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Verb

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

Present participle for to make or become hot or warm

Present participle for to fuse or melt two things into one, especially in order to extract metal from ore

Present participle for to become or make more intense

Present participle for to make or become warm

Present participle for to increase or improve in amount or value

("heat up", figuratively) Present participle for to become increasingly angry

Present participle for to rouse or goad into action or feeling something

A small rise in temperature

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

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

rubbing up the wrong way

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

making someone see red

getting on your nerves

giving someone the pip

putting your back up

hitting where one lives

putting someone's nose out of joint

rubbing the wrong way

getting your dander up

putting out

rattling someone's cage

getting your goat

ruffling one's feathers

getting up someone's nose

making somebody's hackles rise

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

victimizing^US

victimising^UK

getting on one's nerves

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

tyrannizing^US

bending someone's ear

tyrannising^UK

discriminating against

tantalizing^US

making things hot for someone

eating at

weighing heavily on

giving a bad time

tantalising^UK

breathing down someone's neck

driving you up the wall

taking the piss out of

satirizing^US

criticizing^US

making it hot for someone

putting someone off their stroke

criticising^UK

causing someone to lose their composure

getting across someone

causing discomfort to

satirising^UK

making someone fed up

hurting somebody's feelings

putting the squeeze on

keeping complaining to

dominating

rubbing you up the wrong way

showing antagonism to

feeling ill will towards

showing ill will towards

pushing about

bearing a grudge towards

running up the wrong way

getting your hackles up

giving someone hell

pushing someon's buttons

possessing

messing

niggling at

getting on the nerves of

getting in the hair of

arousing hostility in

jeering

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

breaking the heart of

bringing pressure to bear on

getting a rise out of

belabouring^UK

trying the patience of

causing resentment to

searching high heaven

upsetting the applecart

grudging

hissing

sticking in one's craw

setting one's teeth on edge

sticking the knife into

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

jumping on one's case

belaboring^US

dishonoring^US

demonizing^US

busting someone's balls

having your knife into

demonising^UK

doing an injustice to

stepping on the toes of

causing to feel mental strain

causing to feel emotional strain

ruling with an iron hand

bringing someone to their knees

ruling with a rod of iron

bringing under the yoke

riding roughshod over

taking the heart out of

pulling someone's leg

swipeing at

flirting with

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Present participle for to make or become hot or warm

“She moved into the kitchen, meaning to heat up a frozen dinner, but found twinkie wrappers littering the counter.”

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Present participle for to fuse or melt two things into one, especially in order to extract metal from ore

Verb

Present participle for to become or make more intense

adding fuel to the flames

fueling^US

rubbing salt in the wound

adding insult to injury

adding fuel to the fire

making matters worse

rubbing salt in a wound

feeding the fire

compounding the problem

rubbing salt in the wounds

going from bad to worse

fanning the flames of

emphasizing^US

emphasising^UK

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Present participle for to make or become warm

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Present participle for to increase or improve in amount or value

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("heat up", figuratively) Present participle for to become increasingly angry

Verb

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Present participle for to rouse or goad into action or feeling something

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A small rise in temperature

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