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What is another word for
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Verb
To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts
To be triggering a passionate feeling or reaction
Present participle for to make a ruffle or curl in
Present participle for to disorder or disarrange the order or neatness of
Present participle for to physically agitate or stir up
Present participle for to intimidate or cause fear in
Present participle for to make something fluffy, typically by patting or ruffling
Present participle for to move or cause to move in a rhythmic, flapping motion
Present participle for to become excitedly upset or angry
Present participle for to make a loud, deep, resonant sound
Noun
The interruption of a settled and peaceful condition
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To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts
annoying
harassing
aggravating
antagonizing
US
bugging
exasperating
galling
getting
goading
irking
irritating
narking
nettling
peeving
pestering
riling
vexing
frustrating
nagging
upsetting
angering
bothering
displeasing
disturbing
hassling
incensing
infuriating
maddening
making angry
needling
provoking
teasing
agitating
getting to
incommoding
making cross
molesting
perturbing
troubling
worrying
badgering
bedeviling
US
bedevilling
UK
breaking
chafing
distressing
enraging
frosting
gnawing
grating
harrying
henpecking
nudging
persecuting
piquing
plaguing
riding
rubbing up the wrong way
spiting
beleaguering
burning up
driving crazy
driving to distraction
graveling
gravelling
rankling
antagonising
UK
bumming out
driving mad
eating
getting at
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
teeing off
ticking off
winding up
cheesing off
driving round the bend
driving round the twist
driving up the wall
egging on
firing up
getting in your hair
getting on your wick
getting someone's dander up
getting your back up
hacking you off
heating up
making someone see red
making waves
turning off
working on
asking for it
getting on your nerves
giving someone the pip
putting your back up
hitting where one lives
miffing
putting out
rattling
discomposing
disconcerting
rasping
flustering
unsettling
griping
unnerving
disquieting
offending
itching
getting across
fazing
discomfiting
distracting
flurrying
perplexing
confounding
fretting
confusing
dismaying
alarming
inflaming
discomforting
discombobulating
unhinging
bewildering
concerning
fussing
affronting
distempering
exacerbating
frazzling
humping
throwing
rubbing the wrong way
derailing
ailing
outraging
roiling
undoing
getting on one's nerves
discountenancing
hagriding
nonplussing
shaking
exercising
weirding out
freaking out
throwing off balance
getting your goat
alaruming
tormenting
disgruntling
embarrassing
making uneasy
giving a hard time
flummoxing
mortifying
frightening
abashing
afflicting
taking aback
baffling
stirring up
rankling with
shaking up
putting off
spooking
making anxious
putting someone off their stroke
ruffling one's feathers
psyching out
putting someone's nose out of joint
trying your patience
getting up someone's nose
making somebody's hackles rise
scaring
hurting
insulting
paining
baiting
exciting
niggling
chagrining
getting someone
burning
grating on
getting your dander up
puzzling
wounding
rattling someone's cage
hounding
addling
muddling
aggrieving
disgusting
throwing off
shocking
abrading
raising your hackles
working up
causing offense
eating away at
picking on
mystifying
grieving
taunting
startling
intimidating
fuddling
pricking
disorienting
flooring
depressing
panicking
iring
trying
dogging
discommoding
crazing
stinging
putting into a flap
getting your hackles up
mixing up
putting someone off their stride
driving bananas
rubbing you up the wrong way
making nervous
wearing on
setting someone back on their heels
eating at
throwing into a tizz
daunting
bamboozling
befuddling
cowing
inconveniencing
surprising
disarranging
buffaloing
besetting
bullying
jolting
getting across someone
