Crossword-Solution: IRRITATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Irritate | v. t. | To render null and void. |
| Irritate | v. t. | To increase the action or violence of; to heighten excitement in; to intensify; to stimulate. |
| Irritate | v. t. | To excite anger or displeasure in; to provoke; to tease; to exasperate; to annoy; to vex; as, the insolence of a tyrant irritates his subjects. |
| Irritate | v. t. | To produce irritation in; to stimulate; to cause to contract. See Irritation, n., 2. |
| Irritate | n. | To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage. |
| Irritate | a. | Excited; heightened. |
We have 99 clues for the answer “IRRITATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| PROVOKE, annoy | 1 answer |
| Make annoyed | 1 answer |
| Cause a rash | 1 answer |
| Rub against | 4 answers |
| Make sore | 6 answers |
| GO against the grain | 6 answers |
| Get one's goat | 7 answers |
| Niggle | 7 answers |
| Piss off | 7 answers |
| Rankles | 9 answers |
| bug needle | 10 answers |
| Acerbate | 10 answers |
| TEMPERATURE, raise the | 10 answers |
| Really annoy | 12 answers |
| Rasp | 16 answers |
| GET to | 16 answers |
| Tickle | 18 answers |
| burn up | 18 answers |
| antagonize | 19 answers |
| Roil | 20 answers |
| crucify | 23 answers |
| make worse | 25 answers |
| exacerbate | 25 answers |
| Gnaw | 28 answers |
| martyr | 28 answers |
| excruciate | 29 answers |
| Molest | 29 answers |
| Madden | 29 answers |
| Rankle | 29 answers |
| Rub the wrong way | 29 answers |
| CALL up feeling | 31 answers |
| beleaguer | 31 answers |
| Tantalise | 31 answers |
| wring | 31 answers |
| Rile | 31 answers |
| Chafe | 33 answers |
| MAKE irate | 34 answers |
| besiege | 37 answers |
| Rack | 37 answers |
| agonise | 37 answers |
| Abrade | 38 answers |
| make havoc | 38 answers |
| Peeve | 39 answers |
| Stir up | 41 answers |
| Nettle | 41 answers |
| Bedevil | 41 answers |
| Grate | 43 answers |
| Spite | 44 answers |
| Huff | 44 answers |
| Churn | 45 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with IRRITATE (5)
Which of you is it to be?” “Don’t irritate him unnecessarily,” had been Wendy’s instructions in the hold; so Tootles stepped forward politely.
Relying too much on the offensive weapons of their acute angles instead of the defensive organs of good sense and seasonable simulations, these reckless creatures too often neglect the prescribed construction of the women’s apartments, or irritate their wives by ill-advised expressions out of doors, which they refuse immediately to retract.
Sometimes, of old, Gordon used to irritate him; but this danger appeared completely to have passed away.
Relying too much on the offensive weapons of their acute angles instead of the defensive organs of good sense and seasonable simulation, these reckless creatures too often neglect the prescribed construction of the women's apartments, or irritate their wives by ill-advised expressions out of doors, which they refuse immediately to retract.
The opponents of the measure declared that the war was over, and the necessity for war measures past; that the Bureau, by reason of its extraordinary powers, was clearly unconstitutional in time of peace, and was destined to irritate the South and pauperize the freedmen, at a final cost of possibly hundreds of millions.
Quotes with IRRITATE (3)
With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.
Kat laughed. 'Who wants to live forever?'Kish put his hand up. 'For the record, I do.'Sin scowled at him. 'Then why do you irritate me so often?'Suicidal tendencies are inherent in my species?
I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language." I began to ask each time: "What's the worst that could happen to me if I tell …
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 46 times in crossword archives (1961–2024).