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What is another word for making waves?

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

Present participle for cause trouble

Present participle for to cause trouble

Present participle for to make something more complex

Present participle for to disturb the composure of

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

Present participle for to dissent or rebel against

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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

heating up

making someone see red

turning off

working on

asking for it

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 on one's nerves

getting a rise out of

sticking in one's craw

trying the patience of

wearing on

setting one's teeth on edge

getting your dander up

rattling someone's cage

ruffling one's feathers

getting up someone's nose

making somebody's hackles rise

pricking

discommoding

inconveniencing

rubbing you up the wrong way

getting across someone

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

victimizing^US

victimising^UK

brutalizing^US

brutalising^UK

tyrannizing^US

tyrannising^UK

terrorizing^US

discriminating against

terrorising^UK

breathing down someone's neck

doing over

bending someone's ear

tantalizing^US

tantalising^UK

inflicting anguish on

messing up

making things hot for someone

driving you up the wall

showing antagonism to

disapproving of

feeling ill will towards

showing ill will towards

bearing a grudge towards

getting your hackles up

punishing repeatedly and unfairly

labouring^UK

laboring^US

upsetting the applecart

guying

making an enemy of somebody

getting on the wrong side of

bringing pressure to bear on

searching high heaven

demonizing^US

demonising^UK

having your knife into

playing the heavy with

riding roughshod over

jumping on one's case

putting the squeeze on

getting in the hair of

razzing

taking the mickey

getting on the nerves of

taking the piss out of

dishonoring^US

doing an injustice to

giving no quarter

stepping on the toes of

putting someone off their stroke

causing someone to lose their composure

criticizing^US

keeping complaining to

criticising^UK

busting someone's balls

taking it out on

moaning at

making it hot for someone

hunting

exiling

sticking the knife into

expelling

dragooning

getting the knife into

giving someone the works

inflicting pain on

working over

inflicting suffering on

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Present participle for cause trouble

causing trouble

criticising^UK

criticizing^US

causing a disturbance

“It finally took foreign visitors to make waves about the spiralling cost of living here.”

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Present participle for to cause trouble

Verb

Present participle for to make something more complex

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Present participle for to disturb the composure of

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

causing discomfort to

hurting somebody's feelings

bedevilling^UK

bedeviling^US

terrorizing^US

putting someone off their stroke

terrorising^UK

setting someone back on their heels

putting out of countenance

putting someone off their stride

catching off balance

making someone scratch their head

causing to be at a stand

destabilizing^US

causing someone to lose their composure

scaring the bejesus out of

weighing heavily on

making one's hair stand on end

paralysing^UK

paralyzing^US

throwing into a tizzy

affronting

tantalising^UK

tantalizing^US

balking^US

baulking^UK

making self-conscious

stopping someone in their tracks

eating away at

electrifying

pulling the rug from under

abasing

pulling the rug out from under

scaring the pants off

scaring someone out of their wits

scaring the living daylights out of

throwing into a blue funk

making one's blood run cold

springing on

making someone jump out of their skin

making someone fed up

taking the wind out of your sails

mixing up

pouring cold water on

throwing cold water on

getting on one's nerves

stimulating

pressing

scaring the daylights out of

fermenting

nagging at

mistreating

rubbing the wrong way

knocking the wind out of

throwing into a panic

frightening the living daylights out of

harshing one's mellow

giving someone a jolt

giving someone a fright

galvanizing^US

upsetting the applecart

galvanising^UK

trying the patience of

making discontented

getting on your nerves

sending over the edge

causing someone distress

hitting like ton of bricks

raising someone's eyebrows

completely surprising

grossing out

shaking out of your complacency

breaking the heart of

raveling^US

ravelling^UK

giving someone goose pimples

harshing someone's mellow

making gloomy

giving someone the blues

making desolate

making despondent

bringing tears to your eyes

knocking the stuffing out of

bearing down

turning off

breaking someone's heart

dashing hopes

keeping under

giving someone the heebie-jeebies

chilling to the marrow

putting the fear of God into

freezing your blood

getting the wind up

screwing up

throwing into a fright

filling with consternation

messing up

making one's flesh creep

giving one the creeps

scaring someone half to death

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

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Present participle for to dissent or rebel against

taking part in an uprising

defying authority

taking up arms

taking up arms against

taking to the streets

disobeying authority

opposing authority

refusing to obey orders

mounting the barricades

taking part in an insurrection

rallying

taking a stand

revoluting

defying the authorities

mobilizing^US

mobilising^UK

manning the barricades

rising up against

fighting in the streets

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