irritate
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin irritatus, past participle of irritare (“to excite, irritate, incite, stimulate”)
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VerbEdit
irritate (third-person singular simple present irritates, present participle irritating, simple past and past participle irritated)
- (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
- 1915, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger, chapter I:
- Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
- 1915, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger, chapter I:
- (transitive) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
- (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
- (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
- (obsolete) To render null and void.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Archbishop Bramhall to this entry?)
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TranslationsEdit
to cause or induce displeasure or irritation
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ItalianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
irritate f pl
VerbEdit
irritate
- second-person plural present of irritare
- second-person plural imperative of irritare
- feminine plural past participle of irritare
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LatinEdit
VerbEdit
irrītāte
ReferencesEdit
- irritate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “irritate” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)