irritate
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin irritatus, past participle of irritare (“to excite, irritate, incite, stimulate”)
Pronunciation
Verb
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- (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.
- Template:RQ:BLwnds TLdgr
- Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
- Template:RQ:BLwnds TLdgr
- (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
- (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
- (transitive, obsolete, Scotland, law) To render null and void.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Archbishop Bramhall to this entry?)
Synonyms
Antonyms
Related terms
Translations
to cause or induce displeasure or irritation
See also
Italian
Adjective
irritate f pl
Verb
irritate
- second-person plural present of irritare
- second-person plural imperative of irritare
- feminine plural past participle of irritare
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) irrītāte
References
- “irritate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- irritate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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