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What is another word for
ruffling
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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 compress into small folds or ridges
Present participle for to hold hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look
Present participle for to move or cause to move in a rhythmic, flapping motion
Present participle for to make something fluffy, typically by patting or ruffling
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
flustering
rasping
unsettling
griping
unnerving
offending
disquieting
itching
getting across
fazing
discomfiting
flurrying
distracting
confounding
perplexing
fretting
confusing
dismaying
alarming
inflaming
discombobulating
discomforting
concerning
unhinging
bewildering
fussing
affronting
exacerbating
distempering
humping
frazzling
throwing
derailing
ailing
outraging
roiling
undoing
discountenancing
rubbing the wrong way
getting on one's nerves
hagriding
nonplussing
shaking
exercising
weirding out
freaking out
throwing off balance
getting your goat
disgruntling
alaruming
tormenting
embarrassing
making uneasy
giving a hard time
flummoxing
mortifying
frightening
rankling with
afflicting
abashing
taking aback
baffling
stirring up
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
baiting
hurting
insulting
paining
exciting
getting someone
aggrieving
niggling
chagrining
burning
grating on
getting your dander up
puzzling
intimidating
wounding
hounding
rattling someone's cage
addling
disgusting
muddling
throwing off
shocking
picking on
abrading
raising your hackles
working up
causing offense
startling
grieving
taunting
mystifying
pricking
disorienting
fuddling
flooring
panicking
depressing
iring
trying
discommoding
dogging
making nervous
stinging
injuring
crazing
putting into a flap
getting your hackles up
mixing up
putting someone off their stride
driving bananas
rubbing you up the wrong way
wearing on
setting someone back on their heels
eating away at
eating at
throwing into a tizz
daunting
bamboozling
befuddling
cowing
surprising
bullying
inconveniencing
disarranging
buffaloing
besetting
beating
jolting
getting across someone
enflaming
madding
browbeating
affecting
unbalancing
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
mazing
terrorizing
US
hurrying
saddening
torturing
devilling
deviling
bustling
befogging
appalling
agonizing
US
oppressing
making uncomfortable
disrupting
inciting
stumping
demoralizing
US
dissing
posing
muddying
disorientating
empurpling
boring
pursuing
grilling
disheartening
hindering
bumming
indisposing
arousing
tantalizing
US
embittering
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
flipping
sticking in one's craw
terrorising
UK
hacking
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
heating
despairing
browning off
causing disquiet to
overwhelming
overawing
awing
aweing
deterring
hazing
heckling
getting on someone
bristling
steaming
chiding
tangling
wearing out
souring
making restless
unquieting
riling up
wigging
prodding
messing with
messing
pushing someon's buttons
pushing one's buttons
running up the wrong way
boiling
making sore
blowing up
losing one's temper
testing
discouraging
subduing
preoccupying
sending into a spin
disappointing
taking a rise out of
starting
setting on
setting off
working into lather
fluttering
hitting a sour note
getting on
setting on edge
jarring upon
grating upon
wearing upon
slighting
hustling
taking the wind out of your sails
making self-conscious
worsting
quickening
making an enemy of somebody
getting on the wrong side of
causing to panic
causing anxiety
hanging up
getting even
harming
victimizing
US
tiring
keying up
astonishing
turning
incapacitating
flipping out
rocking the boat
dizzying
laying up
cramping
catching unawares
debilitating
racking
stressing
dejecting
wildering
gnawing at
anguishing
cursing
disrespecting
dementing
fogging
flabbergasting
dazing
disorganizing
blinding
snubbing
uncalming
straining
giving a bad time
fidgetting
fidgeting
bowling over
putting the wind up
making it hot for someone
hunting
wronging
hectoring
crucifying
victimising
UK
exiling
sticking the knife into
expelling
making things hot for someone
dragooning
singling out
getting the knife into
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
chivvying
knocking off balance
balking
US
chivying
baulking
UK
stopping someone in their tracks
taking by surprise
fouling up
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
ragging
lying heavy on
ribbing
ridiculing
chaffing
blighting
fearing
sweating
mocking
importuning
dispiriting
keeping on at
weighing heavily on
going on at