enflaming
madding
browbeating
affecting
unbalancing
injuring
mithering
rousing
pothering
crossing
dissatisfying
sickening
hurting somebody's feelings
rattling one's cage
catching off balance
trying the patience of
causing to be at a stand
setting one's teeth on edge
jarring on
steaming up
making someone scratch their head
driving you up the wall
causing someone to lose their composure
putting out of countenance
driving nuts
destabilizing
US
getting someone's wick
terrifying
disordering
deranging
bemusing
jarring
dumbfounding
stupefying
stunning
foxing
beating
mazing
saddening
torturing
befogging
devilling
deviling
agonizing
US
hurrying
oppressing
making uncomfortable
disrupting
inciting
stumping
demoralizing
US
dissing
posing
muddying
bustling
disorientating
empurpling
boring
bumming
grilling
disheartening
hindering
appalling
flipping
indisposing
arousing
tantalizing
US
embittering
hacking
disobliging
biting
putting on edge
blowing your mind
pulling the rug from under
tantalising
UK
destabilising
UK
breathing down someone's neck
wearing
jangling
going to your head
sticking in one's craw
acerbating
agonising
UK
sending into a rage
making fretful
getting a rise out of
upsetting the applecart
turning on
demoralising
UK
pushing buttons
making a scene
pulling the rug out from under
raising hell
making someone's hackles rise
getting on someone's nerves
getting someone's hackles up
ruffling someone's feathers
getting under someone's skin
getting in someone's hair
trying someone's patience
getting on someone's tits
getting someone's back up
haunting
despairing
causing disquiet to
overwhelming
overawing
awing
aweing
deterring
hazing
heckling
wigging
getting on someone
bristling
chiding
souring
unquieting
tangling
wearing out
fluttering
browning off
making restless
steaming
riling up
hustling
prodding
hectoring
testing
quickening
messing with
messing
pushing someon's buttons
pushing one's buttons
disappointing
running up the wrong way
hitting a sour note
getting on
setting on edge
boiling
making sore
blowing up
losing one's temper
discouraging
subduing
preoccupying
causing to panic
causing anxiety
taking a rise out of
starting
setting on
setting off
working into lather
dragooning
jarring upon
grating upon
wearing upon
slighting
obsessing
making it hot for someone
making things hot for someone
singling out
taking the wind out of your sails
making self-conscious
worsting
terrorizing
US
making an enemy of somebody
getting on the wrong side of
eating up
hanging up
getting even
harming
keying up
turning
incapacitating
flipping out
rocking the boat
laying up
cramping
debilitating
tiring
astonishing
dizzying
catching unawares
gnawing at
dejecting
racking
stressing
dementing
wildering
anguishing
cursing
uncalming
disrespecting
bowling over
putting the wind up
fogging
flabbergasting
dazing
disorganizing
terrorising
UK
blinding
snubbing
straining
giving a bad time
fidgetting
fidgeting
obfuscating
snowing
tiffing
huffing
stewing
petting
slurring
cutting to the quick
zinging
giving offence
putting down
horrifying
humiliating
treading on someone's toes
giving offence to
disarraying
making someone fed up
wearying
nauseating
making discontented
becoming bored
grating at
having had enough
losing patience
harrowing
pushing
strapping
making miserable
desolating
causing suffering to
martyring
doing a number on
weighing on
arousing anxiety in
causing anguish to
making wretched
making it tough for
nit-picking
cutting up
making your head spin
stymieing
bringing up short
balling up
messing with one's head
making punchy
intoxicating
staggering
setting someone thinking
inebriating
sending into a spin
chivvying
balking
US
baulking
UK
stopping someone in their tracks
taking by surprise
fouling up
knocking off balance
chivying
pursuing
interrupting
impeding
bending someone's ear
carping at
intruding upon
imposing on
stirring
throwing into tizzy
moving
stimulating
fermenting
causing anxiety to
bugging up
making flip
burdening
besieging
weighing down
excruciating
taxing
lying heavy on
ragging
