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What is another word for
vexing
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▲
Adjective
Causing annoyance, frustration, or worry
Tending to cause anxiety or concern
Causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed
Intended to provoke or make fun of someone in a playful way
Hard to comprehend mentally
Verb
(
usually used in third person form "gets"
)
Annoying or irritating (someone)
To be inspiring boredom
To be triggering a passionate feeling or reaction
Present participle for to confound or perplex someone
Present participle for to fill with distress or alarm
Present participle for to put down or control by cruelty or force
Present participle for to effectively force (someone) to do something
Noun
The act of deliberately pestering or annoying someone
The subjection of someone or something to contemptuous and dismissive language or behavior
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▲
Adjective
▲
Causing annoyance, frustration, or worry
aggravating
annoying
bothersome
vexatious
exasperating
galling
irritating
irksome
maddening
rankling
troublesome
worrisome
worrying
abrasive
pesky
puzzling
riling
carking
chafing
difficult
disturbing
frustrating
nettlesome
nettling
peeving
pestiferous
pestilent
pestilential
plaguy
pesty
plaguey
rebarbative
provoking
trying
infuriating
tiresome
infernal
displeasing
confounded
upsetting
cussed
grating
disagreeable
troubling
wearisome
harassing
tedious
inconvenient
awkward
nagging
distressing
unpleasant
antagonizing
US
niggling
burdensome
antagonising
UK
unsettling
unwelcome
perturbing
enraging
wearing
irking
enough to try the patience of a saint
enough to drive you up the wall
agitating
disconcerting
teasing
jarring
harrying
objectionable
wretched
repugnant
thorny
painful
discouraging
challenging
forbidding
knotty
taxing
incommodious
disappointing
tricky
mean
festering
antipathetic
ugly
wicked
demanding
boring
unsatisfying
unattractive
impossible
discommoding
bedevilling
UK
discomposing
discomforting
unpleasing
agonizing
US
unnerving
unamusing
punchable
agonising
UK
uncongenial
bedeviling
US
traumatic
accursed
disquieting
troublous
deplorable
lamentable
problematic
humiliating
tormenting
afflicting
concerning
nauseating
distasteful
unpalatable
plaguing
acid
afflictive
harrasive
sticky
sensitive
tough
touchy
delicate
problematical
complicated
hairy
prickly
hard
dodgy
intricate
catchy
complex
nasty
tricksy
involved
convoluted
perplexing
ticklish
controversial
spiny
baffling
vexed
severe
formidable
contentious
dicey
provocative
heated
emotive
precarious
embarrassing
divisive
critical
volatile
scandalous
uncertain
hair-trigger
unpredictable
uncomfortable
more ❯
“This is most
vexing
and I think a serious clarification of our respective roles in this relationship should be undertaken, pronto.”
Adjective
▲
Tending to cause anxiety or concern
troublous
upsetting
distressing
disturbing
troublesome
disquieting
perturbing
unsettling
troubling
worrisome
discomforting
discomposing
nagging
worrying
bothersome
nasty
trying
annoying
irksome
irritating
aggravating
unpleasant
provoking
harassing
difficult
dismaying
discouraging
wearisome
alarming
tiresome
inconvenient
painful
distressful
burdensome
disconcerting
disagreeable
frightening
startling
discommoding
severe
agitating
ominous
depressing
foreboding
gloomy
onerous
sinister
perplexing
creepy
hard
laborious
pessimistic
toilsome
consequential
disruptive
impeding
intrusive
threatening
embarrassing
prophetic
uncertain
harrowing
exasperating
vexatious
traumatic
taxing
nerve-racking
excruciating
galling
maddening
infuriating
tough
tormenting
agonizing
US
grim
heavy
stressful
awkward
cruel
harsh
agonising
UK
dreadful
grievous
bitter
fraught
sticky
frustrating
exacting
tricky
demanding
hairy
unnerving
tense
displeasing
shocking
arduous
anxious
oppressive
rough
unfortunate
testing
torturous
hellish
problematic
appalling
niggling
thorny
tragic
pesky
wearing
exhausting
daunting
challenging
unfavorable
US
unfavourable
UK
pressured
offensive
hurtful
brutal
gruelling
UK
rugged
dire
pestiferous
sad
grueling
US
heartrending
tiring
pestilent
strenuous
dismal
punishing
afflicting
weighty
inopportune
horrifying
heartbreaking
inexpedient
disheartening
inflammatory
untimely
incendiary
restless
nervous
nail-biting
nerve-wracking
uneasy
unsuitable
disappointing
horrific
unwelcome
unseasonable
agitational
terrifying
awful
inflaming
inappropriate
grave
ghastly
controversial
plaguy
goading
insulting
incommoding
macabre
discommodious
ugly
enervating
draining
heart-rending
prickly
incommodious
harrying
unpalatable
affronting
unkind
distasteful
loathsome
dangerous
tedious
hectic
sapping
regrettable
lamentable
agitative
woeful
horrible
back-breaking
gut-wrenching
anxiety-ridden
in-your-face
crushing
ill-timed
rigorous
confronting
numbing
fatiguing
infernal
anxiety provoking
disadvantageous
rankling
unhandy
murderous
stiff
hardhanded
inhuman
searing
unmanageable
unwieldy
racking
torturing
raging
wrenching
unforgiving
a stinker of a
tight
exigent
grating
cumbersome
detrimental
inciting
rousing
instigative
pestilential
concerning
dispiriting
arousing
scary
importunate
melancholic
austere
unlucky
unhappy
parlous
anxious-making
forbidding
intractable
ungovernable
undisciplined
murder
damaging
repressive
uphill
rowdy
messy
infestive
wicked
mean
disorderly
aggressive
instigating
outrageous
bad
glum
mephitical
irritable
unpropitious
sombre
UK
dreary
repellant
repellent
melancholy
bewildering
depressive
revulsive
unamusing
poignant
inauspicious
hopeless
off-putting
uncongenial
unpleasing
abhorrent
distressed
bleak
sullen
morose
repugnant
somber
US
troubled
cheerless
tormentous
plaguing
anguishing
horrid
delicate
incensing
provocative
confrontational
rabble-rousing
heady
horrendous
terrible
gruesome
demoralizing
US
frightful
sensitive
monstrous
grotesque
abominable
unspeakable
disgusting
atrocious
unsightly
vile
sickening
grisly
