meaning of irritate
1. To render null and void.
2. To increase the action or violence of; to heighten excitement in; to intensify; to stimulate.
3. 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. To produce irritation in; to stimulate; to cause to contract. See Irritation, n. , 2.
5. To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage.
6. Excited; heightened.
7. excite to an abnormal condition, of chafe or inflame; "Aspirin irritates my
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