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To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts
Present participle for to annoy or anger a person, either deliberately or inadvertently
Verb
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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
frustrating
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
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
inflaming
putting out
getting across
offending
getting your goat
making somebody's hackles rise
roiling
getting your dander up
getting up someone's nose
outraging
ruffling one's feathers
getting on one's nerves
fretting
rasping
raising your hackles
iring
rubbing the wrong way
rattling someone's cage
getting your hackles up
trying your patience
affronting
griping
enflaming
madding
exacerbating
steaming up
stirring up
rankling with
driving bananas
giving a hard time
baiting
tormenting
itching
trying
umbraging
humping
abrading
sending into a rage
making you see red
rubbing you up the wrong way
taunting
discomposing
insulting
paining
niggling
rattling
disquieting
hounding
empurpling
disgusting
inciting
grilling
chagrining
dissatisfying
crossing
crazing
mithering
biting
hacking
browning off
driving you up the wall
putting someone's nose out of joint
getting someone
burning
raising hell
pricking
afflicting
inconveniencing
discountenancing
flustering
breathing down someone's neck
discommoding
depressing
embarrassing
fussing
making you angry
whipping up
arousing hostility in
trolling
hazing
heckling
bumming
dogging
giving a bad time
grating on
mixing up
souring
wigging
picking on
distempering
jangling
eating away at
running up the wrong way
driving nuts
taking a rise out of
starting
getting a rise out of
setting on
setting off
getting across someone
working into lather
exciting
shattering
unhinging
distracting
possessing
making livid
driving you round the bend
driving you crazy
driving you to distraction
making somebody's blood boil
driving you round the twist
driving you out of your mind
getting someone's wick
bristling
arousing
boiling
making sore
embittering
losing one's temper
blowing up
acerbating
unsettling
disconcerting
dismaying
concerning
flurrying
alarming
unnerving
discomforting
fazing
ailing
perplexing
frazzling
discomfiting
confusing
derailing
freaking out
hagriding
undoing
exercising
weirding out
alaruming
confounding
discombobulating
throwing
mortifying
oppressing
besetting
appalling
grieving
bewildering
hurting
shaking
nonplussing
burdening
shocking
torturing
gnawing at
agonizing
US
harrowing
disgruntling
throwing off balance
haunting
stressing
wounding
shaking up
agonising
UK
abashing
saddening
taking aback
disobliging
stinging
aggrieving
making anxious
racking
frightening
flooring
puzzling
horrifying
making uneasy
putting off
devastating
affecting
daunting
scaring
startling
lying heavy on
cutting to the quick
straining
stunning
traumatizing
US
anguishing
intimidating
moving
weighing down
psyching out
hurting somebody's feelings
knocking for six
chivvying
besieging
disrupting
muddling
demoralizing
US
chivying
spooking
putting someone off their stroke
weighing heavily on
traumatising
UK
causing suffering to
working up
demoralising
UK
surprising
dumbfounding
overwhelming
cowing
cursing
flummoxing
sickening
addling
devilling
deviling
crushing
overcoming
excruciating
setting someone back on their heels
causing offense
intruding upon
disheartening
baffling
preoccupying
dissing
repelling
interrupting
jolting
hectoring
pursuing
jarring
throwing off
making uncomfortable
pothering
knocking sideways
making nervous
nagging at
putting down
deranging
discouraging
dispiriting
mystifying
dejecting
stirring
astonishing
obsessing
stupefying
staggering
dazing
crucifying
fuddling
bullying
disorienting
disarranging
panicking
importuning
preying on
hanging over
tantalizing
US
bowling over
causing anxiety to
putting into a flap
rattling one's cage
making miserable
putting someone off their stride
making someone scratch their head
weighing on
eating at
putting out of countenance
throwing into a tizz
giving offence to
imposing on
tantalising
UK
putting on the spot
putting to trouble
preying on your mind
scandalizing
US
astounding
slighting
occupying
revolting
ridiculing
disordering
terrifying
chilling
chillin
discontenting
flabbergasting
overpowering
awing
aweing
bamboozling
befuddling
touching
rocking
taxing
nauseating
buffaloing
disaffecting
beating
electrifying
debilitating
stewing
bustling
flipping
casting down
rousing
injuring
unbalancing
dunning
messing with
flipping out
catching off balance
getting down
causing to be at a stand
making unhappy
scandalising
UK
putting in a spot
keeping on at
stopping someone in their tracks
causing someone to lose their composure
dumping on
bending someone's ear
keeping after
hanging up
wearing on
taking control of
causing anguish to
making wretched
prostrating
absorbing
destabilizing
US
whelming
gripping
engrossing
bemusing
stimulating
consuming
rallying
overmastering
unstringing
swamping
gibing
unmanning
dampening
ribbing
galvanizing
US
mocking
chaffing
frenzying
wringing
disrespecting
dominating
amazing
joshing
ragging
repulsing
prodding
razzing
grinding
roasting
foxing
mazing
bantering
damping
enervating
desolating
despairing
searing
befogging
stabbing
fearing
sweating
disappointing
dashing
hurrying
stumping
disenchanting
cutting
posing
muddying
disorientating
enthralling
eating up
piercing
testing
browbeating
hindering
indisposing
making a monkey of
knocking out
tearing
making it tough
leading on
taking the wind out of your sails
causing anguish
going to your head
sticking in one's craw
making sad
throwing a curve
setting one's teeth on edge
deeply upsetting
jarring on
making fretful
intruding on
turning on
inflicting trauma
causing discomfort to
knocking the stuffing out of
taking by surprise
taking over
putting on edge
blowing your mind
going on at