dispiriting
ridiculing
ribbing
chaffing
weighing heavily on
blighting
traumatizing
US
fearing
sweating
importuning
mocking
casting down
keeping on at
going on at
traumatising
UK
keeping after
assailing
crushing
smiting
crucifying
nagging at
dumping on
preying on your mind
gibing
razzing
devastating
dunning
hanging over
putting to trouble
causing trouble to
rallying
joshing
brooding
scandalizing
US
dampening
guying
bantering
roasting
chilling
chillin
slapping
repelling
confronting
wringing
dashing
attacking
pressing
feeling uneasy
beating down
harping on at
getting down
making unhappy
scandalising
UK
causing discomfort to
poking fun at
making sport of
losing sleep
knocking for six
taking the piss out of
making fun of
deriding
jeering
joking
jiving
sapping
twitting
disaffecting
facing
funning
scolding
kidding
quizzing
berating
revolting
unmanning
repulsing
stretching
draining
victimizing
US
reviling
mistreating
imposing
reproaching
domineering
criticizing
US
pressurizing
US
shucking
sledging
upbraiding
gripping
slamming
suffering
carping
bringing down
preying on
pressing down on
spoofing
umbraging
concerning oneself
shattering
taking
festering
caviling
US
abasing
cavilling
UK
dampening spirits
breaking one's heart
fuming
punishing
possessing
visiting
having on
giving the business
pecking at
tearing
making it tough
leading on
torturing yourself
getting in a sweat
bleeding
pulling one's leg
taking the mickey
deeply upsetting
criticising
UK
getting in a fluster
inflicting anguish on
putting in a spot
ragging on
tormenting yourself
inflicting trauma
fooling around
jeering at
getting in a tizz
getting worked up
getting in a tizzy
getting in a panic
getting overwrought
getting in a flap
losing sleep over
jibing at
stressing out
getting in a lather
giving trouble
causing concern to
picking at
putting on the spot
causing agony to
making despondent
niggling at
putting a damper on
victimising
UK
scoffing at
getting in a state
swipeing at
pressurising
UK
getting steamed up
buffeting
dulling
buffetting
damaging
exhausting
occupying
bedogging
cutting
driving insane
kidding around
getting on the nerves of
getting in the hair of
irritating greatly
interfering
meddling
insisting on
scorning
searing
disillusioning
consternating
disparaging
chevying
relucting
occupying thoughts
belabouring
UK
hurting deeply
causing pain to
putting
weighing
taking over
torquing off
taking control of
lying heavily on
kicking up a stink
kicking up a fuss
wronging
giving someone hell
grizzling
gnawing away
scarring
gnawing away at
subjugating
lowering
suppressing
dwelling on
biting one's nails
getting stressed
having qualms
bringing pressure to bear on
tiring out
leaning on
putting pressure on
making severe demands on
making demands on
putting a strain on
curdling
reminding
insisting
slandering
dispraising
abusing
giving the cold shoulder
giving a zinger
throwing a curve
knocking props out
unstringing
sneering
scratching around
yapping at
searching high heaven
noodging
bullyragging
hurting the feelings of
tearing to pieces
knocking the wind out of
making your gorge rise
harshing one's mellow
sweating out
doing in
rousting
sticking it to
giving it to
dishing it out
dishing out
overcharging
jerking around
disenchanting
jesting
accosting
discontenting
overriding
tyrannizing
US
devitalizing
offending morals of
abominating
filling with loathing
grinding
pushing the buttons of
thumbing nose at
causing suffering
causing anguish
causing sorrow
lambasting
mourning
flouting
envenoming
disdaining
causing annoyance to
causing resentment to
mispleasing
playing dirty
playing cat and mouse
putting through wringer
rubbing salt in wound
alienating
making livid
driving you out of your mind
making you see red
driving you round the twist
driving you crazy
driving you to distraction
making somebody's blood boil
driving you round the bend
quipping
enslaving
tyrannizing over
dominating
tyrannising
UK
scouting
finding fault
defeating
humbling
overcoming
estranging
wisecracking
causing inconvenience to
imposing upon
