All annoy synonyms

verb annoy

• gall — (Pizi) 1840?–94, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux: a major chief in the battle of Little Bighorn.
• trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
• bore — If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting.
• worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
• fire up — start ignition of
• disturb — to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
• turn off — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• perturb — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
• peeve — to render peevish; annoy.
• 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.
• displease — to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy: His reply displeased the judge.
• vex — to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
• rile — to irritate or vex.
• irk — to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
• agitate — If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• beleaguer — to trouble persistently; harass
• provoke — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
• 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.
• gnaw — to bite or chew on, especially persistently.
• nudge — to annoy with persistent complaints, criticisms, or pleas; nag: He was always nudging his son to move to a better neighborhood.
• nag — to annoy by persistent faultfinding, complaints, or demands.
• 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.
• abrade — To abrade something means to scrape or wear down its surface by rubbing it.
• bedevil — If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time.
• ruffle — to beat (a drum) in this manner.
• get — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• 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.
• break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
• plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
• bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
• chafe — If your skin chafes or is chafed by something, it becomes sore as a result of something rubbing against it.
• miff — petulant displeasure; ill humor.
• tease — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
• ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
• nettle — any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs. Compare nettle family.
• harass — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
• harry — to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry: He was harried by constant doubts.
• egg on — to incite or urge; encourage (usually followed by on).
• henpeck — to browbeat, bully, or intimidate (one's husband, boyfriend, etc.).
• ask for it — to put a question to; inquire of: I asked him but he didn't answer.
• burn up — If something burns up or if fire burns it up, it is completely destroyed by fire or strong heat.
• heat up — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
• make waves — a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
• tick off — a slight, sharp, recurring click, tap, or beat, as of a clock.
• work on — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
• irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
• infuriate — to make furious; enrage.
• aggravate — If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.