering clear of
running away from
staying shy of
throwing off the scent
weaseling out of
weaselling out of
giving the runaround
shuffling out of
slipping through the net
slipping through your fingers
Verb
▲
Present participle for to be victorious over
conquering
beating
defeating
overcoming
licking
overthrowing
subduing
overpowering
besting
crushing
quelling
vanquishing
worsting
clobbering
mastering
routing
subjugating
annihilating
stuffing
tanking
trouncing
overwhelming
quashing
drubbing
hammering
humbling
pasting
pounding
pulverising
UK
pulverizing
US
repressing
thrashing
triumphing
caning
creaming
demolishing
destroying
skunking
surmounting
undoing
checkmating
dispatching
flattening
foiling
getting
massacring
murdering
overbearing
overmatching
slaughtering
stopping
taking
thwarting
trimming
upending
circumventing
outwitting
owning
shellacking
slamming
totalling
totaling
trashing
whipping
confounding
discomfiting
overmastering
overriding
reducing
throwing
zapping
triumphing over
putting down
prevailing over
rising above
winning against
bringing someone to their knees
getting the better of
succeeding over
blowing out
blowing out of the water
bringing to knees
getting around
walking all over
doing down
giving someone a drubbing
giving someone a hiding
making mincemeat of
putting someone in their place
running rings around
wiping the floor with
shutting down
taking to the cleaners
trampling underfoot
wiping off the map
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cheat, deceive or defraud someone for personal gain
bilking
cheating
doing
conning
defrauding
fleecing
stinging
deceiving
rooking
skinning
swindling
bamboozling
diddling
stiffing
tricking
cozening
ripping off
screwing
euchring
exploiting
fooling
misleading
suckering
swizzling
duping
gulling
hoodwinking
mulcting
shafting
beating
bleeding
buncoing
chiseling
US
chiselling
UK
chousing
clipping
double-crossing
fiddling
finagling
flimflamming
gaffing
hornswoggling
hosing
hustling
nobbling
plucking
reaming
shorting
shortchanging
skunking
snookering
squeezing
sticking
thimblerigging
victimising
UK
victimizing
US
stitching up
circumventing
disappointing
doing in
foiling
overreaching
ruining
shaking down
snowing
thwarting
putting one over on
selling a pup
taking in
taking to the cleaners
doing the dirty on
selling a pup to
pulling a swifty on
taking advantage of
doing someone in the eye
taking for a ride
pulling a fast one on
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