creating difficulties for
japing
booing
entangling
hampering
making blue
putting into a funk
chastening
breaking the heart of
dragging down
moping
aggressing
gagging
jumping on one's case
giving the needle
falling on
putting the squeeze on
falling upon
starting in on
hissing
inflicting
poisoning
horning in on
intruding on
butting in on
interfering with
barging in on
jollying
belaboring
US
bombarding
empoisoning
bearing down on
casting a pall over
damping down
yucking
yukking
sorrowing
upsetting oneself
sighing
pining
louting
jabbing
digging
twittering
pretending
gibing at
sneering at
befalling
wreaking
wrecking
feeling unhappy
prostrating
repressing
drooping
casting a gloom upon
dragging
damping
running down
making gloomy
enervating
darkening
making sad
knocking sideways
pouring cold water on
throwing cold water on
bringing tears to your eyes
knocking the stuffing out of
breaking someone's heart
harshing someone's mellow
giving someone the blues
reducing to tears
making desolate
bearing down
dashing hopes
keeping under
dampening the spirits of
causing to lose heart
making downhearted
playing
distressing oneself
shouting at
carrying a heavy load
barracking
shouting down
getting into a dither
sweating it out
shouting catcalls at
making game of
fooling about
making resentful
making rancorous
jaundicing
making bitter
disadvantaging
tensing
overtaxing
pressuring
overstretching
discommodating
avenging
descending on
descending upon
bringing down on
forcing upon
making ill
giving someone bother
causing someone difficulty
making someone go out of his way
satirizing
US
having an adverse effect on
striking down
going against the grain
making unwell
causing illness to
causing problems
disagreeing
putting on trial
crunching
tensing up
overdoing
pushing to the limit
overextending
making tense
causing to feel mental strain
causing to feel emotional strain
putting in traction
chiacking
smoking
rotting
striking
dithering
snapping
sounding
making a monkey of
flouting at
poking mullock at
messing around
goofing on
satirising
UK
poking borak at
laughing at
pulling someone's leg
putting on
slinging off at
sending up
flirting with
making jokes about
enduring
abiding
exerting
stomaching
dreading
standing
going
tolerating
brooking
staying the course
sticking it out
getting in a tiz-woz
going through the mill
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Verb
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To be triggering a passionate feeling or reaction
exciting
provoking
inciting
riling
stirring up
fomenting
impassioning
inflaming
rallying
roiling
rousing
stirring
triggering
aggravating
agitating
animating
electrifying
firing up
goading
inspiring
instigating
arousing
enthusing
galvanizing
US
incensing
irking
priming
stimulating
whipping up
baiting
charging
egging on
eliciting
encouraging
enlivening
grilling
kindling
piquing
pumping up
revving up
setting off
vexing
vivifying
winding up
working up
activating
angering
awakening
bringing about
bringing out
causing
charging up
commoving
energising
UK
energizing
US
enkindling
galvanising
UK
jolting
motivating
needling
pepping up
sparking off
touching off
triggering off
working into lather
chafing
discomposing
flustering
inducing
infuriating
intensifying
maddening
offending
shaking
shaking up
starting
taunting
upsetting
waking up
feeding the fire
driving
invigorating
spurring
juicing up
getting to
spooking
livening up
jazzing up
working
moving
inspiriting
envigorating
activizing
titillating
prompting
generating
pushing
urging
producing
sparking
impelling
engendering
occasioning
prodding
giving rise to
precipitating
promoting
initiating
creating
influencing
leading to
fostering
spurring on
pressing
resulting in
effecting
bringing
bringing on
making
begetting
effectuating
actuating
breeding
evoking
propelling
persuading
swaying
compelling
setting in motion
affecting
raising
catalyzing
US
putting in motion
firing
pricking
quickening
contributing to
catalysing
UK
abetting
translating into
yielding
whetting
nudging
