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irritate
English
Etymology
From Latin irr?t?tus, past participle of irr?t? (“excite, irritate, incite, stimulate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????te?t/
Verb
irritate (third-person singular simple present irritates, present participle irritating, simple past and past participle irritated)
- (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.
- Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
- (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
- (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
- (transitive, obsolete, Scotland, law) To render null and void.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Archbishop Bramhall to this entry?)
Synonyms
- provoke
- rile
Antonyms
- placate
- please
- soothe
Related terms
Translations
See also
- exasperate
- peeve
- disturb
Italian
Adjective
irritate
- feminine plural of irritato
Verb
irritate
- second-person plural present of irritare
- second-person plural imperative of irritare
- feminine plural past participle of irritare
Anagrams
- arteriti, atterrii, irretita, ritirate, tiritera, triterai
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ir.ri??ta?.te/, [?r?i??t?ä?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ir.ri?ta.te/, [ir?i?t???t??]
Verb
irr?t?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of irr?t?
References
- irritate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- irritate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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bother
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Scots bauther, bather (“to bother”). Origin unknown. Perhaps related to Scots pother (“to make a stir or commotion, bustle”), also of unknown origin. Compare English pother (“to poke, prod”), variant of potter (“to poke”). More at potter. Perhaps related to Irish bodhaire (“noise”), Irish bodhraim (“to deafen, annoy”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: b??-th?r, IPA(key): /?b?ð??/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): [?b?ð?(?)]
- (UK) IPA(key): [?b?ð?(?)]
- Rhymes: -?ð?(r)
- (US) IPA(key): [?b?ð?]
Verb
bother (third-person singular simple present bothers, present participle bothering, simple past and past participle bothered)
- (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate.
- (intransitive) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
- (intransitive) To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive or the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
- (annoy): annoy, disturb, irritate, put out, vex; see also Thesaurus:annoy
- (make or take trouble): care, mind; see also Thesaurus:care
Derived terms
- bebother
Translations
References
Noun
bother (countable and uncountable, plural bothers)
- Fuss, ado.
- There was a bit of bother at the hairdresser's when they couldn't find my appointment in the book.
- Trouble, inconvenience.
- Yes, I can do that for you - it's no bother.
Synonyms
- (fuss, ado): See also Thesaurus:commotion
- (trouble, inconvenience): See also Thesaurus:nuisance
Derived terms
- bothersome
- spot of bother
Translations
Interjection
bother!
- A mild expression of annoyance.
- 1926, A A Milne, Winnie the Pooh, Methuen & Co., Ltd., Chapter 2 ...in which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place:
- "Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back."
- "Oh, bother!" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on."
- "I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help and bother!"
- 1926, A A Milne, Winnie the Pooh, Methuen & Co., Ltd., Chapter 2 ...in which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place:
Synonyms
- botheration, blast, dang (US), darn, drat, phooey, fiddlesticks
Translations
Related terms
- be bothered
- bothered
- bothersome
Anagrams
- boreth
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