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Present participle for to bully, harass or make fun of a victim
Present participle for combine against
Present participle for to subject to cruel or unjust treatment
Present participle for to complain or express discontent in a wearisome manner
Present participle for to bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way
Present participle for to disturb mentally or emotionally
Present participle for to select one from a group and treat differently
Present participle for to criticize or rebuke strongly
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Present participle for to bully, harass or make fun of a victim
harassing
persecuting
tormenting
bullying
victimising
UK
victimizing
US
badgering
bedeviling
US
bedevilling
UK
needling
harrying
teasing
baiting
goading
tyrannising
UK
tyrannizing
US
getting at
discriminating against
having it in for
grumbling at
singling out
having a down on
making fun of
pestering
hounding
giving a hard time
annoying
bothering
hassling
riding
dogging
plaguing
nagging
worrying
irritating
intimidating
taunting
provoking
aggravating
ribbing
mocking
terrorizing
US
ragging
terrorising
UK
abusing
ridiculing
vexing
razzing
bugging
torturing
oppressing
molesting
hectoring
heckling
browbeating
maltreating
ill-treating
troubling
disturbing
winding up
joshing
irking
chaffing
nudging
devilling
deviling
mistreating
taking the mickey
driving up the wall
roasting
bantering
galling
narking
kidding
getting
gibing
joking
guying
hazing
besetting
domineering
distressing
aggrieving
poking fun at
jibing at
picking at
taking the piss out of
putting down
pushing around
afflicting
exasperating
nettling
riling
peeving
piquing
ruffling
chafing
grating
chivvying
rasping
eating
spiting
frosting
griping
itching
besieging
agonizing
US
injuring
anguishing
deriding
pursuing
beleaguering
henpecking
jiving
importuning
rallying
chivying
burning up
wronging
putting out
hacking off
twitting
subjugating
threatening
funning
attacking
dominating
quizzing
cowing
scaring
chiacking
having on
poking borak at
pecking at
making sport of
flouting at
messing with
laughing at
poking mullock at
riding roughshod over
shucking
putting on
finding fault with
trampling on
bending someone's ear
smoking
carping at
agonising
UK
kicking around
getting on your nerves
slinging off at
working on
menacing
ragging on
scoffing at
ill-using
treating harshly
sending up
goofing on
jeering at
sledging
walking all over
leading on
racking
exploiting
harrowing
jeering
interrupting
cursing
hunting
excruciating
criticizing
US
scolding
hurting
satirizing
US
inconveniencing
perplexing
outraging
embarrassing
mithering
discommoding
prodding
angering
berating
overwhelming
overbearing
making it hot for someone
finding fault
making a monkey of
inflicting pain on
getting to
tantalising
UK
misusing
messing over
harping on at
breathing down someone's neck
pulling someone's leg
inflicting suffering on
pulling one's leg
keeping complaining to
getting on your wick
keeping after
criticising
UK
rubbing up the wrong way
frightening
pushing about
getting on one's nerves
moaning at
making things hot for someone
tantalizing
US
leaning on
intruding upon
satirising
UK
rotting
making jokes about
making somebody's hackles rise
upsetting
displeasing
giving someone hell
calling names
frazzling
paining
scoffing
making a monkey out of
gnawing at
grieving
punishing repeatedly and unfairly
disgusting
insulting
impeding
grating on
crossing
hindering
boring
giving someone grief
imposing on
joking with
treading on
kicking about
bossing about
bulldozing
bossing around
fretting
playing the heavy with
brutalising
UK
mishandling
manhandling
brutalizing
US
overpowering
targetting
targeting
driving crazy
reminding
driving round the bend
driving you up the wall
getting in your hair
insisting
dunning
haunting
getting in the hair of
getting on the nerves of
hacking you off
assailing
affecting
disrupting
giving the business
jumping on one's case
giving a bad time
entangling
weighing down
putting the squeeze on
falling upon
starting in on
hampering
giving the needle
falling on
aggressing
fooling around
barracking
booing
snapping
slamming
gnawing
spoofing
messing around
swipeing at
flirting with
sounding
miffing
bumming
getting your back up
ticking off
offending
antagonizing
US
rankling
bumming out
hacking
getting across
infuriating
incensing
making your blood boil
frustrating
ruffling one's feathers
getting under your skin
wigging
getting someone
making someone see red
getting your goat
trying your patience
getting up someone's nose
antagonising
UK
making angry
shouting down
spooking
uttering threats to
issuing threats to
terrifying
whipping around
scaring hell out of
putting heat on
urging
going on at
upbraiding
busting chops
moaning on at
busting someone's balls
taking it out on
keeping on at
egging
carping
hissing
disconcerting
discomfiting
rattling
dissing
fazing
cheating
bleeding
niggling
chiding
shouting at
shouting catcalls at
butting in
making game of
martyring
fleecing
kidding around
caviling
US
cavilling
UK
fussing
swindling
punishing
crushing
ruling with a rod of iron
putting screws to
handicapping
straining
coercing
beating down
keeping down
