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All mess with synonyms

mess with
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verb mess with

  • nose around β€” pry, snoop
  • bedevil β€” If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time.
  • annoy β€” If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
  • nag β€” to annoy by persistent faultfinding, complaints, or demands.
  • tease β€” to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
  • hector β€” Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
  • irk β€” to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
  • torment β€” to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
  • hassle β€” a disorderly dispute.
  • hound β€” 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).
  • badger β€” 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.
  • peep β€” to utter the short, shrill little cry of a young bird, a mouse, etc.; cheep; squeak.
  • intrude β€” to thrust or bring in without invitation, permission, or welcome.
  • mess β€” a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
  • dabble β€” If you dabble in something, you take part in it but not very seriously.
  • disturb β€” to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
  • nudge β€” to annoy with persistent complaints, criticisms, or pleas; nag: He was always nudging his son to move to a better neighborhood.
  • beleaguer β€” to trouble persistently; harass
  • ride β€” to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
  • tantalize β€” to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
  • dog β€” a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
  • insist β€” to be emphatic, firm, or resolute on some matter of desire, demand, intention, etc.: He insists on checking every shipment.
  • remind β€” to cause (a person) to remember; cause (a person) to think (of someone or something): Remind me to phone him tomorrow. That woman reminds me of my mother.
  • plague β€” French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
  • importune β€” to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
  • harry β€” to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry: He was harried by constant doubts.
  • provoke β€” to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
  • bug β€” A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
  • worry β€” to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
  • fret β€” to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
  • stare β€” to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
  • spy β€” a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
  • poke β€” to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
  • peek β€” to look or glance quickly or furtively, especially through a small opening or from a concealed location; peep; peer.
  • pry β€” to inquire impertinently or unnecessarily into something: to pry into the personal affairs of others.
  • interfere β€” to come into opposition, as one thing with another, especially with the effect of hampering action or procedure (often followed by with): Constant distractions interfere with work.
  • meddle β€” to involve oneself in a matter without right or invitation; interfere officiously and unwantedly: Stop meddling in my personal life!
  • nose β€” the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
  • peer β€” a person of the same legal status: a jury of one's peers.
  • busybody β€” If you refer to someone as a busybody, you are criticizing the way they interfere in other people's affairs.
  • snook β€” any basslike fish of the genus Centropomus, especially C. undecimalis, inhabiting waters off Florida and the West Indies and south to Brazil, valued as food and game.
  • repair β€” to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
  • play β€” a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • toy β€” an object, often a small representation of something familiar, as an animal or person, for children or others to play with; plaything.
  • monkey β€” any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
  • doodle β€” a small pile of hay; haystack.
  • putter β€” to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.
  • niggle β€” to criticize, especially constantly or repeatedly, in a peevish or petty way; carp: to niggle about the fine points of interpretation; preferring to niggle rather than take steps to correct a situation.
  • puddle β€” a small pool of water, as of rainwater on the ground.
  • fix β€” to repair; mend.
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