All give the business synonyms

verb give the business

• plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
• 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).
• ignite — to set on fire; kindle.
• irk — to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
• displease — to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy: His reply displeased the judge.
• irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
• gall — (Pizi) 1840?–94, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux: a major chief in the battle of Little Bighorn.
• 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.
• incense — an aromatic gum or other substance producing a sweet odor when burned, used in religious ceremonies, to enhance a mood, etc.
• whet — to sharpen (a knife, tool, etc.) by grinding or friction.
• offend — to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me.
• kindle — (of animals, especially rabbits) to bear (young); produce (offspring).
• stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
• galvanize — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
• bedevil — If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time.
• perplex — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
• besiege — If you are besieged by people, many people want something from you and continually bother you.
• beleaguer — to trouble persistently; harass
• surround — to enclose on all sides; encompass: She was surrounded by reporters.
• invade — to enter forcefully as an enemy; go into with hostile intent: Germany invaded Poland in 1939.
• overrun — to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage: a time when looting hordes had overrun the province.
• 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.
• move — to pass from one place or position to another.
• sting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
• mortify — to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
• quicken — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
• motivate — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
• wound — the act of winding.
• vex — to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
• stir — to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
• prick — a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
• get — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.