encumbering
ruling
weighing heavy upon
saddling
holding sway over
hegemonizing
trampling underfoot
despotizing
holding down
mastering
grinding down
subjecting
enslaving
ruling with an iron hand
chastening
controlling
tyrannizing over
overthrowing
pressing
forcing
ruling over
trampling
scourging
taxing
putting upon
wounding
preying on
blackmailing
conning
hoodwinking
taking advantage of
tricking
causing pain to
laying a finger on
lashing out at
doing violence to
traumatising
UK
bloodying
incommoding
crossing up
causing injury to
disserving
treating roughly
traumatizing
US
harming
crucifying
beating
exiling
expelling
dragooning
sticking the knife into
getting the knife into
more ❯
“Perhaps his parents are so uptight about his learning to read that they constantly
pick on
him.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for combine against
ganging up on
combining against
mobbing
surrounding
targeting
targetting
uniting against
putting pressure on
joining forces against
overwhelming
Verb
▲
Present participle for to subject to cruel or unjust treatment
having a down on
disapproving of
showing antagonism to
abusing
bearing a grudge towards
bullying
discriminating against
feeling ill will towards
ill-treating
leaning on
mistreating
persecuting
pushing about
pushing around
showing ill will towards
getting at
harassing
hounding
maltreating
punishing unfairly
terrorising
UK
terrorizing
US
tormenting
torturing
hassling
having it in for
needling
giving a hard time
making things hot for someone
victimising
UK
stacking the deck
oppressing
demonizing
US
using
beating
immolating
victimizing
US
having your knife into
demonising
UK
Verb
▲
Present participle for to complain or express discontent in a wearisome manner
carping
complaining
nagging
beefing
cavilling
UK
caviling
US
quibbling
grousing
grumbling
moaning
whining
bleating
censuring
criticising
UK
criticizing
US
griping
grouching
niggling
bellyaching
kvetching
nitpicking
whingeing
condemning
decrying
denouncing
disparaging
fussing
knocking
caterwauling
chuntering
crabbing
croaking
grizzling
growling
grumping
hollering
inveighing
keening
kicking
maundering
murmuring
muttering
repining
reproaching
screaming
squawking
squealing
wailing
whimpering
yammering
yauping
yawping
yowling
creating
hypercriticizing
mithering
nit-picking
bothering
finding fault with
objecting
objurgating
panning
pecking
sounding off
splitting hairs
finding fault
picking holes
going on
kicking up a fuss
picking at
Verb
▲
Present participle for to bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way
browbeating
threatening
bullying
intimidating
coercing
dragooning
pressurising
UK
pressurizing
US
bulldozing
cowing
hectoring
badgering
bogarting
domineering
compelling
persecuting
pressuring
blackjacking
bullyragging
forcing
goading
harassing
harrying
hounding
mau-mauing
menacing
nagging
strong-arming
terrorising
UK
terrorizing
US
blustering
frightening
impelling
pushing
railroading
leaning on
riding roughshod over
bossing about
bossing around
lording it over
putting heat on
twisting one's arm
using strong-arm tactics on
putting the chill on
putting through the wringer
holding a gun to one's head
tyrannizing
US
aweing
awing
bludgeoning
tyrannising
UK
pushing around
oppressing
tormenting
subduing
plaguing
overawing
steamrollering
buffaloing
pushing about
scaring
daunting
unnerving
heckling
dismaying
taunting
chivying
antagonizing
US
mistreating
antagonising
UK
disconcerting
rattling
fazing
petrifying
discomfiting
constraining
obliging
disheartening
embarrassing
enforcing
riding
affrighting
psyching out
turning on the heat
twisting someone's arm
scaring off
scaring the bejesus out of
putting the screws on
pressing
making
prevailing on
driving
obligating
putting pressure on
dominating
putting the heat on
impressing
muscling
sandbagging
press-ganging
using pressure on
putting the squeeze on
having someone do something
subjugating
hustling
chivvying
overbearing
requiring
causing
commanding
bringing pressure to bear on
ordering
demanding
blackmailing
tightening the screws on
hassling
terrifying
spooking
pestering
brainwashing
prodding
persuading
influencing
despotizing
bringing force to bear on
cajoling
assailing
importuning
wheedling
arguing
steamrolling
putting the screws to
talking
besetting
swaying
besieging
acting on
railroading into
working on
fast-talking
troubling
vexing
dragooning into
putting under an obligation
walking heavy
riding roughshod
steamrollering into
bulldozing into
exerting influence on
insisting on
coming at
necessitating
browbeating into
bearing down on
going to town on
ruling
bossing
prevailing
urging
overcoming
predominating
preponderating
reigning
charging
squeezing
swaggering
bending
henpecking
foisting
occasioning
imposing
lording
moving
using force on
concussing
conscripting
urging by force
burdening
contracting
binding
obtruding
insisting
choking
using duress on
enjoining
applying
ordering about
exerting force on
ordering around
dictating to
pinning down
bearing down
putting the bite on
giving orders to
putting screws to
bearing hard on
putting squeeze on
bringing pressure to bear upon
trampling on
walking all over
ruling the roost
calling the shots
kicking around
running the show
ruling with a rod of iron
being in the saddle
bending to your will
leading by the nose
keeping under thumb
ruling with an iron hand
throwing your weight around
running things
pushing the buttons
lording over
inducing
prevailing upon
effecting
turning the screws on
having
tightening the screw on
putting up to
turning the screw on
imposing on
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to disturb mentally or emotionally
upsetting
distressing
disturbing
bothering
dismaying
troubling
agitating
disquieting
perturbing
worrying
alarming
discomposing
disconcerting
unsettling
flustering
ruffling
unnerving
grieving
discountenancing
displeasing
hassling
angering
frightening
hurting
inconveniencing
offending
shaking
throwing
annoying
bugging
discomforting
fretting
harassing
irking
irritating
pestering
plaguing
tormenting
vexing
ailing
disappointing
peeving
rattling
afflicting
concerning
derailing
discombobulating
fazing
frazzling
fussing
indisposing
miffing
narking
spooking
unhinging
wounding
alaruming
bewildering
confounding
cramping
crazing
debilitating
distempering
distracting
flipping
flooring
flurrying
hagriding
incapacitating
pothering
saddening
sickening
turning
undoing
egging on
firing up
flipping out
freaking out
getting at
getting to
stirring up
ticking off
winding up
bumming out
getting across
getting someone
hacking off
keying up
laying up
making waves
turning on
weirding out
giving someone grief
making a scene
rocking the boat
throwing off balance
giving a hard time
hurting somebody's feelings
getting on your wick
paining
oppressing
racking
torturing
stressing
perplexing
trying
anguishing
agonizing
US
depressing
cursing
hounding
harrying
needling
nagging
straining
injuring
agonising
UK
tantalizing
US
breaking
harrowing
desolating
dogging
pushing
strapping
tantalising
UK
exercising
martyring
nit-picking
pricking
aggrieving
causing anguish to
causing suffering to
pushing buttons
making wretched
eating at
cutting up
burning up
weighing on
arousing anxiety in
doing a number on
making it tough for
making miserable
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to select one from a group and treat differently
singling out
distinguishing
identifying
differentiating
selecting
choosing
isolating
picking out
setting apart
plucking out
pulling out
filtering out
sorting out
sifting out
separating
sifting
winnowing out
weeding out
characterizing
US
pinpointing
characterising
UK
fingering
determining
recognizing
US
spotting
marking out
ID'ing
IDing
naming
individuating
demarcating
singularizing
individualizing
US
designating
recognising
UK
placing
individualising
UK
diagnosing
marking
locating
specifying
determinating
marking off
pinning down
ascertaining
knowing
deciding
making distinctive
making different
labelling
UK
labeling
US
tagging
figuring out
discovering
classifying
categorizing
US
signalizing
US
diagnosticating
making out
qualifying
parting
detecting
setting off
telling between
getting a fix on
telling from
finding
pointing out
putting one's finger on
signalising
UK
categorising
UK
segregating
indicating
stamping
making something stand out
delineating
highlighting
nominating
differentializing
making unique
delimiting
making
peaching
tapping
zeroing in on
tracking down
defining
nailing down
homing in on
running to earth
removing
dissociating
putting to one side
branding
analyzing
US
dividing
estimating
collating
judging
discriminating
extricating
typifying
symbolising
UK
personalising
UK
denoting
peculiarizing
symbolizing
US
making up
belonging to
personalizing
US
pronouncing
telling apart
showing to be
hallmarking
earmarking
typecasting
analysing
UK
establishing
describing
discerning
divining
verifying
validating
substantiating
deducing
fixing
intuiting
flagging
making certain of
putting the finger on
finding out
putting a name to
ferreting out
knowing by sight
working out
making certain
sussing out
deciding on
pegging
making up your mind on
settling on
tabbing
buttoning down
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to criticize or rebuke strongly
coming down on
admonishing
berating
chiding
reproaching
reproving
upbraiding
castigating
censuring
criticising
UK
criticizing
US
lambasting
rapping
scolding
attacking
blasting
chastising
rebuking
carpeting
chastening
objurgating
bollocking
keelhauling
visiting
rating
rowing
trimming
wigging
remonstrating with
laying into
pitching into
pulling up
slapping down
telling off
dressing down
hauling over the coals
lacing to
making an example of
meting out punishment to
ragging on
bawling out
blowing up
chewing out
criticizing strongly
giving a talking-to
giving someone a dressing-down
letting someone have it
reaming out
teaching a lesson
tearing down
giving a rocket
giving someone an earful
giving someone a roasting
giving someone a telling-off
giving someone hell
reading the riot act
taking to task
calling down
giving someone a bollocking
giving someone a caning
giving someone a mouthful
giving someone a rollicking
having a go at
rapping over the knuckles
giving someone a row
giving someone a wigging
tearing off a strip
ticking off
yelling at
giving someone a rating
giving someone what for
jumping on
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