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Irritated

adjective

1.

Aroused to impatience or anger. Synonyms: annoyed, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung. "Feeling nettled from the constant teasing" , "Peeved about being left out" , "Felt really pissed at her snootiness" , "Riled no end by his lies" , "Roiled by the delay"

Irritate

verb

(past & past part. irritated; pres. part. irritating)

1.

Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations. Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex. "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"

2.

Excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame.

3.

Excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus.

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"Irritated" Quotes from Famous Books

... already irritated, proceeded to make a search for the priests and threatened to burn the convent if the priests should happen to be found there. One priest was accused of inciting the inhabitants to fire on the troops, and when he denied it the Burgomaster was blamed by the ...

— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... him of all his promises of affection, all his pledges of passion, she clung to him, and avowed by all that she considered holy, himself, that she would not let him go. In brief, she raised what 'fast men' style a scene, and a scene was just one of those things which irritated the merchant's son ...

— The Secrets Of The Great City • Edward Winslow Martin

... feared, however. The captain's hasty move brought down on his head Rob's wrath, though the young leader could not find it in his heart to be really angry with the old man who had been irritated past endurance by the ...

— The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol • Howard Payson

... nobody to talk to, nobody to help—the forty-eight hours of solitude had already convinced Mr. Atkins that the sooner a helper was provided the better. At times he even wished the disrespectful Payne back again, wished that he had soothed instead of irritated the departed one. Then he remembered certain fragments of their last conversation and wished the stove-lifter had ...

— The Woman-Haters • Joseph C. Lincoln

... obliged to hesitate, for he knew of no explanation that would sound well. Moreover, he was not used to being catechized in this fashion, with the eyes of a crowd of people on him, so he was irritated, ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

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