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What is another word for
giving a hard time
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Present participle for to jovially tease, playfully annoy, or lightly badger someone
Present participle for to make things very unpleasant for someone
Present participle for to impede the work or progress of
Present participle for to annoy, irritate or exasperate (someone)
Present participle for to subject to cruel or unjust treatment
Present participle for to admonish or reproach angrily
Present participle for to make rude and mocking remarks, typically in a loud voice
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Present participle for to jovially tease, playfully annoy, or lightly badger someone
kidding around
teasing
annoying
badgering
baiting
bantering
bothering
chaffing
disturbing
dogging
goading
harassing
joshing
mocking
needling
nudging
pestering
ragging
razzing
ribbing
riding
ridiculing
roasting
taunting
fooling around
leading on
picking on
tormenting
provoking
irritating
plaguing
hassling
guying
gibing
aggravating
heckling
bedeviling
US
bedevilling
UK
hazing
harrying
winding up
taking the mickey
taking the piss out of
kidding
deriding
joking
jiving
rallying
satirizing
US
twitting
funning
quizzing
worrying
hounding
chiacking
shucking
persecuting
smoking
rotting
hectoring
sledging
vexing
importuning
gnawing
deviling
devilling
beleaguering
spoofing
slamming
sounding
snapping
having on
poking mullock at
pulling someone's leg
poking fun at
sending up
making a monkey of
poking borak at
putting on
messing around
goofing on
swipeing at
making sport of
jeering at
slinging off at
pulling one's leg
flouting at
flirting with
messing with
satirising
UK
ragging on
scoffing at
jibing at
laughing at
making jokes about
putting down
making fun of
galling
torturing
narking
irking
getting
hacking you off
nagging
getting on the nerves of
angering
getting in the hair of
jeering
scoffing
frazzling
scorning
insulting
sneering
calling names
making a monkey out of
flouting
disdaining
affronting
offending
scouting
reviling
outraging
reproaching
slapping
upbraiding
digging
louting
jabbing
twittering
sneering at
dumping on
gibing at
getting at
more ❯
Verb
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Present participle for to make things very unpleasant for someone
giving someone hell
harassing
annoying
badgering
bothering
bullying
harrying
hounding
pestering
plaguing
troubling
worrying
baiting
bedeviling
US
bedevilling
UK
deviling
devilling
hassling
intimidating
molesting
terrorising
UK
terrorizing
US
victimising
UK
victimizing
US
making it hot for someone
making things hot for someone
picking on
bugging
disturbing
irritating
irking
nagging
tormenting
vexing
riding
needling
persecuting
aggravating
upsetting
agitating
provoking
driving up the wall
distressing
teasing
fretting
perturbing
exasperating
getting to
dogging
ruffling
peeving
chafing
chivvying
discomposing
galling
hectoring
nettling
narking
trying
displeasing
afflicting
putting out
giving someone grief
eating
riling
piquing
mithering
angering
grating
burning up
getting on your nerves
getting in your hair
hacking off
disquieting
paining
miffing
rattling
beleaguering
heckling
stressing
fazing
goading
fussing
getting
ticking off
flustering
rasping
spiting
offending
disconcerting
frosting
inconveniencing
griping
hurting
discommoding
itching
perplexing
pursuing
chivying
giving a bad time
bumming out
winding up
keeping after
getting across
rubbing up the wrong way
keeping on at
infuriating
incensing
grieving
rankling
alarming
besetting
oppressing
besieging
concerning
discountenancing
graveling
gravelling
throwing
henpecking
straining
distracting
discomforting
ailing
discombobulating
embarrassing
tantalizing
US
going on at
pecking at
tantalising
UK
breathing down someone's neck
picking at
driving round the bend
giving someone the hump
working on
making waves
maddening
unsettling
dismaying
torturing
cursing
agonizing
US
anguishing
burdening
saddening
confounding
disrupting
importuning
browbeating
flurrying
disgusting
frazzling
wounding
prodding
depressing
unhinging
chagrining
incommoding
nudging
distempering
derailing
gnawing
interrupting
weighing down
hagriding
alaruming
dunning
getting your back up
weirding out
