All bite one's nails synonyms

verb bite one's nails

• annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
• depress — If someone or something depresses you, they make you feel sad and disappointed.
• disturb — to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
• unsettle — to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
• perturb — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
• 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.
• upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
• irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
• try — to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.
• plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
• trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
• fret — to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• afflict — If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer.
• beleaguer — to trouble persistently; harass
• agonize — If you agonize over something, you feel very anxious about it and spend a long time thinking about it.
• importune — to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
• beset — If someone or something is beset by problems or fears, they have many problems or fears which affect them severely.
• torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
• brood — A brood is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother.
• pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
• disquiet — lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness.
• goad — a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
• vex — to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
• hector — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
• attack — To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence.
• tantalize — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
• persecute — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
• test — Zoology. the hard, protective shell or covering of certain invertebrates, as echinoderms or tunicates.
• bedevil — If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time.
• 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.
• torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
• writhe — to twist the body about, or squirm, as in pain, violent effort, etc.
• wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
• stew — to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.
• aggrieve — to grieve; distress; afflict
• wince — to draw back or tense the body, as from pain or from a blow; start; flinch.
• 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.
• tease — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
• tear — the act of tearing.
• ail — If something ails a group or area of activity, it is a problem or source of trouble for that group or for people involved in that activity.
• harass — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
• despair — Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
• 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.
• oppress — to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
• dun — to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.
• go for — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• take on — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.