emotionally draining
complicated
tricksy
objectionable
direful
hideous
lurid
nauseating
foul
complex
intricate
nauseous
disobliging
involved
demoralising
UK
hateful
convoluted
affecting
chilling
haunting
tearing
irking
miserable
uncomfortable
knotty
wretched
rotten
lousy
dodgy
problematical
doleful
nightmarish
execrable
revolting
ticklish
hostile
tragical
hellacious
touchy
poor
catchy
precarious
gross
detestable
unsavory
US
odious
unlovely
critical
unsavoury
UK
spiny
iffy
chancy
solemn
sober
humourless
UK
humorless
US
oppressed
vicious
stark
savage
saddening
afflictive
repulsive
nettlesome
sour
obnoxious
hazardous
dark
icky
yukky
baffling
yucky
perilous
grody
invidious
dubious
vexed
unbearable
deplorable
pitiless
merciless
ruthless
impoverished
mortifying
sedate
unappealing
risky
undesirable
nice
unfriendly
suspect
questionable
spartan
unsteady
unstable
inconstant
volatile
capricious
fickle
temperamental
mercurial
rocky
variable
changeable
gnawing
puzzling
panicky
intimidating
poverty-stricken
menacing
fierce
intense
mystifying
jarring
mighty
formidable
harmful
acute
crummy
crashing
injurious
destructive
fearful
unsatisfactory
stinking
unendurable
unacceptable
abysmal
diabolical
rancid
pathetic
uncool
grotty
godawful
uninviting
teasing
anguished
sorrowful
beastly
heart-breaking
extremely bad
dicey
unattractive
gnarly
eye-watering
serious
drear
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed
offensive
derogatory
insulting
abusive
disparaging
rude
scurrilous
slighting
contemptuous
hurtful
objectionable
degrading
disrespectful
obnoxious
insolent
vulgar
spiteful
malicious
scandalous
unpleasant
discourteous
mean
exceptionable
wounding
unacceptable
unkind
reprehensible
nasty
dirty
uncivil
affronting
displeasing
cruel
hostile
snide
unmannerly
upsetting
censurable
low
coarse
impolite
hateful
impertinent
annoying
detestable
inconsiderate
indecent
impudent
provocative
vindictive
personal
despiteful
outrageous
provoking
crude
irritating
humiliating
exasperating
galling
shocking
improper
distasteful
deplorable
repugnant
insufferable
unwelcome
undesirable
abhorrent
contemptible
disgusting
disagreeable
inappropriate
insupportable
intolerable
beyond the pale
out of line
out of order
profane
foul
blasphemous
ungracious
churlish
indelicate
uncouth
bad-mannered
filthy
ill-mannered
disdainful
obscene
smutty
gross
surly
presumptuous
boorish
salacious
derisive
bad
vile
lewd
scatological
insubordinate
blunt
scatologic
crass
unfriendly
cheeky
out-of-line
ill-bred
earthy
bold
off colour
irreverent
cocky
foul-mouthed
mannerless
uncharitable
loutish
colourful
UK
thoughtless
unmannered
ribald
lippy
raunchy
unhandsome
sacrilegious
Rabelaisian
uncalled-for
suggestive
brusque
rough
bawdy
blue
contumelious
bitter
sordid
brash
audacious
indecorous
colorful
US
fresh
wanton
saucy
X-rated
flip
unprintable
graceless
debased
forward
tactless
cheap
malevolent
impure
malignant
cantankerous
ungodly
catty
oafish
scornful
impious
ignorant
curt
unrefined
malign
uncomplimentary
smart-alecky
racy
venomous
sarcastic
aweless
sharp
tasteless
ill-humored
US
bad-tempered
mean-spirited
ill-tempered
ill-natured
evil-minded
ill-humoured
UK
gruff
abrupt
short
licentious
arrogant
brazen
sassy
offhand
base
nervy
wicked
overbearing
dishonorable
US
vicious
belligerent
antagonistic
dishonourable
UK
peremptory
unchivalrous
ungallant
iconoclastic
malapert
combative
unladylike
sullen
ungentlemanly
lascivious
aggressive
vitriolic
confrontational
inhospitable
pugnacious
bellicose
angry
badly behaved
trashy
stag
pornographic
gutter
near the knuckle
close to the bone
porny
wrathful
uncongenial
unsympathetic
disgracious
misbehaved
wretched
flippant
rancorous
unsociable
poisonous
scrappy
sour
ignoble
tacky
joyless
militant
ornery
furious
unholy
irreverential
unhallowed
crusty
uncivilized
US
inelegant
viperous
locker-room
uncivilised
UK
depraved
Fescennine
obloquious
acerbic
scathing
belittling
violent
berating
pejorative
reproachful
reviling
denigratory
defamatory
vituperative
vituperatory
calumniating
low-bred
choice
ill-behaved
immoral
strong
naughty
fruity
sleazy
spicy
steamy
sinful
atrocious
harsh
gamy
adult
porn
porno
awkward
unsophisticated
grody
raw
roughneck
common
loud-mouthed
loud
brassy
rank
godless
cocksure
unpolished
uncultured
irritable
wise
pert
snippy
profanatory
unfilial
smart
brassbound
rotten
arch
grouchy
sulky
barefaced
tetchy
snappish
grumpy
snappy
irascible
cross
dictatorial
procacious
magisterial
cranky
querulous
stroppy
testy
narky
ratty
shirty
peevish
fractious
petulant
imperative
breezy
brazen-faced
soreheaded
splenetic
huffy
miffy
grumbling
peckish
liverish
crotchety
curmudgeonly
waxy
chippy
bold-faced
lacking civility
bad mannered
unwholesome
off-base
despicable
short-tempered
hot-tempered
quick-tempered
on a short fuse
short-fused
put down
execrable
currish
virulent
ignominious
paltry
unsportsmanlike
unfair
ruthless
low-minded
low-down
repulsive
odious
undiplomatic
ungenteel
mouthy
smart alecky
ungraceful
underbred
inaffable
intrusive
crabbed
yokelish
bounderish
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Intended to provoke or make fun of someone in a playful way
teasing
bantering
irritating
jokey
joking
joshing
mischievous
mocking
playful
badgering
bothering
disturbing
exasperating
harassing
kidding
plaguing
provoking
ribbing
taunting
tickling
tongue-in-cheek
tormenting
coquettish
coy
enigmatic
flirtatious
provocative
suggestive
tantalising
UK
tantalizing
US
tempting
jesting
rallying
razzing
funning
fooling
chaffing
derisive
quizzical
jeering
alluring
frustrating
enticing
exciting
persuading
drawing
beautiful
mouthwatering
spiteful
hurtful
flippant
lighthearted
humorous
funny
facetious
amusing
sardonic
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Hard to comprehend mentally
difficult
complex
complicated
hard
confusing
puzzling
tricky
baffling
bewildering
confounding
convoluted
incomprehensible
intricate
mystifying
perplexing
abstract
elaborate
impenetrable