calling forth
leading
incentivizing
spawning
invoking
emboldening
bringing to pass
exhorting
introducing
exhilarating
putting up to
inclining
wakening
fermenting
heartening
instilling
coercing
developing
vitalizing
steeling
pressuring
beginning
brewing
establishing
advancing
stinging
hatching
buoying
buoying up
forcing
picking
making possible
siccing
boosting
lighting a fire under
uplifting
filliping
dragooning
instituting
impressing
cultivating
making for
pressurizing
US
getting
furthering
originating
fanning
tempting
making happen
strengthening
bringing forth
drawing forth
pressurising
UK
cheering
hounding
badgering
culminating in
helping
launching
ending in
refreshing
fuelling
fueling
US
obliging
necessitating
inviting
cheering on
building up
igniting
touching
increasing
predisposing
bestirring
giving
whipping
waking
psyching up
sowing the seeds of
cheering up
bucking up
talking into
drawing
prevailing on
keying up
prevailing upon
bringing into being
firing the imagination of
setting on
getting going
setting going
beseeching
fortifying
involving
determining
revitalizing
US
empowering
contributing
disposing
asking
convincing
reviving
soliciting
coaxing
revivifying
gladdening
giving incentive
thrilling
amounting to
enticing
boosting up
harassing
summoning up
meaning
entailing
chirking up
bearing up
bullying
winning over
constraining
mobilizing
US
finishing in
having a part in
spiriting up
geeing up
exalting
procuring
elating
conducing to
setting afoot
drumming up
firing with enthusiasm
revitalising
UK
bearing
kick-starting
adding up to
mobilising
UK
conducing
calling into being
turning on
drawing on
fanning the flames of
enjoining
entreating
imploring
building
rendering
incentifying
requesting
reassuring
opening
brightening
forwarding
nurturing
jumpstarting
enheartening
egging
enacting
bolstering
inaugurating
pushing forward
restoring
assuring
conditioning
adding to
bracing
biasing
US
biassing
UK
playing a part in
spiking
challenging
doing
directing
converting
awaking
achieving
having a hand in
playing a role in
inveigling
hassling
summoning
rationalizing
US
realising
UK
realizing
US
mustering
giving shot in arm
prevailing
acting upon
spelling
striking
getting things rolling
cooking up
starting the ball rolling
innervating
countenancing
setting
redounding to
terminating in
livening
informing
innerving
being responsible for
gingering up
bringing off
jump-starting
amping up
firing the enthusiasm of
rooting on
starting off
causing to happen
acting as a stimulus to
giving incentive to
setting up
contriving
actualizing
drawing out
rowelling
predetermining
bringing around
rationalising
UK
zipping up
roweling
driving on
setting astir
beckoning
leaning on
sounding
causing to occur
having
cajoling
hooking
securing
commencing
exercising
exacerbating
expediting
grabbing
resulting
setting in
intriguing
resuscitating
founding
getting someone going
suscitating
advising
impacting
cranking up
running
bringing up
having as a consequence
presenting
motiving
constituting
having as a result
lashing
rousting
reigniting
rekindling
applauding
implanting
lodging
planting
gaining
satisfying
imbuing
infusing
recalling
reactivating
reanimating
orienting
imposing on
suggesting to
hinting to
acting as an incentive to
digging
enforcing
disinhibiting
posing
reinvigorating
adding fuel to the flames
adding fuel
comforting
giving one an idea
carrying
giving impetus
enduing
infecting
beghasting
accomplishing
being a factor in
educing
vivificating
dispatching
springing
growing
favouring
UK
favoring
US
acting as a incentive to
giving the incentive to
attaining
opening the door for
organising
UK
engineering
organizing
US
getting up
mustering up
giving a boost to
reenforcing
riding herd on
irritating
switching on
calling to mind
bringing back
making waves
stirring embers
adding fuel to fire
stoking up
setting on foot
calling up
putting in place
conjuring up
causing to appear
being partly responsible for
having the effect of
carrying off
carrying through
oiling the wheels of
pulling off
