All deviled synonyms

verb deviled

• 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.
• aggravate — If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
• ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
• nudge — to annoy with persistent complaints, criticisms, or pleas; nag: He was always nudging his son to move to a better neighborhood.
• pick on — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
• 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.
• taunt — to reproach in a sarcastic, insulting, or jeering manner; mock.
• 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.
• harass — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
• mock — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
• 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.
• nag — to annoy by persistent faultfinding, complaints, or demands.
• torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
• hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• smite — to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon: She smote him on the back with her umbrella.
• mistreat — to treat badly or abusively.
• afflict — If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer.
• molest — to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
• raid — a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
• tease — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
• intimidate — to make timid; fill with fear.
• pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
• torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
• persecute — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
• heckle — to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
• hassle — a disorderly dispute.
• 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.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• strain — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
• vex — to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
• foray — a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder: Vikings made a foray on the port.
• worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
• tire — Archaic. to dress (the head or hair), especially with a headdress.
• beleaguer — to trouble persistently; harass
• irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
• eat — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
• attack — To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence.
• irk — to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
• annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
• pain — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
• perplex — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
• bullyrag — to bully, esp by means of cruel practical jokes
• disturb — to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
• despoil — To despoil a place means to make it less attractive, valuable, or important by taking things away from it or by destroying it.
• gnaw — to bite or chew on, especially persistently.
• plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
• macerate — to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid.
• trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
• weary — physically or mentally exhausted by hard work, exertion, strain, etc.; fatigued; tired: weary eyes; a weary brain.