Crossword-Solution: VEX 3 letters, 166 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Vex v. t. To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
Vex v. t. To make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to
irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to trouble; to
tease.
Vex v. t. To twist; to weave.
Vex v. i. To be irritated; to fret.

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VEX anagram EXV

We have 166 clues for the answer “VEX”

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Annoy and baffle 1 answer
Annoy pettily 1 answer
Be bothersome to 1 answer
Bring stress or agitation to 1 answer
Bring trouble to 1 answer
Bug or badger 1 answer
Bug or rile 1 answer
Cause disquiet 1 answer
Cause to fret 1 answer
Cause trouble for 1 answer
Hector or harry 1 answer
subject to prolonged examination, discussion, or deliberation 1 answer
Needle or nettle 2 answers
Frump 2 answers
give a bad time to 2 answers
Leave puzzled 2 answers
Having veins. 2 answers
disturb the peace of mind of 2 answers
Cause distress to 3 answers
fash 3 answers
Really try 3 answers
Seriously annoy 3 answers
SUBJECT to severe strain 4 answers
Be a bother to 4 answers
Be a thorn in the side of 4 answers
Miffs 4 answers
Really irritate 4 answers
Cheese off 4 answers
Make sore 6 answers
Niggle 7 answers
Get under the skin of 8 answers
Grate on 9 answers
Eat at 9 answers
Really bother 9 answers
Give a hard time 9 answers
CAUSE OF DISTRESS 10 answers
Acerbate 10 answers
Drive up the wall 10 answers
Cause distress 11 answers
A NAME FOR A BADGER 11 answers
Really annoy 12 answers
BADGER YOUNG 12 answers
MAKE anxious 13 answers
GET to 16 answers
antagonize 19 answers
Miff 19 answers
Roil 20 answers
Stump 24 answers
exacerbate 25 answers
Tick (off) 26 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VEX (5)

Then he lay down on the bed outside the coverlet, to vex her still more; for she had always tucked them inside it, because you never know that you may not grow chilly at the turn of the night.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Farr less abhorrd then these Vex’d _Scylla_ bathing in the Sea that parts _Calabria_ from the hoarce _Trinacrian_ shore: Nor uglier follow the Night-Hag, when call’d In secret, riding through the Air she comes Lur’d with the smell of infant blood, to dance With _Lapland_ Witches, while the labouring Moon Eclipses at thir charms.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
CHAPTER X Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man’s passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings; Vex’d and tormented, runs poor Barrabas, With fatal curses towards these Christians.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
VOLUME I CHAPTER I Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
Emma Jane Austen 1994
Now, however, his good-natured, honest, stupid soul, full of indignation against me, and concern for your sister, could not resist the temptation of telling me what he knew ought to, though probably he did not think it _would_, vex me horridly.
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1994

Quotes with VEX (3)

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
Hermann Hesse Peter Camenzind
This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.
Julia Quinn The Viscount Who Loved Me
My God." He pushed away from the bedpost. "Friends! And do you fall into bed with any man who's 'dear' to you? How am I to take that?""Of course I don't." She stood up, letting the knotted scarf slip away. "I can't seem to help myself. With you. About that. It's extremely vexing.""You're quite right on that count," he said sullenly. "I'm damned vexed. I'd like to vex you right here on the floor, in fact. And the idea of Sturgeon vexing you is enough to dispose me to murder. I…
Laura Kinsale Lessons in French
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 218 times in crossword archives (1972–2025).