All needle synonyms
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N n verb needle
- nettle β any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs. Compare nettle family.
- irritate β to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- annoy β If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
- aggravate β If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
- enrage β Make very angry.
- pester β to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- provoke β to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
- rile β to irritate or vex.
- hassle β a disorderly dispute.
- 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.
- bedevil β If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time.
- irk β to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
- gnaw β to bite or chew on, especially persistently.
- tease β to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
- 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.
- bait β Bait is food which you put on a hook or in a trap in order to catch fish or animals.
- goad β a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- hector β Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
- nag β to annoy by persistent faultfinding, complaints, or demands.
- prod β to poke or jab with or as if with something pointed: I prodded him with my elbow.
- quiz β an informal test or examination of a student or class.
- taunt β to reproach in a sarcastic, insulting, or jeering manner; mock.
- tweak β to pinch and pull with a jerk and twist: to tweak someone's ear; to tweak someone's nose.
- bother β 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.
- examine β Inspect (someone or something) in detail to determine their nature or condition; investigate thoroughly.
- harass β to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- plague β French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
- prick β a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
- question β a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- ride β to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
- ruffle β to beat (a drum) in this manner.
- spur β a batch of newly made rag-paper sheets.
- sting β to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
- worry β to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
noun needle
- pointer β a person or thing that points.
- hand β Learned [lur-nid] /ΛlΙr nΙͺd/ (Show IPA), 1872β1961, U.S. jurist.
- indicator β a person or thing that indicates.
- spine β the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- spike β an ear, as of wheat or other grain.
- prickle β a sharp point.
- barb β A barb is a sharp curved point near the end of an arrow or fish-hook which makes it difficult to pull out.
- sticker β a person or thing that sticks.
- pine needle β the needlelike leaf of a pine tree.
adjective needle
- too close to call β If something such as a competition or an election is too close to call, it is not possible to predict who will win because it seems likely to be won by only a very small margin.
- deadlocked β If a dispute or series of negotiations is deadlocked, no agreement can be reached because neither side will give in at all. You can also say that the people involved are deadlocked.