starting up
resurrecting
heightening
intoxicating
disturbing
agitating for
agitating against
sowing
reminding
festering
calling down
chivvying
building a fire under
assisting
steering
putting a bomb under
consoling
praising
aiding
impressing on
making willing
bringing round
startling
calling
demanding
risking
begging
sending
causing to become
causing to be
bielding
propping up
raising your spirits
raising the morale of
giving a shot in the arm to
stimulating spiritually
giving confidence to
boosting morale
giving hope to
lifting the spirits of
stiffening the resolve of
pleading
bidding
whetting one's appetite
importuning
admonishing
adjuring
innovating
dictating
costing
nourishing
brainstorming
nursing
appealing
insisting
nagging
manoeuvring
UK
maneuvering
US
sanctioning
reinforcing
guiding
deciding
improving
commanding
proposing
wheedling
making alive
giving life to
giving new life to
breathing new life into
giving a buzz
lighting up
serving
pushing for
putting pressure on
insisting on
using pressure on
twisting someone's arm
calling on
appealing to
putting the heat on
putting the screws on
conjuring
commending
railroading into
trying to persuade
bulldozing into
succouring
UK
succoring
US
conceiving
coming out with
dreaming up
thinking up
enriching
approving
propagating
whomping up
endowing
giving birth to
giving a leg up
paving the way for
regulating
controlling
forming
channeling
US
channelling
UK
having an effect on
bringing to bear
training
arguing into
ruling
pulling strings
impacting on
getting at
carrying weight
seducing
lifting
elevating
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make a ruffle or curl in
wrinkling
creasing
crinkling
puckering
crumpling
rumpling
cockling
roughening
pursing
crushing
rippling
riffling
roughing
making ripples in
making rough
making uneven
folding
crimping
gathering
ruckling
furrowing
corrugating
scrunching
pleating
rucking
tucking
rucking up
scrunching up
crimpling
contracting
screwing up
rimpling
screwing
tightening
tousling
shirring
pinching
knitting
compressing
crisping
pouting
squeezing
shrivelling
UK
shriveling
US
pressing
drawing together
bunching
ruching
pressing together
wreathing
seaming
closing
dimpling
wrapping
constricting
swaddling
forming ripples on
forming something into ridges
tangling
disheveling
dishevelling
bedraggling
mussing
scrumpling
puckering up
curling up
messing up
twisting
curling
scalloping
lining
scrumpling up
coiling
winding
ridging
fluting
grooving
goffering
concertinaing
squeezing together
drawing
narrowing
pruning up
squinching
drawing in
covering with lines
shortening
plicating
knotting
dog-earing
doubling up
contorting
distorting
warping
deforming
marking with lines
plaiting
misshaping
torturing
hemming
enfolding
crunching
squashing
mashing
folding up
folding over
constringing
becoming narrower
becoming tighter
becoming narrow
becoming tight
becoming pinched
tightening up
more ❯
“A nurse came in and began to
ruffle
the sheets at the foot of the bed, indicating my visiting time was over.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to disorder or disarrange the order or neatness of
disordering
disheveling
dishevelling
disarranging
tousling
mussing
discomposing
deranging
tumbling
tangling
riffling
rifling
messing up
making untidy
mussing up
making a mess of
disorganizing
jumbling
disturbing
confusing
disarraying
muddling
disrupting
upsetting
rumpling
scrambling
shuffling
disjointing
dislocating
hashing
mixing up
unsettling
cluttering
messing
throwing into disorder
scattering
rummaging
displacing
spoiling
getting out of order
putting out of place
agitating
tossing
snarling up
turning upside down
making a shambles of
making disorderly
throwing into confusion
bringing into disorder
turning topsy-turvy
throwing into disarray
muddying
discombobulating
misarranging
mucking
muffing
mixing
fouling
psyching out
fumbling
raveling
US
entangling
bungling
perturbing
jumbling up
stirring up
snarling
lousing up
throwing off
fouling up
getting into a tangle
snafuing
complicating