harping on at
freaking out
driving bananas
gnawing at
bending someone's ear
getting on your wick
putting on the spot
hanging up
agonising
UK
hacking you off
putting in a spot
driving round the twist
undoing
getting at
getting under your skin
making someone see red
enraging
taunting
racking
disobliging
discomfiting
outraging
inflaming
unnerving
harrowing
criticizing
US
mortifying
scolding
frightening
scaring
berating
bewildering
puzzling
shaking
frustrating
ragging
niggling
aggrieving
attacking
appalling
spooking
dissatisfying
indisposing
abrading
biting
pricking
finding fault
grumbling at
making it tough
grating on
flipping out
finding fault with
driving crazy
giving trouble
keeping complaining to
making uneasy
carping at
criticising
UK
putting to trouble
stirring up
putting your back up
rankling with
throwing off balance
making uncomfortable
exercising
getting on one's nerves
moaning at
putting someone's nose out of joint
egging on
intruding upon
making anxious
making somebody's hackles rise
imposing on
insulting
antagonizing
US
getting your hackles up
getting your dander up
making your blood boil
ruffling one's feathers
trying your patience
getting up someone's nose
boring
impeding
crossing
hindering
pressurizing
US
putting pressure on
bringing pressure to bear on
leaning on
pressurising
UK
reminding
insisting
messing with
driving you up the wall
browning off
making cross
rubbing you up the wrong way
teeing off
driving mad
giving someone the pip
cheesing off
antagonising
UK
making angry
mixing up
turning off
injuring
pushing
strapping
making miserable
desolating
causing suffering to
martyring
doing a number on
breaking
weighing on
arousing anxiety in
pushing buttons
causing anguish to
making wretched
eating at
making it tough for
nit-picking
cutting up
fearing
stewing
sweating
affronting
disgruntling
exacerbating
dragooning
disadvantaging
upbraiding
humping
singling out
urging
egging
excruciating
busting chops
moaning on at
busting someone's balls
taking it out on
causing concern to
preying on your mind
causing discomfort to
grinding
stinging
haunting
discommodating
getting a rise out of
working up
nonplussing
abashing
giving someone bother
causing someone difficulty
making someone go out of his way
assailing
confusing
affecting
overwhelming
curdling
jeering
entangling
hampering
scratching around
searching high heaven
ragging on
yapping at
aggressing
ridiculing
giving the business
jumping on one's case
putting the squeeze on
falling upon
starting in on
giving the needle
falling on
carping
domineering
gibing
burning
horrifying
hazing
chiding
bullyragging
noodging
booing
rattling one's cage
stressing out
jerking around
dumbfounding
crushing
hissing
caviling
US
cavilling
UK
stunning
making a monkey of
throwing into a tizzy
catching one short
making awkward
making self-conscious
putting in a hole
showing up
putting out of countenance
letting down
dissing
barracking
jibing at
shouting down
shouting at
shouting catcalls at
making game of
interfering
meddling
taxing
disappointing
despairing
keying up
hurting somebody's feelings
turning
incapacitating
flooring
crazing
flipping
rocking the boat
laying up
cramping
turning on
firing up
pothering
sickening
debilitating
getting someone
making a scene
testing
causing anxiety to
lying heavy on
tearing
sweating out
ribbing
chaffing
punishing
playing cat and mouse
putting through wringer
rubbing salt in wound
more ❯
Verb
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Present participle for to impede the work or progress of
short-circuiting
hindering
hampering
impeding
obstructing
encumbering
inhibiting
stymieing
trammelling
trammeling
cramping
fettering
handicapping
shackling
clogging
hobbling
manacling
handcuffing
interfering with
embarrassing
holding back
holding up
hog-tying
tying up
curbing
frustrating
foiling
cumbering
hamstringing
cramping one's style
thwarting
restraining
disrupting
checking
blocking
slowing
barring
standing in the way of
binding
hanging up
getting in the way
baulking
UK
chaining
throwing a spanner in the works
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
entangling
balking
US
baffling
braking
delaying
stopping
retarding
screwing up
saddling with
getting in the way of
damming
putting a brake on
rattling
discomfiting
deterring
cutting off