involved
obscure
unclear
unfathomable
unintelligible
deep
detailed
inexplicable
knotty
labyrinthine
mind-bending
mind-boggling
problematical
profound
recondite
sophisticated
troublesome
undecipherable
abstruse
entangled
esoteric
fancy
fathomless
inscrutable
mysterious
mystical
paradoxical
rambling
tangled
thorny
thought-provoking
beyond comprehension
beyond one's grasp
full of twists and turns
hard to explain
hard to solve
opaque
above your head
enigmatic
fiddly
gnarly
involute
involuted
over one's head
enigmatical
advanced
byzantine
cryptic
difficult to understand
unsolvable
ambiguous
hazy
tortuous
arcane
Byzantine
labyrinthian
unaccountable
dark
hidden
baroque
daedal
confused
occult
complicate
Gordian
wildering
mystic
insoluble
murky
Delphic
tough
insolvable
problematic
secret
concealed
serpentine
unknowable
heavy
challenging
jumbled
cabalistic
Daedalian
sibylline
awkward
dense
beyond one
rarefied
uncanny
unanswerable
cabbalistic
hermetic
hermetical
unexplainable
mazy
equivocal
strange
interlaced
elliptical
little known
elliptic
odd
weird
chaotic
mixed up
peculiar
devious
oracular
oblique
taxing
double-edged
hard to understand
disconcerting
weighty
serious
funny
messy
worrying
spiny
vague
ramified
befuddling
inextricable
indecipherable
twisted
nebulous
orphic
acroamatic
winding
misleading
muddled
fuliginous
sphinxlike
cumbersome
circuitous
drawn-out
unexplained
impossible to understand
long-drawn-out
high-tech
knotted
mixed
recherché
maze-like
as clear as mud
ravelled
UK
clear as mud
unsolved
raveled
US
bamboozling
surprising
Daedalean
hard to follow
inaccessible
hi-tech
metaphysical
private
perplexed
hairy
inner
intense
subtle
finicky
formidable
hypermetric
untold
arduous
magical
curious
scrambled
cerebral
intellectual
erudite
secretive
ticklish
bizarre
Greek to me
elite
demanding
beyond understanding
undiscoverable
contradictory
inconsistent
clear as dishwater
beyond you
full of surprises
insuperable
unattainable
impossible
hopeless
unrealizable
undoable
mixed-up
queer
mysterial
ineffable
unresolvable
muddling
unnatural
intertwined
interwoven
veiled
little-known
out-of-the-way
high-level
higher-level
stealthy
unknown
blurring
unsettling
disorienting
incognizable
sinuous
cagey
subjective
indirect
roundabout
ungraspable
unexcogitable
muddlesome
mistakable
ornate
indiscernible
irresolvable
without a solution
unresolved
unable to be solved
unconcluded
plotty
top-level
multifaceted
multifarious
variegated
rococo
heterogeneous
nuanced
uncertain
indefinite
long-winded
indistinct
dubious
doubtful
indeterminate
foggy
tenebrous
can of worms
unstraightforward
obfuscated
amphibological
overlong
verbose
deceptive
lengthy
cunning
perverse
difficult to follow
inconclusive
riddling
debatable
inexplicit
questionable
inconceivable
ambivalent
imprecise
unsettled
unusual
inexact
open
elusive
coded
indecisive
equivocating
two-edged
out of the ordinary
amazing
stupefying
arguable
illogical
conflicting
gnomic
open to debate
open to argument
borderline
undecided
unbelievable
shadowy
unexpected
quaint
blurred
clandestine
unimaginable
clouded
many-faceted
apocryphal
evasive
Delphian
preposterous
dumfounding
fuzzy
up in the air
open to question
stunning
astonishing
eye-popping
staggering
unintuitive
astounding
hinky
polysemous
polysemic
polysemantic
incongruous
multivocal
shrouded
cloaked
improbable
absurd
mazelike
cryptical
bemusing
teasing
covert
stumping
stickling
uninterpretable
settling nothing
proving nothing
disingenuous
malicious
entrapping
labyrinthial
labyrinthical
labyrinthiform
labyrinthic
labyrinthal
dumbfounding
periphrastic
prevaricating
circumlocutory
suspicious
technical
illegible
incredible
blurry
duplicitous
Greek
self-contradictory
ironic
anomalous
oxymoronic
far-out
extraordinary
really hard
very hard
unexplicit
muzzy
shifty
disreputable
ridiculous
not easily understood
gray
US
grey
UK
all Greek to someone
double Dutch
beats me
too hard to understand
too difficult to understand
ludicrous
wild
all Greek to you
manifold
disarranged
disorganized
US
hard to swallow
varied
disordered
unheard of
disorganised
UK
kaleidoscopic
thorough
captious
particularized
US
painstaking
extensive
full
particular
studied
unsure
laboured
UK
perfected
careful
minute
exact
precise
labored
US
circumstantial
skilful
UK
imposing
skillful
US
prodigious
gingerbread
overdone
overworked
particularised
UK
refined
fanciful
eerie
far-fetched
high tech
blow-by-blow
highly wrought
unpredictable
unforeseeable
indistinguishable
speculative
incalculable
undetermined
undefined
unlikely
freaky
outlandish
spooky
freakish
iffy
hesitant
muffled
dicey
intangible
wavering
dodgy
irresolute
weak
vacillating
unforeseen
unthinkable
flustering
overwhelming
whimsical
unannounced
portentous
unanticipated
discomfiting
jarring
unwonted
nonplussing
uncommon
jolting
shattering
unordinary
nonplusing
dismaying
upsetting
conspicuous
in the balance
in doubt
ill-defined
more ❯
Verb
▲
(
usually used in third person form "gets"
)
Annoying or irritating (someone)
getting
annoying
irritating
exasperating
angering
irking
inflaming
putting out
nettling
needling
provoking
incensing
infuriating
maddening
rubbing up the wrong way
aggravating
peeving
miffing
riling
getting to
hacking off
giving someone the hump
driving mad
driving crazy
driving nuts
making someone see red
winding up
agitating
bothering
bugging
narking
getting across
teeing off
perturbing
ticking off
displeasing
eating
grating
ruffling
burning up
chafing
disturbing
frustrating
enraging
galling
firing up
upsetting
getting in someone's hair
getting on someone's nerves
getting on someone's tits
getting on your nerves
getting someone's back up
getting someone's dander up
getting someone's goat
getting someone's hackles up
getting someone's wick
getting under someone's skin
getting up your nose
gnawing
harrying
making someone's hackles rise
making your blood boil
rattling someone's cage
ruffling someone's feathers
trying someone's patience
piquing
troubling