keeping after
assailing
traumatizing
US
smiting
obsessing
casting down
nagging at
traumatising
UK
preying on your mind
razzing
gibing
crushing
dunning
hanging over
dumping on
putting to trouble
causing trouble to
joshing
bantering
roasting
rallying
brooding
scandalizing
US
dampening
guying
devastating
slapping
repelling
confronting
wringing
attacking
pressing
feeling uneasy
harping on at
getting down
making unhappy
scandalising
UK
causing discomfort to
poking fun at
making sport of
losing sleep
taking the piss out of
making fun of
deriding
jeering
joking
jiving
sapping
twitting
facing
scolding
funning
kidding
domineering
quizzing
disaffecting
revolting
repulsing
stretching
leading on
fooling around
carping
draining
berating
mistreating
reviling
chilling
chillin
festering
criticizing
US
imposing
reproaching
pressurizing
US
shucking
sledging
dashing
upbraiding
gripping
slamming
caviling
US
cavilling
UK
suffering
bringing down
preying on
picking at
pressing down on
spoofing
concerning oneself
taking
shattering
abasing
dampening spirits
fuming
umbraging
punishing
visiting
having on
giving the business
pecking at
tearing
making it tough
torturing yourself
beating down
getting in a sweat
bleeding
pulling one's leg
taking the mickey
criticising
UK
getting in a fluster
driving insane
inflicting anguish on
putting in a spot
ragging on
tormenting yourself
jeering at
getting in a tizz
possessing
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
putting on the spot
causing agony to
niggling at
knocking for six
scoffing at
getting in a state
doing in
swipeing at
pressurising
UK
getting steamed up
buffeting
dulling
buffetting
unmanning
damaging
exhausting
occupying
bedogging
causing annoyance to
causing resentment to
cutting
interfering
meddling
finding fault
giving someone hell
kidding around
barracking
booing
getting on the nerves of
getting in the hair of
resenting
eating up
insisting on
deeply upsetting
inflicting trauma
searing
irritating greatly
consternating
shouting down
chevying
relucting
occupying thoughts
belabouring
UK
scorning
weighing
taking over
taking control of
lying heavily on
kicking up a stink
kicking up a fuss
grizzling
putting to some trouble
scarring
subjugating
lowering
suppressing
hissing
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
throwing a curve
knocking props out
unstringing
hurting deeply
causing pain to
scratching around
yapping at
searching high heaven
noodging
bullyragging
driving you crazy
making your gorge rise
sweating out
rousting
putting
gnawing away
gnawing away at
jerking around
disenchanting
jesting
envenoming
accosting
sneering
discontenting
making livid
driving you out of your mind
driving you off your head
making you see red
driving you round the twist
driving out of mind
driving you to distraction
making somebody's blood boil
driving you round the bend
sticking it to
giving it to
dishing it out
dishing out
overcharging
devitalizing
slandering
dispraising
offending morals of
abusing
abominating
giving the cold shoulder
filling with loathing
giving a zinger
grinding
disparaging
pushing the buttons of
thumbing nose at
causing suffering
causing anguish
causing sorrow
lambasting
mourning
mispleasing
playing dirty
shouting at
butting in
shouting catcalls at
making game of
alienating
poisoning
quipping
flouting
disdaining
playing cat and mouse
putting through wringer
rubbing salt in wound
defeating
humbling
overcoming
wisecracking
causing inconvenience to
imposing upon
creating difficulties for
disengaging
detaching
sending over the edge
separating
disconnecting
uncoupling
unhitching
unfastening
scouting
hurting the feelings of
japing
tearing to pieces
entangling
hampering
knocking the wind out of
harshing one's mellow
aggressing
gagging
jumping on one's case
giving the needle
falling on
putting the squeeze on
falling upon
starting in on
inflicting
horning in on
intruding on
butting in on
interfering with
barging in on
overriding
tyrannizing
US
jollying
breaking one's heart
belaboring
US
bombarding
bearing down on
casting a pall over
damping down
yucking
yukking
moping
making blue
putting into a funk
chastening
breaking the heart of
dragging down
putting a damper on
pretending
disillusioning
befalling
wreaking
wrecking
louting
jabbing
digging
enslaving
tyrannizing over
dominating
tyrannising
UK
twittering
sorrowing
upsetting oneself
sighing
pining
gibing at
sneering at
playing
fooling about
feeling unhappy
making resentful
jaundicing
empoisoning
making bitter
casting a gloom upon
dragging
damping
running down
making gloomy
enervating
darkening
making sad
distressing oneself
knocking sideways
pouring cold water on
