Crossword-Solution: IRRITATE 8 letters, 99 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
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
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.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
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.
Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 1994
Sometimes, of old, Gordon used to irritate him; but this danger appeared completely to have passed away.
Confidence Henry James 2006
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.
Flatland: Edwin A. Abbot 1995
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.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008

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.
Osho
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?
Sherrilyn Kenyon Devil May Cry
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 …
Audre Lorde
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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).