All get on one's nerves synonyms

verb get on one's nerves

• irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
• incite — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
• raise — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
• anger — Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
• foment — to instigate or foster (discord, rebellion, etc.); promote the growth or development of: to foment trouble; to foment discontent.
• 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.
• provoke — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
• irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
• annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
• inflame — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
• aggravate — If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
• displease — to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy: His reply displeased the judge.
• infuriate — to make furious; enrage.
• offend — to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me.
• rile — to irritate or vex.
• arouse — If something arouses a particular reaction or attitude in people, it causes them to have that reaction or attitude.
• antagonize — If you antagonize someone, you make them feel angry or hostile towards you.
• incense — an aromatic gum or other substance producing a sweet odor when burned, used in religious ceremonies, to enhance a mood, etc.
• outrage — an act of wanton cruelty or violence; any gross violation of law or decency.
• rankle — (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
• bedevil — If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time.
• hector — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
• torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
• hassle — a disorderly dispute.
• 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).
• badger — A badger is a wild animal which has a white head with two wide black stripes on it. Badgers live underground and usually come up to feed at night.
• worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
• abet — If one person abets another, they help or encourage them to do something criminal or wrong. Abet is often used in the legal expression 'aid and abet'.
• set — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
• perturb — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
• insult — to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.
• abrade — To abrade something means to scrape or wear down its surface by rubbing it.
• upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
• roil — to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
• pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
• 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.
• nag — to annoy by persistent faultfinding, complaints, or demands.
• get — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• peeve — to render peevish; annoy.
• tease — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
• dog — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
• vex — to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
• nettle — any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs. Compare nettle family.
• pique — a fabric of cotton, spun rayon, or silk, woven lengthwise with raised cords.
• bum — Someone's bum is the part of their body which they sit on.
• irk — to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
• hack — to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
• gall — (Pizi) 1840?–94, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux: a major chief in the battle of Little Bighorn.
• grate — a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
• bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.