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Adjective

Causing annoyance, frustration, or worry

Causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed

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

Noun

The act of deliberately pestering or annoying someone

The playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks

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Adjective

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Causing annoyance, frustration, or worry

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

unfavorable^US

enough to try the patience of a saint

enough to drive you up the wall

gruelling^UK

grueling^US

bedevilling^UK

sombre^UK

somber^US

bedeviling^US

unsavory^US

unsavoury^UK

humourless^UK

humorless^US

meagre^UK

meager^US

ill-favored^US

gray^US

grey^UK

emotionally exhausting

emotionally depleting

dishonoring^US

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“This is most vexing and I think a serious clarification of our respective roles in this relationship should be undertaken, pronto.”

Adjective

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Causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed

libellous^UK

libelous^US

unfavorable^US

politically incorrect

dishonoring^US

minimizing^US

minimising^UK

libeling^US

libelling^UK

ill-humored^US

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Adjective

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Hard to comprehend mentally

full of twists and turns

difficult to understand

ravelled^UK

raveled^US

impossible to understand

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Verb

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(usually used in third person form "gets") Annoying or irritating (someone)

rubbing up the wrong way

giving someone the hump

driving mad

driving crazy

driving nuts

making someone see red

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

bedevilling^UK

bedeviling^US

getting under your skin

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

getting on one's nerves

saddening

molesting

driving round the bend

insulting

rubbing the wrong way

ailing

discomfiting

driving to distraction

making somebody's hackles rise

fazing

niggling

dogging

driving round the twist

giving someone the pip

ruffling one's feathers

putting someone's nose out of joint

getting up someone's nose

getting your dander up

hurting somebody's feelings

hitting where one lives

getting your hackles up

getting across someone

tantalizing^US

tantalising^UK

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

tyrannizing^US

victimizing^US

taking the wind out of your sails

getting down

obsessing

hanging over

sticking in one's craw

getting a rise out of

putting a damper on

victimising^UK

getting on the wrong side of

tyrannising^UK

causing discomfort to

dampening the spirits of

running up the wrong way

pushing someon's buttons

causing resentment to

setting someone's teeth on edge

pushing one's buttons

arousing hostility in

tangling

trolling

occupying thoughts

making someone scratch their head

fearing

sweating

inciting

rattling someone's chain

making an enemy of somebody

breaking the heart of

working into lather

hanging up

getting even

upsetting the applecart

terrorizing^US

bringing pressure to bear on

bruising

consuming

leaning on

making someone fed up

taking the heart out of

pushing the buttons of

making it hot for someone

hunting

terrorising^UK

beating

exiling

sticking the knife into

expelling

making things hot for someone

singling out

getting the knife into

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

treading on someone's toes

gutting

tiring out

making severe demands on

playing cat and mouse

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

giving the cold shoulder

criticizing^US

criticising^UK

shattering the illusions of

jumping on one's case

putting the squeeze on

bending someone's ear

putting someone off their stroke

causing someone to lose their composure

causing to lose heart

satirizing^US

ruling with a rod of iron

putting screws to

keeping down

riding roughshod over

ruling with an iron hand

pulling someone's leg

taking the piss out of

satirising^UK

twisting someone's arm

coming at

putting the heat on

prevailing on

having someone do something

putting the screws on

using strong-arm tactics on

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

inflicting anguish on

getting on the nerves of

getting in the hair of

belabouring^UK

putting to some trouble

searching high heaven

hurting the feelings of

tearing to pieces

knocking the wind out of

making your gorge rise

harshing one's mellow

filling with loathing

causing inconvenience to

imposing upon

creating difficulties for

disengaging

detaching

sending over the edge

belaboring^US

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

carrying a heavy load

getting into a dither

giving someone bother

causing someone difficulty

making someone go out of his way

having an adverse effect on

striking down

going against the grain

causing to feel mental strain

causing to feel emotional strain

going through the mill

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“On the contrary, eating too little implies a lack of mannerliness, which may vex the host.”

Verb

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To be inspiring boredom

Verb

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To be triggering a passionate feeling or reaction

galvanizing^US

energising^UK

energizing^US

galvanising^UK

catalyzing^US

catalysing^UK

lighting a fire under

fueling^US

firing the imagination of

firing the enthusiasm of

fanning the flames of

realizing^US

mobilizing^US

starting the ball rolling

realising^UK

firing with enthusiasm

mobilising^UK

getting someone going

counseling^US

counselling^UK

twisting someone's arm

organizing^US

coming into existence

giving a shot in the arm to

giving shot in arm

determining

striking

getting things rolling

organising^UK

being responsible for

acting as a stimulus to

having as a consequence

acting as an incentive to

innovating

incenting

implying

equaling^US

equalling^UK

adding fuel to the flames

adding fuel

manoeuvring^UK

maneuvering^US

sanctioning

bielding

propping up

raising the morale of

stimulating spiritually

giving confidence to

boosting morale

giving hope to

lifting the spirits of

stiffening the resolve of

building a fire under

putting the screws on

biasing^US

biassing^UK

giving a shot in the arm

giving someone a kick

startling

compassing

favouring^UK

favoring^US

managing

impressing on

making willing

acting as a incentive to

giving the incentive to

whetting one's appetite

being partly responsible for

leaving the door open to

breathing new life into

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

colouring^UK

putting on cloud nine

putting on top of the world

giving a lift to

letting the sun shine in

bringing pressure to bear on

carrying weight with

cutting any ice with

making yourself felt with

bringing pressure to bear upon

coloring^US

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Verb

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Present participle for to confound or perplex someone

making someone scratch their head

distracting

mixing up

setting someone thinking

blowing your mind

astounding

going to your head

causing to be at a stand

messing with one's head

making your head spin

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

balking^US

baulking^UK

stopping someone in their tracks

knocking out

boggling the mind

screwing up

knocking the stuffing out of

putting someone off their stroke

putting out of countenance

setting someone back on their heels

putting someone off their stride

putting into a flap

causing someone to lose their composure

causing to lose your bearings

dizzying

dejecting

filling with wonder

filling with amazement

pouring cold water on

throwing cold water on

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

pulling the rug from under

pulling the rug out from under

hindering

disarranging

fouling up

upsetting the applecart

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“A thousand such questions as these would vex even the most motivated reader.”

Verb

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Present participle for to fill with distress or alarm

terrorising^UK

terrorizing^US

paralysing^UK

paralyzing^US

filling with consternation

messing up

throwing into a tizzy

putting someone off their stroke

setting someone back on their heels

making self-conscious

putting someone off their stride

taking the wind out of your sails

putting out of countenance

making someone scratch their head

causing to be at a stand

traumatizing^US

throwing off

stopping someone in their tracks

jarring

putting into a flap

throwing into a tizz

pulling the rug from under

causing someone to lose their composure

pulling the rug out from under

galvanizing^US

galvanising^UK

balking^US

baulking^UK

pouring cold water on

throwing cold water on

scaring the bejesus out of

making someone jump out of their skin

giving someone a jolt

giving someone a fright

upsetting the applecart

hitting like ton of bricks

raising someone's eyebrows

completely surprising

thunderstriking

insulting

grossing out

shaking out of your complacency

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Noun

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The act of deliberately pestering or annoying someone

offence^UK

offense^US

being rubbed up the wrong way

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Noun

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The playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks

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