All buttonholing synonyms

verb buttonholing

• confront — If you are confronted with a problem, task, or difficulty, you have to deal with it.
• annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
• buttonhole — A buttonhole is a hole that you push a button through in order to fasten a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing.
• harass — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
• hound — Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
• plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
• pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
• beleaguer — to trouble persistently; harass
• apprehend — If the police apprehend someone, they catch them and arrest them.
• delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
• confine — To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
• jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
• accost — If someone accosts another person, especially a stranger, they stop them or go up to them and speak to them in a way that seems rude or threatening.
• urge — to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
• sue — to institute a process in law against; bring a civil action against: to sue someone for damages.
• force — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
• worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
• demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
• push — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
• assail — If someone assails you, they criticize you strongly.
• squeeze — to press forcibly together; compress.
• petition — a formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit: a petition for clemency; a petition for the repeal of an unfair law.
• 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.
• welcome — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
• cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
• hail — to pour down on as or like hail: The plane hailed leaflets on the city.
• face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
• dare — If you do not dare to do something, you do not have enough courage to do it, or you do not want to do it because you fear the consequences. If you dare to do something, you do something which requires a lot of courage.
• flag — flagstone (def 1).
• proposition — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
• call — a demand for redeemable bonds or shares to be presented for repayment
• greet — to lament; bewail.
• address — Your address is the number of the house, flat, or apartment and the name of the street and the town where you live or work.
• brace — If you brace yourself for something unpleasant or difficult, you prepare yourself for it.
• challenge — A challenge is something new and difficult which requires great effort and determination.
• salute — Military. to pay respect to or honor by some formal act, as by raising the right hand to the side of the headgear, presenting arms, firing cannon, dipping colors, etc.
• nag — to annoy by persistent faultfinding, complaints, or demands.
• importune — to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
• harry — to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry: He was harried by constant doubts.
• trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
• bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
• 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.
• decelerate — When a vehicle or machine decelerates or when someone in a vehicle decelerates, the speed of the vehicle or machine is reduced.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• retard — to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
• nab — to arrest or capture.
• pinch — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
• inhibit — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
• bust — a raid, search, or arrest by the police
• withhold — to hold back; restrain or check.