harassing
worrying
plaguing
distressing
hassling
persecuting
pestering
tormenting
offending
rankling
rasping
afflicting
antagonizing
US
riding
spiting
bedevilling
UK
bedeviling
US
fretting
frosting
graveling
gravelling
driving up the wall
griping
antagonising
UK
discomposing
affronting
nagging
itching
disquieting
outraging
besetting
hurting
rattling
paining
goading
bumming out
teasing
badgering
roiling
torturing
exacerbating
oppressing
getting under your skin
humping
getting at
wounding
agonizing
US
burdening
getting in your hair
perplexing
giving a hard time
hounding
disgruntling
hacking you off
harrowing
disconcerting
unsettling
grieving
flustering
beleaguering
racking
getting your back up
agonising
UK
trying
stressing
dismaying
straining
giving someone grief
aggrieving
putting your back up
getting your goat
making angry
ailing
mortifying
getting on one's nerves
concerning
depressing
molesting
driving round the bend
insulting
rubbing the wrong way
discomfiting
driving to distraction
saddening
baiting
getting on your wick
unnerving
making somebody's hackles rise
fazing
flurrying
niggling
unhinging
fussing
dogging
driving round the twist
giving someone the pip
cursing
gnawing at
discomforting
stinging
disgusting
frazzling
distempering
discommoding
haunting
anguishing
grating on
making cross
alarming
ruffling one's feathers
besieging
distracting
madding
iring
making waves
weighing down
rankling with
stirring up
steaming up
putting someone's nose out of joint
getting up someone's nose
incommoding
excruciating
inconveniencing
dissatisfying
enflaming
pursuing
turning off
taxing
picking on
burning
weirding out
raising your hackles
freaking out
getting your dander up
cutting to the quick
trying your patience
taunting
blighting
affecting
devilling
deviling
hectoring
derailing
hagriding
getting someone
shocking
embittering
discombobulating
exercising
mithering
disobliging
appalling
sending into a rage
lying heavy on
causing offense
eating away at
eating at
making anxious
disheartening
discountenancing
embarrassing
heckling
alaruming
cheesing off
undoing
egging on
jarring on
making uneasy
abrading
hurting somebody's feelings
causing suffering to
confusing
discouraging
nudging
slighting
assailing
chivvying
jarring
pricking
throwing
injuring
exciting
confounding
frightening
dissing
bullying
crucifying
hitting where one lives
chagrining
making miserable
making wretched
weighing heavily on
giving a bad time
getting your hackles up
driving bananas
wearing on
causing anguish to
souring
dispiriting
breaking
dejecting
testing
wringing
confronting
smiting
working on
grinding
scandalizing
US
intimidating
scaring
stirring
getting across someone
searing
crazing
empurpling
martyring
spooking
sickening
rousing
crossing
tearing
tantalizing
US
causing anxiety to
tantalising
UK
rattling one's cage
breathing down someone's neck
jangling
trying the patience of
setting one's teeth on edge
acerbating
rubbing you up the wrong way
scandalising
UK
working up
driving you up the wall
throwing off balance
preying on your mind
weighing on
putting down
causing trouble to
pothering
giving offence to
nagging at
henpecking
facing
ribbing
chaffing
ragging
disaffecting
moving
tiring
heating up
daunting
bewildering
victimizing
US
wearying
preoccupying
asking for it
hazing
despairing
striking
dashing
disrespecting
cutting
horrifying
shaking
crushing
disappointing
repelling
chivying
pressing
importuning
attacking
stewing
bringing down
casting down
nauseating
boring
grilling
getting down
browbeating
flooring
puzzling
bumming
indisposing
browning off
interrupting
biting
umbraging
flipping out
wronging
wearing
obsessing
hanging over
sticking in one's craw
causing concern to
hacking
making discontented
making unhappy
eating up
getting a rise out of
victimising
UK
getting on the wrong side of
zinging
making you see red
making uncomfortable
keeping on at
wearing out
causing discomfort to
putting off
possessing
raising hell
cutting up
deranging
festering
startling
occupying
bedogging
causing disquiet to
wigging
getting on someone
touching
running up the wrong way
keeping after
bristling
riling up
steaming
psyching out
throwing off
prodding
mistreating
causing annoyance to
causing resentment to
setting someone's teeth on edge
resenting
panicking
thrilling
stretching
sapping
draining
exhausting
messing with
messing
pushing someon's buttons
chiding
pushing one's buttons
arousing hostility in
tangling
trolling
occupying thoughts
making someone scratch their head
fearing
sweating
inciting
rattling someone's chain
scourging
devastating
pushing
strapping
desolating
doing a number on
arousing anxiety in
pushing buttons
making it tough for
nit-picking
stressing out
jarring upon
grating upon
wearing upon
piercing
boiling
making sore
blowing up
arousing
losing one's temper
dampening spirits
breaking one's heart
suffering from
making restless
unquieting
making fretful
putting on edge
hitting a sour note
getting on
making an enemy of somebody
setting on edge
taking a rise out of
starting
setting on
setting off
working into lather
harming
bullyragging
despoiling
macerating
foraying
jerking around
noodging
grizzling
terrorizing
US
dragging down
making blue
putting a damper on
putting into a funk
chastening
breaking the heart of
repulsing
bruising
consuming
boiling over
whipping up
causing offense to
making indignant
causing offence to
keying up
turning
incapacitating
flipping
rocking the boat
laying up
cramping
turning on
debilitating
making a scene
thwarting
foiling
pressurizing
US
lying heavily on
kicking up a fuss
kicking up a stink
rousting
going on at
putting pressure on
bringing pressure to bear on
leaning on
pressurising
UK
rending
making someone fed up
becoming bored
grating at
having had enough
losing patience
sweating out
dunning
envenoming
terrifying
accosting
discontenting
mourning
pushing the buttons of
thumbing nose at
causing suffering
causing anguish
bleeding
causing sorrow
lambasting