closing off
scuppering
shutting down
shutting off
interfering
slowing down
borking
fouling up
opposing
stonewalling
disconcerting
freezing
crippling
derailing
fazing
subverting
sabotaging
disempowering
destabilizing
US
shaking
demoralizing
US
attenuating
sapping
sandbagging
emasculating
undermining
demoralising
UK
queering the pitch of
poking full of holes
putting the kibosh on
botching
softening
challenging
clipping one's wings
destabilising
UK
dragging through the mud
restricting
preventing
limiting
constraining
interrupting
arresting
stalling
bridling
forestalling
confining
crimping
tying
setting back
halting
counteracting
detaining
prohibiting
keeping back
repressing
staying
holding
curtailing
choking
suppressing
straitening
controlling
interdicting
slowing up
putting off
stifling
bogging down
decelerating
forbidding
defeating
nipping in the bud
shelving
crabbing
reducing
averting
moderating
regulating
retardating
postponing
withholding
contravening
weighing down
warding off
reining in
staving off
choking off
stemming
precluding
smothering
suspending
disadvantaging
inconveniencing
discontinuing
putting an end to
dissuading from
leashing
scotching
constricting
burdening
slackening
spoiling
debarring
neutralizing
US
pausing
resisting
deferring
lessening
stunting
bottlenecking
intermitting
miring
obscuring
cutting short
neutralising
UK
discouraging
quieting
holding in
holding down
dragging your feet
circumventing
stemming the flow of
holding off
fending off
heading off
putting a stop to
tying down
taking down
putting back
backing off
bringing to screeching halt
working against
shutting out
throwing cold water on
pouring cold water on
putting a damper on
debilitating
bogging
straitjacketing
throttling
circumscribing
screening
complicating
sidetracking
entrammelling
entrammeling
petering out
standing off
withstanding
catching
capturing
enmeshing
ensnaring
netting
impairing
snagging
delimiting
outlawing
sidelining
tethering
monkeying with
tiing one's hands
muzzling
setting limits on
imposing limits on
enjoining
warding
letting up
putting straitjacket on
ruining
overturning
throwing monkey wrench in
protracting
tying someone's hands
preventing from making progress
remitting
proroguing
putting a crimp in
overloading
putting at a disadvantage
acting against
incommoding
hemming in
placing at a disadvantage
prolonging
discommoding
oppressing
bothering
charging
bringing an end to
taking out
giving disadvantage
putting out of commission
intercepting
keeping in
lousing up
boxing in
confounding
putting on brakes
snookering
reining
puzzling
strangulating
nonplussing
upsetting
picking off
mystifying
containing
swallowing
squelching
terminating
muffling
throwing a spoke in the wheel of
stumping
holding off on
flummoxing
taking out of play
putting the brakes on
making difficult
fighting back
staunching
governing
cornering
pigeonholing
holding over
making late
indisposing
diverting
bottling up
repulsing
checkmating
rebuffing
taming
choking back
putting paid to
keeping in check
pulling in
slackening pace
biting back
keeping under control
keeping a lid on
running counter to
dead-ending
giving the run around
putting on hold
hanging fire
dashing
putting on back burner
throwing a monkey wrench into
bringing to a standstill
turning off
playing for time
putting a spoke in someone's wheel
disappointing
putting the damper on
tempering
diminishing
lagging
abating
decreasing
embogging
loitering
qualifying
procrastinating
reefing
cutting down
anchoring it
losing speed
putting the brakes on
cutting back
keeping waiting
winding down
losing steam
hitting the brakes
letting down flaps
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Verb
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Present participle for to annoy, irritate or exasperate (someone)
aggravating
annoying
irritating
exasperating
irking
nettling
vexing
peeving
piquing
provoking
riling
ruffling
angering
bugging
antagonising
UK
antagonizing
US
bothering
galling
incensing
infuriating
nagging
narking
needling
frustrating
miffing
offending
rankling
chafing
getting
grating
spiting
bumming
dogging
griping
persecuting
pestering
rasping
eating
frosting
hacking
itching
teasing
wigging
ticking off
making angry
getting at
getting to
hacking off
rubbing up the wrong way
winding up