throwing cold water on
bringing tears to your eyes
carrying a heavy load
knocking the stuffing out of
breaking someone's heart
harshing someone's mellow
giving someone the blues
reducing to tears
making desolate
making despondent
getting into a dither
sweating it out
bearing down
dashing hopes
keeping under
disadvantaging
tensing
overtaxing
pressuring
overstretching
worsening
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
making rancorous
acidulating
venoming
estranging
bittering
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
satirizing
US
striking
dithering
chiacking
enduring
abiding
exerting
stomaching
dreading
standing
going
tolerating
brooking
staying the course
sticking it out
smoking
rotting
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
getting in a tiz-woz
going through the mill
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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
producing
pushing
sparking
urging
impelling
engendering
occasioning
giving rise to
precipitating
prodding
initiating
creating
promoting
leading to
fostering
spurring on
influencing
resulting in
effecting
bringing
bringing on
pressing
making
begetting
effectuating
actuating
breeding
evoking
propelling
swaying
setting in motion
persuading
affecting
compelling
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
introducing
exhilarating
wakening
putting up to
inclining
fermenting
heartening
instilling
coercing
developing
vitalizing
steeling
pressuring
exhorting
beginning
establishing
brewing
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
making happen
strengthening
bringing forth
drawing forth
pressurising
UK
fuelling
fueling
US
enticing
cheering
hounding
culminating in
helping
launching
igniting
ending in
refreshing
obliging
necessitating
procuring
cheering on
building up
touching
increasing
predisposing
bestirring
giving
whipping
tempting
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
fortifying
involving
determining
badgering
revitalizing
US
empowering
contributing
disposing
inviting
convincing
reviving
revivifying
gladdening
thrilling
giving incentive
amounting to
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
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
beseeching
building
rendering
incentifying
reassuring
opening
brightening
forwarding
nurturing
jumpstarting
enheartening
egging
enacting
bolstering
inaugurating
pushing forward
restoring
assuring
conditioning
coaxing
adding to
bracing
biasing
US
biassing
UK
playing a part in
spiking
challenging
doing
directing
converting
awaking
asking
achieving
having a hand in
playing a role in
inveigling
hassling
soliciting
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
zipping up
roweling
driving on
setting astir
leaning on
sounding
causing to occur
stoking up
having
cajoling
hooking
securing
commencing
exercising
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
comforting
giving one an idea
carrying
giving impetus
enduing
infecting
beghasting
accomplishing
being a factor in
exacerbating
educing
summoning
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
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
adding fuel to the flames
adding fuel
assisting
steering
putting a bomb under
consoling
praising
aiding
impressing on
making willing
bringing round
startling
risking
sending
paying off
corrupting
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
whetting one's appetite
innovating
dictating
costing
nourishing
brainstorming
nursing
bribing
reinforcing
guiding
deciding
improving
begging
making alive
giving life to
giving new life to
breathing new life into
giving a buzz
lighting up
serving
pleading
enjoining
succouring
UK
succoring
US
conceiving
coming out with
dreaming up
thinking up
admonishing
entreating
adjuring
imploring
enriching
approving
propagating
whomping up
endowing
giving birth to
requesting
appealing
insisting
giving a leg up
paving the way for
nagging
manoeuvring
UK
maneuvering
US
sanctioning
proposing
wheedling
regulating
controlling
pushing for
putting pressure on
insisting on
rationalizing
US
using pressure on
twisting someone's arm
calling on
appealing to
putting the heat on
rationalising
UK
putting the screws on
conjuring
commending
railroading into
trying to persuade
bulldozing into
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
suborning
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
dimpling
forming ripples on
forming something into ridges
tangling
tousling
disheveling
dishevelling
mussing
messing up
“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
disturbing
jumbling
confusing
rumpling
disarraying
muddling
disrupting