niggling at
tiffing
huffing
petting
driving you crazy
making it hot for someone
hunting
terrorising
UK
beating
exiling
sticking the knife into
expelling
making things hot for someone
dragooning
singling out
getting the knife into
tyrannizing
US
tyrannising
UK
slapping
revolting
chillin
demoralizing
US
chilling
unmanning
crabbing
lousing up
begrudging
hanging up
getting even
upsetting the applecart
grudging
snubbing
sticking it to
dishing it out
giving it to
dishing out
overcharging
driving out of mind
making livid
driving you to distraction
making somebody's blood boil
driving you out of your mind
driving you round the bend
shattering
driving you off your head
driving you round the twist
playing dirty
mispleasing
gutting
tiring out
making severe demands on
making demands on
putting a strain on
alienating
poisoning
slurring
giving offence
humiliating
treading on someone's toes
putting
causing agony to
punishing
abusing
slandering
dumping on
giving the cold shoulder
criticizing
US
criticising
UK
dispraising
giving a zinger
playing cat and mouse
putting through wringer
rubbing salt in wound
overwhelming
entangling
hampering
demoralising
UK
aggressing
giving the business
jumping on one's case
putting the squeeze on
falling upon
starting in on
giving the needle
falling on
making gloomy
lying
making despondent
mixing up
disillusioning
preying on
making desolate
taking the heart out of
impeding
hindering
bending someone's ear
carping at
intruding upon
imposing on
making resentful
jaundicing
making bitter
empoisoning
flummoxing
fuddling
worsening
cowing
putting into a flap
putting someone off their stroke
disrupting
stumping
making nervous
throwing into tizzy
causing someone to lose their composure
shaking up
throwing into a tizz
making rancorous
acidulating
estranging
bittering
venoming
kidding
mocking
ridiculing
deriding
joshing
joking
jiving
razzing
gripping
rallying
satirizing
US
roasting
visiting
taking
bantering
twitting
buffeting
buffetting
gibing
guying
funning
quizzing
chiacking
shucking
smoking
rotting
sledging
spoofing
slamming
snapping
sounding
having on
poking fun at
making a monkey of
poking borak at
making sport of
flouting at
leading on
jibing at
laughing at
poking mullock at
pulling someone's leg
putting on
pulling one's leg
taking the mickey
slinging off at
taking the piss out of
ragging on
scoffing at
making fun of
sending up
messing around
goofing on
swipeing at
jeering at
flirting with
satirising
UK
making jokes about
more ❯
“On the contrary, eating too little implies a lack of mannerliness, which may
vex
the host.”
Verb
▲
To be inspiring boredom
boring
exhausting
fatiguing
jading
tiring
wearing on
wearying
devitalizing
disinteresting
draining
enervating
flagging
growing weary on
sapping
turning off
wearing down
wearing out
discomforting
hebetating
palling
palling on
stultifying
stupefying
wearing
annoying
putting to sleep
sending to sleep
leaving cold
bending one's ear
boring out of one's mind
boring rigid
boring stiff
boring stupid
boring to death
boring to tears
causing weariness
talking one's ear off
Verb
▲
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
ruffling
stimulating
whipping up
baiting
charging
egging on
eliciting
encouraging
enlivening
grilling
kindling
piquing
pumping up
revving up
setting off
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
prompting
spurring
generating
moving
urging
driving
engendering
impelling
producing
sparking
prodding
pushing
occasioning
promoting
initiating
creating
inspiriting
giving rise to
precipitating
spurring on
evoking
fostering
bringing on
leading to
effecting
actuating
firing
bringing
begetting
effectuating
resulting in
quickening
making
catalyzing
US
influencing
pressing
breeding
persuading
invoking
wakening
invigorating
catalysing
UK
propelling
spawning
setting in motion
affecting
putting in motion
calling forth
swaying
envigorating
compelling
raising
whetting
pricking
nudging
exhilarating
yielding
translating into
abetting
emboldening
bringing to pass
fermenting
fanning
working
waking
heartening
contributing to
coercing
vitalizing
steeling
pressuring
beginning
establishing
incentivizing
buoying
boosting
leading
lighting a fire under
uplifting
putting up to
drawing forth
getting going
buoying up
stinging
inclining
brewing
tempting
igniting
instilling
developing
enticing
fuelling
fueling
US
introducing
strengthening
keying up
originating
instituting
dragooning
exhorting
pressurizing
US
hatching
picking
awaking
kick-starting
bucking up
making happen
bringing into being
firing the imagination of
turning on
pressurising
UK
hounding
inviting
cheering
filliping
thrilling
ending in
forcing
whipping
siccing
cheering up
convincing
geeing up
calling into being
launching
reviving
gladdening
helping
making for
necessitating
increasing
titillating
elating
cultivating
bestirring
livening up
making possible
firing the enthusiasm of
bringing forth
setting on
drawing on
setting going
fanning the flames of
advancing
reassuring
badgering
inveigling
revitalizing
US
refreshing
entreating
assuring
soliciting
doing
revivifying
harassing
constraining
egging
cheering on
building up
touching
drawing
entailing
getting
chirking up
bearing up
prevailing upon
psyching up
sowing the seeds of
innervating
exalting
gingering up
countenancing
prevailing on
juicing up
revitalising
UK
amping up
jazzing up
furthering
imploring
coaxing
comforting
advising
commencing
cajoling
beseeching
stoking up
involving
culminating in
brightening
fortifying
empowering
consoling
inaugurating
disposing
adjuring
striking
impressing
setting
summoning
procuring
expediting
bracing
hassling
obliging
predisposing
boosting up
spiking
leaning on
securing
realizing
US
meaning
insisting
spelling
intoxicating
challenging
bullying
starting up
giving
mobilizing
US
finishing in
jump-starting
starting the ball rolling
realising
UK
perking up
trying to persuade
informing
drumming up
firing with enthusiasm
insisting on
appealing to
bearing
