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All badger synonyms

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verb badger

  • annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
  • bully — A bully is someone who uses their strength or power to hurt or frighten other people.
  • tease — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
  • pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
  • goad — a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
  • harass — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
  • torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
  • heckle — to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
  • hound — Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
  • nudge — to annoy with persistent complaints, criticisms, or pleas; nag: He was always nudging his son to move to a better neighborhood.
  • ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
  • needle — a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
  • importune — to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
  • eat — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
  • plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
  • harry — to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry: He was harried by constant doubts.
  • hassle — a disorderly dispute.
  • bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
  • bait — Bait is food which you put on a hook or in a trap in order to catch fish or animals.
  • press — to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
  • bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
  • nag — to annoy by persistent faultfinding, complaints, or demands.
  • give the business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • work on — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
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