destabilising
UK
jibing at
imposing upon
giving trouble
causing concern to
galvanising
UK
martyring
making self-conscious
causing agony to
zinging
pushing buttons
causing anxiety
making a scene
making someone's hackles rise
getting someone's hackles up
getting in someone's hair
trying someone's patience
getting on someone's nerves
ruffling someone's feathers
getting under someone's skin
getting on someone's tits
getting someone's back up
damaging
causing disquiet to
mistreating
slapping
chiding
pressing down on
riling up
niggling at
harping on at
tangling
striking dumb
fluttering
trying the patience of
pushing someon's buttons
messing
assailing
steaming
suffering
hustling
locoing
interfering
meddling
worsting
unquieting
snubbing
setting someone's teeth on edge
quickening
making restless
sweating out
caviling
US
cavilling
UK
occupying thoughts
weighing
causing to panic
slurring
giving offence
humiliating
treading on someone's toes
kidding around
fooling around
devouring
engulfing
consternating
musing
laboring
US
labouring
UK
setting on edge
hitting a sour note
getting on
relucting
rousting
knocking over
throwing a curveball
springing on
driving insane
sending over the edge
uncoupling
deterring
chevying
dizzying
making an enemy of somebody
catching unawares
getting on the wrong side of
lying heavily on
kicking up a stink
kicking up a fuss
accosting
petting
tiffing
huffing
rending
keying up
incapacitating
rocking the boat
laying up
cramping
turning
pressurizing
US
scarring
monopolizing
US
wildering
squirming
bringing pressure to bear on
leaning on
putting pressure on
pressurising
UK
pushing the buttons of
thumbing nose at
causing suffering
bleeding
causing sorrow
lambasting
mourning
pushing
making it tough for
cutting up
strapping
doing a number on
arousing anxiety in
nit-picking
knocking props out
uncalming
convulsing
disorganizing
putting the wind up
imposing
making your gorge rise
tearing apart
fogging
attacking
cracking
noodging
bullyragging
overburdening
disarraying
stressing out
jerking around
reminding
insisting
obfuscating
snowing
hurting the feelings of
tearing to pieces
causing pain to
doing in
jeering
mispleasing
playing dirty
picking at
causing someone distress
offending morals of
causing pain
abominating
filling with loathing
dementing
pulling the rug out from under
pulling the rug from under
making your head spin
stymieing
bringing up short
balling up
intoxicating
messing with one's head
making punchy
setting someone thinking
inebriating
pressing
making discontented
sending into a spin
overloading
monopolising
UK
flapping
sticking it to
giving it to
dishing it out
dishing out
causing trouble to
overcharging
knocking off balance
fidgetting
fidgeting
wronging
causing inconvenience to
creating difficulties for
dumfounding
paralysing
UK
distorting
breaking down
getting worked up
getting in a stew
taking pains
labouring over
fermenting
booing
disadvantaging
impressing
inflicting anguish on
empoisoning
envenoming
disillusioning
making flip
bugging up
hissing
making awkward
throwing into a tizzy
catching one short
putting in a hole
showing up
letting down
sapping
striking
alienating
discommodating
hitting like ton of bricks
raising someone's eyebrows
completely surprising
shaking out of your complacency
paralyzing
US
numbing
thunderstriking
grossing out
giving a turn
balking
US
giving someone bother
causing someone difficulty
making someone go out of his way
dazzling
fixating
subduing
baulking
UK
fouling up
upsetting the applecart
wearying
draining
weakening
spellbinding
estranging
undermining
deflating
sweeping over
hitting for six
leaving speechless
grinding down
blowing away
sweeping someone off their feet
snowing under
making resentful
shouting at
barracking
shouting down
bursting in on
making bitter
coming upon
shouting catcalls at
making game of
casting a gloom upon
dragging
beating down
running down
making gloomy
darkening
pouring cold water on
throwing cold water on
bringing tears to your eyes
dampening spirits
breaking someone's heart
making someone fed up
harshing someone's mellow
giving someone the blues
reducing to tears
making desolate
making despondent
abasing
bearing down
dashing hopes
dulling
keeping under
devitalizing
disparaging
enfeebling
disempowering
boring
impeding
crippling
carping at
softening
arousing pity
tugging at your heartstrings
arousing sympathy
tugging at the heart
bringing low
wearing
throwing into tizzy
kidding
holding
deriding
staying with
joking
jiving
inspiring
satirizing
US
twitting
guying
funning
quizzing
urging
instigating
chiacking
animating
inspiriting
shucking
smoking
rotting
fomenting
sledging
awakening
exhilarating
spoofing
slamming
snapping
sounding
enlivening
having on
flouting at
poking mullock at
pulling one's leg
taking the mickey
ragging on
messing around
goofing on
jeering at
satirising
UK
poking fun at
poking borak at
making sport of
laughing at
pulling someone's leg
putting on
slinging off at
taking the piss out of
scoffing at
making fun of
sending up
swipeing at
flirting with
making jokes about
wakening
bestirring
waking
vivifying
horning in on
butting in on
interfering with
barging in on
awaking
innervating
innerving
lighting a fire under
whetting one's appetite
getting going
firing the enthusiasm of
firing the imagination of
pepping up
spurring on
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Verb
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Present participle for to annoy or anger a person, either deliberately or inadvertently
getting your dander up
getting someone's Irish up
taking offence
going crook
raising your hackles
getting your hackles up
bristling
rearing up
prickling
taking offense
becoming indignant
becoming annoyed
seething
seeing red
getting angry
taking umbrage
bridling
drawing oneself up
“It's important not to
get your back up
when someone offers constructive criticism.”
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