All irritate synonyms

verb irritate

• upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
• annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
• sour — having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
• disturb — to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
• aggravate — If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
• inflame — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
• peeve — to render peevish; annoy.
• infuriate — to make furious; enrage.
• vex — to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• incense — an aromatic gum or other substance producing a sweet odor when burned, used in religious ceremonies, to enhance a mood, etc.
• gall — (Pizi) 1840?–94, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux: a major chief in the battle of Little Bighorn.
• rile — to irritate or vex.
• irk — to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
• rankle — (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
• offend — to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me.
• rattle — to give out or cause a rapid succession of short, sharp sounds, as in consequence of agitation and repeated concussions: The windows rattled in their frames.
• provoke — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
• 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.
• sting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
• chafe — If your skin chafes or is chafed by something, it becomes sore as a result of something rubbing against it.
• try — to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.
• 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.
• ruffle — to beat (a drum) in this manner.
• affront — If something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it.
• burn — If there is a fire or a flame somewhere, you say that there is a fire or flame burning there.
• get — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• distemper — Art. a technique of decorative painting in which glue or gum is used as a binder or medium to achieve a mat surface and rapid drying. (formerly) the tempera technique.
• pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
• madden — to anger or infuriate: The delays maddened her.
• roil — to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
• 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.
• harass — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
• abrade — To abrade something means to scrape or wear down its surface by rubbing it.
• rasp — to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument.
• grate — a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
• pain — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
• bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
• fret — to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
• itch — to have or feel a peculiar tingling or uneasy irritation of the skin that causes a desire to scratch the part affected: My nose itches.
• rub — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
• redden — to make or cause to become red.
• swell — to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth.
• sensitize — to render sensitive.
• sharpen — knife: make sharper
• intensify — to make intense or more intense.
• put out — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
• rub the wrong way — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
• exasperate — Irritate intensely; infuriate.