blundering
botching
ravelling
UK
confounding
shaking
derailing
interfering
misplacing
wrecking
convulsing
putting out of order
embroiling
discreating
rearranging
changing
muddling up
reordering
breaking up
interfering with
playing havoc with
distempering
meddling
distorting
tampering
ruffling up
overturning
bringing into disarray
throwing into a state of disorganization
mistaking
strewing
intermixing
shifting
unbalancing
throwing into chaos
putting in disarray
reorganizing
US
mingling
transposing
reorganising
UK
turning
reversing
slopping
tilting
subverting
sloshing
dispersing
turning inside-out
shifting about
changing the order
breaking the deck
breaking down
rattling
throwing
stopping
bollixing
causing confusion in
causing turmoil in
intruding on
cutting short
screwing up
upsetting the applecart
messing with
throwing a spanner in the works
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
muddying the waters
rattling one's cage
mucking up
more ❯
“All was blissful and peaceful till Uzziah decided to
ruffle
the order of his kingdom.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to physically agitate or stir up
agitating
beating
whisking
stirring
swirling
convulsing
roiling
whirling
disturbing
whipping
churning
churning up
stirring up
washing
mixing
blending
muddling
tossing
moving about
mixing up
folding in
folding
whipping up
shaking up
aerating
working up
mixing vigorously
stirring vigorously
“Use your hands to lift, squeeze together, and
ruffle
the mixture through your fingers a few times to encourage some slightly larger clumps to form amongst the biscuity rubble.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to intimidate or cause fear in
scaring
terrifying
frightening
intimidating
daunting
terrorising
UK
terrorizing
US
unnerving
spooking
awing
aweing
affrighting
menacing
pressurising
UK
pressurizing
US
tyrannising
UK
tyrannizing
US
tormenting
plaguing
scaring the bejesus out of
scaring off
appalling
shaking
cowing
putting the wind up
browbeating
bullying
overawing
subduing
frightening off
alarming
horrifying
shocking
disturbing
startling
agitating
disconcerting
perturbing
panicking
dismaying
upsetting
disquieting
petrifying
flustering
worrying
rattling
alaruming
fazing
frighting
scarifying
deterring
discomforting
discouraging
unhinging
chillin
chilling
disheartening
repelling
unmanning
demoralizing
US
stiffing
demoralising
UK
striking terror into
scaring to death
filling with fear
scaring witless
scaring stiff
scaring the pants off
giving someone goose pimples
chilling to the bone
scaring away
chilling to the marrow
giving someone the heebie-jeebies
scaring someone out of their wits
scaring the living daylights out of
putting the fear of God into
freezing your blood
curdling the blood
getting the wind up
making one's blood run cold
throwing into a blue funk
making someone jump out of their skin
making one's hair stand on end
making one's flesh creep
making teeth chatter
giving one the creeps
throwing into a fright
scaring someone half to death
more ❯
“Yes, I'm leaving. No need to
ruffle
or scare me, filthy bird. I know your wings and their whiplash, your death's rattle.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make something fluffy, typically by patting or ruffling
fluffing up
patting
shaking
fluffing
plumping up
Verb
▲
Present participle for to move or cause to move in a rhythmic, flapping motion
fluttering
flapping
rippling
waving
flailing
flickering
quivering
undulating
vibrating
wagging
agitating
batting
beating
oscillating
shaking
waggling
wiggling
flopping
fluctuating
stirring
swinging
twitching
wobbling
shivering
thrashing
threshing
trembling
wavering
whipping
blowing
drifting
flying
quavering
swishing
waving rapidly
moving up and down
moving
flitting
swirling
swaying
palpitating
reeling
billowing
wafting
twirling
flittering
twisting
sweeping
pulsating
flicking
whirling
pulsing
flowing
wigwagging
streaming
seesawing
rocking
moving to and fro
swelling
vacillating
surging
floating
rustling
gliding
hovering
