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All chivvy synonyms

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verb chivvy

  • annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
  • 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).
  • bait — Bait is food which you put on a hook or in a trap in order to catch fish or animals.
  • tease — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
  • pursue — to strive to gain; seek to attain or accomplish (an end, object, purpose, etc.).
  • 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.
  • hunt — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
  • harass — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
  • torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
  • chase — If you chase someone, or chase after them, you run after them or follow them quickly in order to catch or reach them.
  • 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.
  • urge — to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
  • pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
  • hassle — a disorderly dispute.
  • pressure — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
  • push — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
  • upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
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