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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To annoy; to inflame; to render null and void.

2. (v. t.) To increase the action or violence of; to heighten excitement in; to intensify; to stimulate.

3. (v. t.) To excite anger or displeasure in; to provoke; to tease; to exasperate; to annoy; to vex; as, the insolence of a tyrant irritates his subjects.

4. (v. t.) To produce irritation in; to stimulate; to cause to contract. See Irritation, n., 2.

5. (n.) To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage.

6. (a.) Excited; heightened.

Greek

3893. parapikraino -- to embitter, provoke
... Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: parapikraino Phonetic Spelling: (par-ap-ik-
rah'-ee-no) Short Definition: I embitter, provoke, irritate Definition: I ...
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3947. paroxuno -- to sharpen, fig. to stimulate, to provoke
... to stimulate, to provoke. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: paroxuno Phonetic
Spelling: (par-ox-oo'-no) Short Definition: I provoke, irritate Definition: I ...
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3710. orgizo -- to make angry
... to make angry. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: orgizo Phonetic Spelling:
(or-gid'-zo) Short Definition: I irritate, provoke, am angry Definition: I ...
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2042. erethizo -- to stir up
... erethizo Phonetic Spelling: (er-eth-id'-zo) Short Definition: I stir up, provoke
Definition: I stir up, arouse to anger, provoke, irritate, incite. ...
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4292. prokaleo -- to call forth, challenge
... provoke. Middle voice from pro and kaleo; to call forth to oneself (challenge),
ie (by implication) to irritate -- provoke. see GREEK pro. see GREEK kaleo. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7481. raam -- to thunder
... Word Origin denominative verb from raam Definition to thunder NASB Word Usage irritate
(1), roar (3), thunder (2), thundered (3), thunders (3), troubled (1). ...
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4834. marats -- to be sick
... A primitive root; properly, to press, ie (figuratively) to be pungent or vehement;
to irritate -- embolden, be forcible, grievous, sore. 4833, 4834. ...
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Library

The Idumeans Being Sent for by the Zealots, came Immediately to ...
... But now, that he might particularly irritate the leaders of the zealots, he calumniated
Ananus, that he was about a piece of barbarity, and did in a special ...
/.../chapter 4 the idumeans being.htm

The Ten Commandments
... We must fear and love God, so that we will neither look down on our parents or
superiors nor irritate them, but will honor them, serve them, obey them, love ...
/.../luther/the small catechism of martin luther/i the ten commandments.htm

The Burning of Athens.
... which they had made into the Phocaean territory, they had been defeated by means
of stratagems in a manner which tended greatly to vex and irritate them. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/xerxes/chapter x the burning of.htm

The Next Season
... Is it not a shame and a reproach that you should be outdone by them? 6. Avoid
every thing which is calculated to irritate your feelings. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/flavel/on keeping the heart/viii the next season.htm

First Degree of Prayer --Meditation and Meditative Reading --The ...
... This is a short and efficacious way of fighting with distractions; because those
who endeavour directly to oppose them, irritate and increase them; but by ...
/.../a short method of prayer and spiritual torrents/chapter ii first degree of.htm

Care of the Speaker's Throat
... throat. It must be obvious, therefore, that the constant inhaling of smoke
must even more directly irritate the mucous membrane. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/kleiser/talks on talking/care of the speakers throat.htm

Of Perfect Conversion, which is an Effect of this Method of Prayer ...
... When the passions rise, a look towards God, who is present within us, easily deadens
them. Any other resistance would irritate rather than appease them. ...
/.../chapter ix of perfect conversion.htm

The Method of Prayer
... in recalling our dissipated senses, as the most easy method of overcoming distractions;
for a direct contest and opposition only serves to irritate and augment ...
/.../guyon/a short and easy method of prayer/chapter ii the method of.htm

Instructions to Converts.
... a peculiar service, that it seems something was indispensable to fit him for it,
and make him such a saint, that future opposition would not irritate him, nor ...
/.../lectures on revivals of religion/lecture xix instructions to converts.htm

D. The Fourth Commandment
... A. We must fear and love God, so that we will neither look down on our parents or
superiors nor irritate them, but will honor them, serve them, obey them, love ...
/.../luther/luthers little instruction book/d the fourth commandment.htm

Thesaurus

Irritate (2 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is
irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage. ...
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Vex (20 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to irritate; to plague;
to torment; to harass; to afflict; to trouble; to tease. ...
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Nettle (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To fret or sting; also a plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute
sharp hairs; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of ...
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Grate (6 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented;
as, to grate a nutmeg. 7. (vt) To fret; to irritate; to offend. ...
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Irritable (2 Occurrences)

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Irritated (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Irritate. Multi-Version Concordance
Irritated (2 Occurrences). Proverbs 19:3 The folly of ...
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Inflame (3 Occurrences)
... as, to inflame desire. 3. (vt) To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate;
to irritate; to incense; to enrage. 4. (vt) To put in ...
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Importune (1 Occurrence)
... request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent demands, unreasonable or
troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry ...
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Fret (9 Occurrences)
... 5. (vt) To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret
the surface of water. 6. (vt) To tease; to irritate; to vex. ...
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Fire (602 Occurrences)
... fire pottery. 12. (vt) To inflame; to irritate, as the passions; as, to
fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge. 13. (vt) To ...
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Bible Concordance

Irritate (2 Occurrences)

Ephesians 6:4 And you, fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up tenderly with true Christian training and advice.
(WEY)

1 Samuel 1:6 Her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.
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Subtopics

Irritate

Related Terms

Vex (20 Occurrences)

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