irritate

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin irritatus, past participle of irritare (“to excite, irritate, incite, stimulate”)

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪɹɪteɪt/

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VerbEdit

irritate (third-person singular simple present irritates, present participle irritating, simple past and past participle irritated)

1. (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., 55 Fifth Avenue, [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0056:

     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.

2. (transitive) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
3. (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
4. (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
5. (obsolete) To render null and void.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Archbishop Bramhall to this entry?)

SynonymsEdit

• provoke
• rile

AntonymsEdit

• placate
• please
• soothe

Related termsEdit

• irritation
• irritative
• irritatory

TranslationsEdit

to cause or induce displeasure or irritation

• Armenian: նյարդայնացնել (hy) (nyardaynacʿnel), զայրացնել (hy) (zayracʿnel), ջղայնացնել (hy) (ǰłaynacʿnel)
• Bengali: জ্বালাতন করা (jbalatôn kôra)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 激怒 (zh) (jīnù), 刺激 (zh) (cìjī)

• Czech: dráždit (cs)
• Dutch: irriteren (nl)
• Esperanto: agaci (eo), malamuzi
• Finnish: ärsyttää (fi), vituttaa (fi), nyppiä (fi), tympiä, harmittaa (fi), vaivata (fi)
• French: agacer (displeasure)
• Georgian: გაღიზიანება (gaɣizianeba), გაბრაზება (gabrazeba)
• German: reizen (de)
• Greek: εκνευρίζω (el) (eknevrízo), τσαντίζω (el) (tsantízo), θυμώνω (el) (thymóno)

• Ido: iracigar (io)
• Italian: irritare (it)
• Lithuanian: érzinti (lt), dìrginti
• Maori: whakakūrakuraku, whakahārangirangi, mukākā, whakatōwenewene
• Norwegian: irritere (no), irritere (no)
• Polish: drażnić (pl), rozdrażniać
• Portuguese: irritar (pt)
• Romanian: irita (ro), enerva (ro), agasa (ro), sâcâi (ro)
• Russian: раздража́ть (ru) (razdražátʹ)
• Swedish: irritera (sv)
• Tagalog: alibadbaran
• Turkish: kızdırmak (tr), öfkelendirmek (tr), sinirlendirmek (tr), sinir etmek, sinirini bozmak, gıcık etmek (tr), tahriş etmek (tr), kaşındırmak (tr)

See alsoEdit

• exasperate
• peeve
• disturb

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ItalianEdit

AdjectiveEdit

irritate f pl

1. feminine plural of irritato

VerbEdit

irritate

1. second-person plural present of irritare
2. second-person plural imperative of irritare
3. feminine plural past participle of irritare

AnagramsEdit

• arteriti
• atterrii
• irretita
• ritirate
• tiritera
• triterai

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LatinEdit

VerbEdit

irrītāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of irrītō

ReferencesEdit

• irritate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• irritate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette