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Adjective

Causing annoyance or frustration

Noun

A feeling of great displeasure or anger

Verb

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

Present participle for to feel or express great anger

Present participle for to become septic (and typically ooze pus)

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Adjective

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Causing annoyance or frustration

enough to try the patience of a saint

enough to drive you up the wall

bedevilling^UK

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

bedeviling^US

unsavory^US

unsavoury^UK

gruelling^UK

grueling^US

unfavorable^US

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“They had the sense not to break up their budding partnership over the rankling issue of who had come up with album title.”

Noun

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A feeling of great displeasure or anger

furore^UK

furor^US

offence^UK

offense^US

rancor^US

rancour^UK

being rubbed up the wrong way

chip on your shoulder

hemorrhage^US

haemorrhage^UK

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Verb

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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

getting on your nerves

giving someone the pip

putting your back up

hitting where one lives

rubbing the wrong way

getting your goat

itching

getting on one's nerves

making somebody's hackles rise

sending into a rage

ruffling one's feathers

tormenting

grating on

getting your dander up

trying your patience

getting up someone's nose

driving you up the wall

getting your hackles up

putting someone's nose out of joint

driving bananas

rubbing you up the wrong way

getting across someone

getting a rise out of

making you see red

rattling someone's cage

sticking in one's craw

trying the patience of

gnawing at

whipping up

setting one's teeth on edge

breathing down someone's neck

pushing someon's buttons

discommoding

getting on the wrong side of

making an enemy of somebody

cavilling^UK

caviling^US

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

criticising^UK

giving the cold shoulder

criticizing^US

causing resentment to

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

hurting somebody's feelings

putting someone off their stroke

setting someone back on their heels

tantalizing^US

putting someone off their stride

making someone scratch their head

weighing on

putting out of countenance

tantalising^UK

causing to be at a stand

making unhappy

putting in a spot

keeping on at

stopping someone in their tracks

causing someone to lose their composure

bending someone's ear

getting someone's wick

galvanizing^US

taking the wind out of your sails

causing discomfort to

knocking the stuffing out of

galvanising^UK

making self-conscious

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

setting someone's teeth on edge

treading on someone's toes

laboring^US

labouring^UK

sending over the edge

bringing pressure to bear on

leaning on

putting pressure on

pressurising^UK

pushing the buttons of

making your gorge rise

hurting the feelings of

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

messing with one's head

making punchy

setting someone thinking

causing inconvenience to

creating difficulties for

paralysing^UK

inflicting anguish on

throwing into a tizzy

hitting like ton of bricks

raising someone's eyebrows

completely surprising

shaking out of your complacency

paralyzing^US

balking^US

giving someone bother

causing someone difficulty

making someone go out of his way

baulking^UK

upsetting the applecart

sweeping someone off their feet

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

tugging at your heartstrings

satirizing^US

satirising^UK

pulling someone's leg

putting on

slinging off at

taking the piss out of

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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“You could see that it started to rankle him a little bit.”

Verb

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Present participle for to feel or express great anger

flying off the handle

frothing at the mouth

smouldering^UK

smoldering^US

going off the deep end

getting hot under the collar

working oneself into sweat

getting steamed up about

going through the roof

having a conniption fit

bursting a blood vessel

getting all steamed up

clamouring^UK

clamoring^US

getting your dander up

becoming upset

getting your hackles up

taking umbrage

rearing up

becoming indignant

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“The unfair treatment by the supervisor began to rankle the employees, leading to widespread unrest.”

Verb

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Present participle for to become septic (and typically ooze pus)

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