All pester synonyms
pesΒ·ter
P p verb pester
- give the business β an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- jawbone β a bone of either jaw; a maxilla or mandible.
- intrude β to thrust or bring in without invitation, permission, or welcome.
- wear β to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.
- fall on β to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- blitzed β inebriated; drunk
- importune β to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
- girdled β a lightweight undergarment, worn especially by women, often partly or entirely of elastic or boned, for supporting and giving a slimmer appearance to the abdomen, hips, and buttocks.
- get into the act β To participate in an activity, especially a successful or attractive one.
- dissing β to show disrespect for; affront.
- bug β A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
- molest β to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
- boning β Anatomy, Zoology. one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate. the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen-rich organic matrix impregnated with calcium, phosphate, and other minerals.
- dog β a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- coax β If you coax someone into doing something, you gently try to persuade them to do it.
- irritate β to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- lead on β to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
- disturb β to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
- dunned β to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.
- hunt down β to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
- harry β to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry: He was harried by constant doubts.
- intermeddling β Present participle of intermeddle.
- afflict β If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer.
- hacked β to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- make waves β a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
- get one's goat β any of numerous agile, hollow-horned ruminants of the genus Capra, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the sheep, found native in rocky and mountainous regions of the Old World, and widely distributed in domesticated varieties.
- worry β to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- blitzing β Military. an overwhelming all-out attack, especially a swift ground attack using armored units and air support. an intensive aerial bombing.
- bummed β depressed, upset, distressed, annoyed, etc.
- noodge β to annoy with persistent complaints, criticisms, or pleas; nag: He was always nudging his son to move to a better neighborhood.
- gnaw β to bite or chew on, especially persistently.
- deviling β Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- heat up β the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- henpeck β to browbeat, bully, or intimidate (one's husband, boyfriend, etc.).
- gall β (Pizi) 1840?β94, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux: a major chief in the battle of Little Bighorn.
- nettle β any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs. Compare nettle family.
- intercalate β to interpolate; interpose.
- entreat β Ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something.
- kid around β behave jokingly or playfully
- get the better of β of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- girdling β a lightweight undergarment, worn especially by women, often partly or entirely of elastic or boned, for supporting and giving a slimmer appearance to the abdomen, hips, and buttocks.
- hit up β to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- forayed β a quick, sudden attack: The defenders made a foray outside the walls.
- disses β to show disrespect for; affront.
- dunning β to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.
- jive β swing music or early jazz.
adj pester
- filler β an aluminum coin of Hungary, the 100th part of a forint.
- crawler β A crawler is a computer program that visits websites and collects information when you do an Internet search.
- infest β to live in or overrun to an unwanted degree or in a troublesome manner, especially as predatory animals or vermin do: Sharks infested the coastline.