bumming out
burning up
driving up the wall
getting across
getting on one's nerves
getting on your nerves
picking on
putting out
getting someone
making someone see red
making your blood boil
ruffling one's feathers
trying your patience
getting under your skin
getting up someone's nose
getting your goat
making somebody's hackles rise
getting your back up
getting on your wick
Verb
▲
Present participle for to subject to cruel or unjust treatment
victimising
UK
victimizing
US
abusing
mistreating
persecuting
bullying
maltreating
terrorising
UK
terrorizing
US
tormenting
harassing
torturing
hassling
hounding
needling
beating
demonising
UK
demonizing
US
immolating
oppressing
using
ill-treating
pushing around
discriminating against
getting at
picking on
having it in for
leaning on
punishing unfairly
having your knife into
having a down on
stacking the deck
making things hot for someone
showing ill will towards
pushing about
intimidating
tyrannizing
US
browbeating
tyrannising
UK
subjugating
domineering
dominating
threatening
menacing
treating harshly
overwhelming
cowing
riding roughshod over
putting down
kicking around
walking all over
repressing
bulldozing
suppressing
harrying
overpowering
hectoring
plaguing
distressing
aggrieving
overbearing
brutalizing
US
brutalising
UK
trampling on
ill-using
messing over
suffering
punishing
excruciating
crucifying
bossing about
bossing around
scaring
manhandling
kicking about
treading on
frightening
misusing
mishandling
playing the heavy with
coercing
blackjacking
bogarting
badgering
heckling
antagonizing
US
taunting
chivying
bullyragging
strong-arming
antagonising
UK
mau-mauing
subduing
crushing
mastering
conquering
enslaving
ruling
steamrollering
subordinating
holding sway over
rendering helpless
bringing someone to their knees
tyrannizing over
rendering incapable
gaining ascendancy over
ruling over
trampling underfoot
gaining mastery over
weighing heavy upon
beating down
gaining control of
bringing to heel
rendering powerless
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to admonish or reproach angrily
chiding
scolding
berating
admonishing
castigating
rebuking
nagging
reprimanding
reproaching
slating
upbraiding
blasting
carpeting
condemning
censuring
chastising
criticising
UK
criticizing
US
rating
reproving
blaming
keelhauling
lambasting
lecturing
ragging
rapping
reprehending
wigging
bollocking
flaying
harassing
rowing
objurgating
checking
exprobating
flaming
lessoning
monishing
trimming
telling off
laying into
pulling up
remonstrating with
tearing into
dressing down
ticking off
bawling out
chewing out
pitching into
reaming out
giving someone a bollocking
lacing to
letting someone have it
slapping down
taking down
having a go at
reading the riot act
finding fault
giving someone a caning
hauling over the coals
taking down a peg
blowing up at
calling down
coming down on
getting on
giving someone a row
giving someone a wigging
giving someone some stick
going on at
speaking to
taking to task
taking to the woodshed
talking to
getting after
giving someone a mouthful
rapping over the knuckles
burning one's ears
calling to account
giving a rocket
giving a talking-to
giving someone a dressing-down
giving someone an earful
giving someone a roasting
giving someone a rollicking
giving someone a telling-off
giving someone hell
putting on the mat
tearing off a strip
calling on the carpet
giving someone a rating
giving someone what for
sending someone away with a flea in their ear
slapping someone's wrist
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make rude and mocking remarks, typically in a loud voice
jeering
mocking
taunting
ridiculing
deriding
gibing
scorning
teasing
scoffing
sneering
booing
insulting
scouting
flouting
jibing
heckling
bantering
hissing
skewering
hooting
knocking
contemning
catcalling
quipping
jesting
fleering
abusing
interrupting
barracking
digging
jabbing
hectoring
sniping
scoffing at
laughing at
sneering at
jibing at
putting down
shooting down
blowing raspberries
flouting at
shouting down
shouting disapproval
shouting at
calling names
putting on
booing at
catcalling at
poking fun
laughing out of court
making a crack
whistling at
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giving a hard time
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