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单词 irritate
释义
irritate
verb[T]
uk
/ˈɪr.ɪ.teɪt/us
/ˈɪr.ə.teɪt/

irritateverb[T](MAKE ANGRY)

C1
to make someoneangryorannoyed:
激怒，使恼火
After a while herbehaviourreallybeganto irritate me.过了一会儿，她的行为真让我恼火了。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to annoy someone
  • annoyIt annoys me that you're always late.
  • botherIt bothers me that you don't help with the washing up.
  • irritateAfter a while her behaviour really began to irritate me.
  • peeveWhat peeved her most was that he hadn't even called her.
  • bugHe's been bugging me all morning.
  • aggravateIt really aggravates me the way he never thanks me for what I've done.
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Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to make someone angry
  • angerIt angers me that governments never do anything to eradicate the problem.
  • infuriateIt infuriates me to hear of drug use in any sport.
  • make your blood boilIt still makes my blood boil to think of all the time we wasted on this
  • annoyHe asked her to move more quickly, which annoyed her.
  • irritateI'm the only one who talks to him, and that irritates me.
  • frustrateIt really frustrates me that I can't do things for myself.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Causing feelings of anger and displeasure
  • aggravate
  • aggrieve
  • alienate
  • anger
  • annoy
  • bend
  • get upsomeone'snoseidiom
  • givesomeonethe shitsidiom
  • go too faridiom
  • goat
  • grate
  • joke
  • nark
  • nose
  • rub
  • rubsomeoneup the wrong wayidiom
  • ruffle
  • rufflesomeone'sfeathersidiom
  • setsomeone'steeth on edgeidiom
  • tit
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irritateverb[T](MAKE SORE)

to make apartofyourbodysoreorpainful:
使发炎；使疼痛
At first mycontactlensesirritated myeyes.起初一戴上隐形眼镜，我的眼睛就疼。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Pain & painful
  • -racked
  • agonizing
  • be murder onsomethingidiom
  • brain freeze
  • cluster headache
  • dull
  • dully
  • dysmenorrhea
  • excruciating
  • grief
  • neuralgia
  • pang
  • prick
  • rawness
  • sciatic
  • sharpness
  • sting
  • stitch
  • throb
  • tingle
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(Definition ofirritatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

irritate| American Dictionary

irritate
verb[T]
us
/ˈɪr·ɪˌteɪt/

irritateverb[T](ANNOY)

toannoyor makeangry:
After a while thenoisebeganto irritate him.

irritateverb[T](MAKE SORE)

to make somethingsoreorpainful, or tocauseanuncomfortablephysicalreaction:
At first mycontactlensesirritated myeyes.
(Definition ofirritatefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofirritate

irritate
The wavy margin also prevents the entry of irritating particles of sand, with which the animal can not cope.
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Of course, the historian may find irritating gaps even in this abundance.
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Most times, it is irritating to even start the work.
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Although the quality of the authorship is such as to make their inclusion worthwhile, various references to their original sources were somewhat irritating.
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Photographs have not been bled to the edges nor trimmed to fit the page format, leaving irritating white strips around them.
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There is frequent use of results from later in the book when discussing examples or even in proving theorems, which can be irritating.
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American action was not merely irritating; it was fraught with danger.
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Older readers of the paper were irritated by the profusion of supplements and their bulk, while the paper lost money on them.
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Such methods could be far more rewarding than public and, from the government's point of view, irritating remonstrances.
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Such errors are irritating, but they also raise doubts about the quality of the information on which the argument is based.
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Aside from irritating lapses into scholar-as-hero jargon, the essay raises intriguing questions about gendered power, many of which it unfortunately does not answer.
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From the initial contact they should begin to accumulate information about patients' preferences for food, clothes, what irritates them, what their habits are.
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As a complex nomenclature is irritating, many scholars oppose the changing of names altogether.
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Even the presence of newly wealthy entrepreneurs in the party irritated some party veterans who thought they could not coexist peacefully with the class enemies.
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An interesting, sometimes alarming, sometimes irritating, sometimes frustrating book - just the thing for seminar discussion texts.
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