upsetting
shuffling
disjointing
scrambling
dislocating
mixing up
hashing
unsettling
cluttering
messing
throwing into disorder
scattering
rummaging
displacing
spoiling
getting out of order
putting out of place
tossing
agitating
crumpling
wrinkling
snarling up
making disorderly
bringing into disorder
turning upside down
throwing into disarray
making a shambles of
throwing into confusion
turning topsy-turvy
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
embroiling
discreating
rearranging
muddling up
breaking up
putting out of order
interfering with
screwing up
playing havoc with
mucking up
distempering
meddling
distorting
tampering
bringing into disarray
throwing into a state of disorganization
mistaking
strewing
changing
dispersing
intermixing
shifting
mismanaging
reordering
reorganizing
US
mingling
transposing
reorganising
UK
throwing into chaos
putting in disarray
breaking down
shifting about
changing the order
breaking the deck
horking
borking
rattling
throwing
stopping
bollixing
causing confusion in
upsetting the applecart
messing with
throwing a spanner in the works
intruding on
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
causing turmoil in
muddying the waters
rattling one's cage
cutting short
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
persecuting
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 compress into small folds or ridges
crimping
creasing
wrinkling
crumpling
crinkling
puckering
rumpling
furrowing
folding
scrunching
corrugating
gathering
ruckling
pleating
rucking
ridging
pinching
crimpling
rimpling
fluting
crisping
screwing
grooving
ruching
concertinaing
goffering
pressing
pressing together
squeezing together
cockling
rucking up
scrunching up
tucking
screwing up
contracting
pursing
shirring
tightening
knitting
shrivelling
UK
shriveling
US
pouting
compressing
wreathing
seaming
squeezing
bunching
crushing
drawing together
twisting
curling
puckering up
curling up
scalloping
lining
drawing
coiling
winding
condensing
scrumpling
bedraggling
scrumpling up
pulling together
tousling
wrapping
constricting
swaddling
closing
pruning up
covering with lines
contorting
distorting
warping
deforming
misshaping
torturing
squinching
crunching
dog-earing
squashing
mashing
doubling up
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to hold hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look
backcombing
brushing
coaxing
coiffing
coifing
combing
styling
teasing
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
faltering
lurching
teetering
bobbling
pitching
quailing
tossing
writhing
flourishing
careening
brandishing
bobbing
squirming
weaving
bouncing
jittering
pumping
throbbing
moving from side to side
thrilling
dangling
rattling
wriggling
cringing
fidgeting
fidgetting
wincing
starting
nodding
squiggling
jigging
fiddling
wielding
flinching
cowering
knocking
waving to and fro
jostling
shaking up
banging
recoiling
skipping
hopping
roiling
stumbling
tumbling
disturbing
quaving
dancing
becoming unsteady
blenching
swinging backwards and forwards
swinging back and forth
squinching
waddling
jumping around
switching
shaking like a leaf
swerving
tingling
moving back and forth
trilling
warbling
gyrating
noting
see-sawing
pushing
raising
jumping
grinding
having the shakes
having the quivers
swiping
pendulating
twinkling
glimmering
winking
blinking
rousing
concussing
crouching
moving around
lashing
listing
plunging
thrusting
moving about
keeling
flailing about
ducking
floundering
whiffling
moving slightly
labouring
UK
fish-tailing
swaggering
moving backwards and forwards
nutating
moving side to side
pitchpoling
hanging
toddling
baulking
UK
balking
US
shoving
nudging
going around
titubating
waving around
contorting
working
toppling
veering
stotting
walking unsteadily
shrinking
yanking
hitching
trembling precariously
shaking uncontrollably
unsettling
shaking violently
bothering
tormenting
dumping
chucking
ditching
buffeting
buffetting
laboring
US
tossing around
worming
zigzagging
letting fly
thrashing about
seething
shying
bubbling
foaming
springing
simmering
hesitating
motioning
suffering a fit
going into spasms
swinging from side to side
swinging to and fro
pounding
drawing back
shying away
thumping
frothing
blanching
pulling back
backing away
reverberating
thudding
moiling
boiling
thrumming
drumming
hammering
resonating
pit-a-patting
quopping
getting cold feet
shrinking back
aching
pitpatting
going pit-a-pat
more ❯
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 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
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
more ❯
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