meaning of irritate2

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 ">stomach"


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irritate | irritated | irritating | irritation | irritative | irritatory |

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