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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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buzzkill
English
Etymology
buzz +? kill. See buzz (“feeling of energy or excitement”).
Pronunciation
Noun
buzzkill (plural buzzkills)
- (slang) Something that or someone who spoils an otherwise enjoyable event.
- (slang) A person who attends a social event and occupies his or her time with unsociable activities.
Synonyms
- (something or someone who spoils an enjoyable event): dampener, killjoy, wet blanket, (person), party-pooper (person); see also Thesaurus:spoilsport
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