irritate.
To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.
Meaning & usage
To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.
To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin irrītātus, perfect passive participle of irrītō (“excite, irritate, incite, stimulate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
To render null and void.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin irritātus, perfect passive participle of irritō (“to invalidate, render void, annul”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from irritus (“invalid”), the equivalent of in- + ratus (“valid, established, fixed”).
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