setting up
mobilising
UK
zipping up
getting someone going
bribing
counseling
US
counselling
UK
attracting
begging
building
rendering
enjoining
incentifying
actualizing
opening
resulting
supporting
startling
jumpstarting
enheartening
enforcing
accomplishing
enacting
achieving
pushing forward
admonishing
directing
restoring
sanctioning
conditioning
risking
adding to
luring
advocating
conjuring
amounting to
nagging
irritating
exacerbating
pleading
courting
sustaining
wooing
twisting someone's arm
converting
wheedling
organizing
US
asking
founding
bringing round
having a hand in
suborning
favouring
UK
favoring
US
requesting
elevating
nurturing
heightening
contributing
forwarding
demanding
setting in
mustering
spiriting up
propping up
raising your spirits
giving a shot in the arm to
giving shot in arm
determining
getting things rolling
cooking up
organising
UK
having a part in
redounding to
terminating in
propagating
conducing to
innerving
being responsible for
setting afoot
lashing
pushing for
putting pressure on
calling up
putting in place
rooting on
conjuring up
using pressure on
starting off
acting as a stimulus to
calling on
drawing out
rowelling
adding up to
conducing
bringing around
talking into
winning over
begging for
roweling
putting a bomb under
summoning up
livening
bringing on oneself
breathing life into
asking for
sounding
calling upon
applauding
paying off
corrupting
disinhibiting
shocking
bolstering
enhancing
seeking
giving a boost to
reenforcing
implanting
lodging
planting
hooking
exercising
feeding
putting life into
motiving
intriguing
suscitating
costing
bringing up
having as a consequence
presenting
constituting
having as a result
orienting
imposing on
grabbing
progenerating
multiplying
reigniting
rekindling
making wild
heating up
rooting
cranking up
running
imbuing
infusing
recalling
rousting
praising
acting as an incentive to
dynamizing
innovating
giving life to
lighting up
implying
equaling
US
equalling
UK
festering
reminding
appealing
posing
getting to
spooking
activizing
augmenting
boosting moral
raising spirits
chivvying
impacting
brainstorming
making alive
giving new life to
breathing new life into
giving a buzz
nourishing
powering
adding fuel to the flames
adding fuel
manoeuvring
UK
maneuvering
US
bielding
raising the morale of
stimulating spiritually
giving confidence to
boosting morale
giving hope to
lifting the spirits of
stiffening the resolve of
educing
sharpening
calling
giving incentive to
predetermining
giving incentive
setting astir
giving one an idea
carrying
giving impetus
enduing
infecting
beghasting
playing a part in
suggesting to
hinting to
burning up
getting smoking
stunning
astonishing
giving a shot in the arm
giving someone a kick
frightening
zapping
proposing
sowing
disturbing
setting on foot
causing to appear
resurrecting
rationalizing
US
putting the heat on
rationalising
UK
putting the screws on
commending
railroading into
bulldozing into
biasing
US
biassing
UK
digging
burning
building a fire under
getting up
mustering up
gaining
satisfying
playing a role in
impressing on
making willing
enflaming
coming out with
dreaming up
thinking up
invocating
compassing
incenting
prevailing
sweet-talking
smooth-talking
being a factor in
acting as a incentive to
giving the incentive to
managing
bidding
succeeding
tapping
attaining
opening the door for
engineering
whetting one's appetite
resuscitating
bringing off
causing to happen
contriving
being partly responsible for
having the effect of
carrying off
carrying through
oiling the wheels of
pulling off
causing to occur
reactivating
reanimating
reinvigorating
manipulating
cautioning
agitating for
agitating against
vivificating
dispatching
springing
growing
torching
requiring
exacting
alluring
transpiring
aiding
extorting
commandeering
setting burning
setting alight
setting a match to
setting on fire
setting fire to
setting light to
striking up
appearing
emerging
arising
leaving the door open to
commanding
issuing
calling for
flirting with
assisting
backing
occurring
eventuating
suing
petitioning for
imposing
dictating
driving on
hustling
lighting
switching on
putting on
putting match to
putting a match to
dawning
forming
emanating
finagling
brainwashing
steering
jockeying
beguiling
exploiting
playing
controlling
bothering
wresting
making compulsory
cracking down
exerting
forcing upon
strong-arming
expecting
soothing
happening
materializing
US
surfacing
intimidating
solacing
erupting
unfolding
pestering
crystallizing
US
manifesting
inspanning
working upon
recommending
conceiving
whomping up
pulling strings with
talking round
browbeating
prejudicing
warming
harrying
seconding
upraising
kicking off
laying the foundations of
laying the first stone of
getting in operation
getting off the ground
getting the ball rolling
getting something functioning
getting under way
getting something working
setting the ball rolling
turning
colouring
UK
putting on cloud nine
putting on top of the world
giving a lift to
letting the sun shine in
snapping out of it
picking up
giving a lift
bracing up
endorsing
succouring
UK
giving birth to
rising
upholding
backstopping
condoning
championing
speeding up
bringing pressure to bear on
carrying weight with
cutting any ice with
making yourself felt with
bringing pressure to bear upon
sprouting
arriving
pouring it on
selling one on
collaborating with
working with
cooperating with
siding with
lending a hand
colluding with
conniving with
coloring
US
backing up
participating in
conniving
succoring
US
giving a push to
conniving at
going along with
becoming established
coming out
coming to pass
becoming apparent
kicking in
coming into being
springing up
coming into existence
materialising
UK
crystallising
UK
lifting
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to confound or perplex someone
baffling
confounding
confusing
bewildering
perplexing
puzzling
mystifying
bemusing
flummoxing
bamboozling
befuddling
addling
discombobulating
beating
fuddling