bustling
heaving
curling
shuddering
rising and falling
quaking
jiggling
juddering
ebbing and flowing
convulsing
joggling
catching the wind
jerking
bucketing
wabbling
jouncing
jolting
tottering
rolling
bumping
doddering
jarring
putting in motion
setting in motion
shimmying
jogging
flaunting
stirring up
churning
tremoring
dithering
staggering
twittering
commoving
succussing
lurching
bouncing
rattling
bobbling
writhing
faltering
tossing
bobbing
fidgeting
fidgetting
teetering
jostling
jigging
pitching
flourishing
brandishing
squirming
careening
wriggling
moving from side to side
jittering
squiggling
throbbing
pumping
fiddling
dangling
thrilling
bucking
weaving
nodding
quailing
wielding
waving to and fro
dancing
knocking
banging
disturbing
skipping
shimmering
jiggering
hopping
quaving
roiling
stumbling
tumbling
worming
zigzagging
switching
becoming unsteady
waddling
shaking like a leaf
jumping around
tingling
shaking up
moving back and forth
starting
twerking
gyrating
trilling
warbling
flailing about
pushing
raising
jumping
grinding
rousing
having the shakes
having the quivers
see-sawing
swiping
concussing
pendulating
moving around
moving about
listing
plunging
keeling
lashing
floundering
thrusting
labouring
UK
vellicating
moving slightly
fish-tailing
swaggering
moving backwards and forwards
pitchpoling
nutating
moving side to side
hanging
toddling
shoving
nudging
contorting
swerving
veering
waving around
toppling
working
stotting
going around
titubating
walking unsteadily
springing
shaking uncontrollably
dumping
chucking
ditching
yanking
hitching
trembling precariously
buffeting
buffetting
suffering a fit
going into spasms
laboring
US
shaking violently
tossing around
thrashing about
letting fly
seething
pounding
motioning
bubbling
foaming
thudding
thumping
simmering
swinging backwards and forwards
swinging from side to side
swinging back and forth
swinging to and fro
drumming
quopping
perscopating
reverberating
thrumming
hammering
frothing
moiling
boiling
pitpatting
resonating
horripilating
pit-a-patting
going pit-a-pat
having goose flesh or goose skin
having one's hair stand on end
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to become excitedly upset or angry
bristling
fuming
seething
raging
storming
boiling
spitting
bridling
flaring
objecting
recoiling
resenting
swelling
seeing red
going ballistic
blowing up
flaring up
getting angry
wigging out
becoming indignant
drawing oneself up
taking umbrage
rearing up
taking offense
taking offence
becoming annoyed
becoming infuriated
boiling over
becoming upset
getting your dander up
getting your hackles up
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make a loud, deep, resonant sound
rolling
rumbling
echoing
reverberating
booming
roaring
drumming
growling
grumbling
thundering
lumbering
pealing
resounding
sounding
bombinating
cannonading
humming
patterning
quavering
rattling
rustling
trilling
whirring
re-echoing
Noun
▲
The interruption of a settled and peaceful condition
disturbance
disruption
interruption
aggravation
agitation
botheration
confusion
harassment
hassle
interference
perturbation
stirring
trouble
vexation
bedevilment
bother
convulsion
derangement
distraction
harrying
hindrance
importunity
inconvenience
intrusion
roiling
whisking
annoyance
bothering
bugging
dislocation
irritation
molestation
pestering
problem
teasing
churning up
stirring up
provocation
diversion
obstruction
persecution
exasperation
needling
torment
badgering
nuisance
provoking
irking
vexing
pressure
pressurization
US
coercion
intimidation
pressurisation
UK
intervention
obtrusion
interjection
cutting in
barging in
muscling in
butting in
sticking one's oar in
horning in
hounding
bullying
annoying
disturbing
galling
discrimination
taunting
affront
offence
UK
plaguing
nettling
injury
grievance
insult
niggling
insults
indignity
offense
US
grief
brickbat
being rubbed up the wrong way
oppression
maltreatment
victimisation
UK
mistreatment
cyberbullying
victimization
US
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