muddling
foxing
buffaloing
befogging
disorienting
gravelling
graveling
mazing
getting
posing
muddying
nonplussing
stumping
throwing
stupefying
flooring
fazing
disconcerting
wildering
dumbfounding
fogging
dazing
obfuscating
stunning
mixing up
making someone scratch their head
flustering
flabbergasting
rattling
distracting
setting someone thinking
blowing your mind
going to your head
causing to be at a stand
astounding
amazing
disorientating
staggering
astonishing
throwing off
surprising
shaking
taking aback
stymieing
frustrating
throwing off balance
clouding
overwhelming
snowing
upsetting
discomposing
eluding
disturbing
ruffling
bothering
intoxicating
inebriating
making punchy
bringing up short
striking dumb
catching off balance
balling up
messing with one's head
making your head spin
boggling the mind of
blurring
obscuring
deranging
dulling
beclouding
bedeviling
US
bedevilling
UK
psyching out
confusticating
making unclear
defeating
confuscating
throwing for loop
getting at
worrying
exercising
tangling
involving
besetting
thickening
complicating
jumbling
encumbering
entangling
thwarting
ravelling
UK
mucking
baulking
UK
stumbling
raveling
US
perturbing
balking
US
mixing you up
getting to
snarling up
muddying the waters
startling
unnerving
dismaying
bowling over
shaking up
blowing away
knocking for six
knocking sideways
leaving open-mouthed
leaving aghast
taking by surprise
stopping someone in their tracks
knocking out
boggling the mind
screwing up
knocking the stuffing out of
shocking
rocking
dumfounding
thunderstriking
surprizing
boggling
taking your breath away
rendering speechless
distorting
convoluting
dazzling
knocking for a loop
jolting
benumbing
awing
aweing
foiling
impressing
garbling
striking
moving
touching
overcoming
embroiling
numbing
affecting
discomfiting
electrifying
alarming
unsettling
twisting
making difficult
petrifying
making complex
making more difficult
making difficulties
hitting like a ton of bricks
miring
knocking over
distracting from
putting one away
knocking over with feather
springing on
throwing a curve
setting hurdles
sticking it to
escaping
snookering
outwitting
conquering
filling with wonder
filling with amazement
besotting
putting at a loss
stirring
bedazzling
dislocating
overpowering
gobsmacking
consternating
jarring
knocking senseless
abashing
spellbinding
throwing into a tizzy
hitting
paralyzing
US
paralysing
UK
giving a shock
chagrining
causing wonder
taking the wind out of your sails
striking with awe
causing to lose your bearings
shattering
bringing around
putting away
making speechless
throwing for a loop
defying
leaving speechless
putting out of action
making emotional
sweeping someone off their feet
doing in
hitting for six
misinforming
misleading
making a mess of
obnubilating
rendering uncertain
repressing
leading astray
darkening
muddying up
misrepresenting
concealing
hiding
embarrassing
colouring
UK
tainting
coloring
US
equivocating
tarnishing
fuzzing
falsifying
complexing
sophisticating
complexifying
fuzzing up
throwing up smoke screen
clouding the issue
throwing a veil over
muddying the waters of
disarranging
handicapping
opening can of worms
combining
impeding
interrelating
multiplying
interweaving
interfusing
messing up
folding
snagging
rendering unintelligible
snafuing
infolding
elaborating
making waves
disordering
making complicated
making intricate
fouling up
clogging
adding fuel to fire
mucking up
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“A thousand such questions as these would
vex
even the most motivated reader.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to fill with distress or alarm
dismaying
upsetting
disturbing
perturbing
distressing
worrying
bothering
alarming
agitating
unsettling
discomposing
disquieting
disconcerting
unnerving
troubling
disheartening
daunting
discouraging
concerning
dispiriting
rattling
depressing
discomforting
flustering
flurrying
distracting
ailing
fazing
fussing
unhinging
distempering
frightening
demoralising
UK
demoralizing
US
scaring
shaking
alaruming
saddening
frazzling
shocking
confounding
startling
discomfiting
perplexing
throwing
undoing
bewildering
exercising
horrifying
hagriding
nonplussing
derailing
terrifying
abashing
chilling
chillin
terrorising
UK
terrorizing
US
frustrating
panicking
unmanning
dashing
dumbfounding
appalling
spooking
disappointing
surprising
discountenancing
chagrining
affrighting
embarrassing
flummoxing
puzzling
disillusioning
mystifying
disenchanting
disgruntling
paralysing
UK
pothering
paralyzing
US
taking aback
shaking up
freaking out
weirding out
throwing off balance
getting to
knocking for six
putting off
knocking sideways
putting the wind up
letting down
giving a turn
fouling up
screwing up
filling with consternation
messing up
throwing into a tizzy
ruffling
confusing
annoying
making uneasy
mortifying
irking
discombobulating
taking the wind out of your sails
dejecting
trying
irritating
muddling
making anxious
gnawing at
stirring up
casting down
making uncomfortable
dampening the spirits of
putting someone off their stroke
setting someone back on their heels
fretting
nettling
paining
rousing
galling
intimidating
deterring
bugging
working up
lying heavy on
pestering
needling
weighing down
disordering
causing anxiety
disarranging
disorientating
making waves
making fretful
making a scene
worsting
making self-conscious
putting someone off their stride
cowing
crushing
disobliging
tiring
underwhelming
embittering
afflicting
bumming out
dashing hopes
awing
aweing
dashing the hopes of
overawing
shattering the illusions of
prostrating
repressing
drooping
making despondent
weighing heavily on
making downhearted
psyching out
beating down
breaking one's heart
putting a damper on
causing to lose heart
addling
exciting
bustling
making nervous
provoking
hassling
hurrying
destabilizing
US
sickening
crazing
deranging
affecting
harassing
jolting
chafing
discommoding
throwing off
fidgeting
fidgetting
baffling
unbalancing
destabilising
UK
pulling the rug from under
pulling the rug out from under
putting into a flap
throwing into a tizz
heating
fluttering
hustling
besetting
tormenting
quickening
racking
bedeviling
US
bedevilling
UK
overwhelming
cursing
frenzying
subduing
putting on edge
flipping
fuddling
dementing
browbeating
bullying
putting out
stressing
fearing
stewing
sweating
putting out of countenance
rattling one's cage
bamboozling
befuddling
blinding
flapping
sending into a spin
inflaming
taking pains
astonishing
dizzying
inciting
moving
labouring over
arousing
stimulating
fermenting
getting worked up
getting in a stew
disorganizing
burning up
disarraying
disrupting
catching unawares
catching off balance
mixing up
causing someone to lose their composure
giving someone grief
egging on
causing anxiety to
pushing buttons
turning on
bugging up
making flip
knocking off balance
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to put down or control by cruelty or force
oppressing
abusing
subjugating
suppressing
crushing
maltreating
persecuting
subduing
enslaving
repressing
tyrannising
UK
tyrannizing
US
wronging
hegemonizing
ill-treating
mastering
overcoming
overpowering
overwhelming
exploiting
scourging
subjecting
keeping down
treating harshly
aggrieving
annoying
besetting
chastening
coercing
despotizing
distressing
dominating
encumbering
forcing
grinding down
handicapping
harassing
harrying
holding down
hounding
outraging
overloading
overthrowing
plaguing
pressing
riding
ruling
ruling over
saddling
smothering
straining
taxing
tormenting
torturing
trampling
worrying
holding sway over
putting down
trampling on
trampling underfoot
tyrannizing over
beating down
picking on
putting upon
riding roughshod over
walking all over
bringing to heel
putting screws to
weighing heavy upon
bringing someone to their knees
bringing under the yoke
putting the squeeze on
ruling with a rod of iron
ruling with an iron hand
Verb
▲
Present participle for to effectively force (someone) to do something
pressing
compelling
forcing
assailing
browbeating
cajoling
coercing
dragooning
driving
goading
harassing
impelling
importuning
making
pressuring
pressurising
UK
pressurizing
US
pushing
steamrollering
wheedling
arguing
bulldozing
hounding
obligating
obliging
railroading
besetting
besieging
constraining
impressing
muscling
oppressing
plaguing
sandbagging
swaying
talking
blackjacking
enforcing
tormenting
troubling
insisting on
prevailing on
having someone do something
putting pressure on
using strong-arm tactics on
putting the heat on
putting the screws on
coming at
twisting someone's arm
Noun
▲
The act of deliberately pestering or annoying someone
harassment
vexation
aggravation
annoyance
pestering
bedevilment
harrying
importunity
botheration
bugging
irritation
bother
teasing
disturbance
bothering
agitation
hassle
trouble
exasperation
perturbation
grief
molestation
torment
persecution
badgering
nuisance
provocation
irking
provoking
coercion
intimidation
pressure
pressurisation
UK
pressurization
US
taunting
affront
offence
UK
plaguing
nettling
injury
grievance
insult
niggling
insults
needling
indignity
offense
US
brickbat
being rubbed up the wrong way
inconvenience
problem
hounding
galling
discrimination
bullying
disruption
interruption
stirring
interference
confusion
ruffling
roiling
distraction
whisking
derangement
intrusion
hindrance
convulsion
dislocation
stirring up
churning up
pest
pain
irritant
headache
trial
peeve
bugbear
difficulty
nudnik
irk
drag
worry
ruffle
thorn
plague
rub
bore
tribulation
tease
strain
distress
nudnick
teaser
bind
nark
gadfly
annoyer
skelf
nyaff
persecutor
gnawer
concern
anxiety
worriment
rigmarole
palaver
uphill
perplexity
job
flurry
bellyache
pain in the bum
pain in the backside
pain in the rear
pain in the neck
thorny problem
hair shirt
more ❯
Noun
▲
The subjection of someone or something to contemptuous and dismissive language or behavior
ribbing
teasing
badgering
badinage
banter
bothering
chaff
disturbing
exasperating
harassing
irritating
joking
kidding
mocking
plaguing
provoking
raillery
taunt
taunting
tickling
tormenting
joshing
persiflage
mockery
derision
repartee
ridicule
ragging
chaffing
jeering
jesting
kidology
razzing
scoffing
sneering
disdain
sarcasm
disparagement
scorn
jibing
wordplay
jeer
quips
backchat
witticisms
crosstalk
ripostes
sallies
pleasantry
drollery
sport
gibe
goofing
give-and-take
winding up
witty conversation
witty remarks
bons mots
taking the mickey
contempt
satire
sneer
dig
irony
parody
lampoon
jab
slam
sneers
witticism
wisecracks
taunts
josh
swordplay
swipe
contumely
mimicry
wit
jocularity
chiacking
sardonicism
roast
jibes
twitting
play
fun
needling
leer
put down
leg-pulling
asteism
parting shot
pulling someone's chain
slight
joke
disrespect
derisiveness
japing
wisecracking
gibes
quipping
insult
good-humoured mockery
roasting
lampoonery
bants
gossip
exchange
dissing
chitchat
small talk
playful jab
aggravation
botheration
vexation
bugging
importunity
disturbance
pestering
annoyance
harassment
bedevilment
harrying
bantering
borak
playfulness
cut and thrust
caricature
burlesque
travesty
rib
laughter
farce
comeback
razz
rally
foolery
mordancy
buffoonery
put-on
Bronx cheer
catcall
brickbat
hiss
boo
hoot
abuse
heckling
raspberry
obloquy
jeers
denigration
scoff
bird
pooh-poohing
snort
shout
lampooning
crack
slap
dump
ridiculing
backhanded compliment
wittiness
whistle
frivolity
insults
vilification
scornfulness
wolf whistle
heckle
shout of derision
backhander
pilgarlic
barb
provocation
patter
sally
riposte
jibe
skylarking
clowning about
antics
jokes
fooling around
mischief
clowning around
rejoinder
humour
UK
answer
quip
reply
humor
US
pleasant conversation
bon mot
response
disapproval
hissing
catcalling
hectoring
booing
shouting
interruption
cut
goading
barracking
aspersion
knocking
sledge
reproach
affront
criticism
outrage
censure
slap in the face
dirty dig
verbal abuse
snappy comeback
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