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Sting :: Sting (v. t.) To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands..

Choleric :: Choleric (a.) Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.

Irritative :: Irritative (a.) Serving to excite or irritate; irritating; as, an irritative agent..

Chafe :: Chafe (v. t.) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.

Quarrelsome :: Quarrelsome (a.) Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.

Urticate :: Urticate (v. t. & i.) To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy..

Irritate :: Irritate (a.) Excited; heightened.

Displease :: Displease (v. t.) To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke..

Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To tease; to irritate; to vex.

Stimulation :: Stimulate (v. t.) To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of (a nerve or an irritable muscle), as by electricity..

Edgy :: Edgy (a.) Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper..

Importune :: Importune (a.) To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry..

Provoke :: Provoke (v. t.) To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate..

Fire :: Fire (v. t.) To inflame; to irritate, as the passions; as, to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge..

Irritate :: Irritate (v. t.) To increase the action or violence of; to heighten excitement in; to intensify; to stimulate.

Testy :: Testy (superl.) Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.

Bloodshot :: Bloodshot (a.) Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated..

Acerbate :: Acerbate (v. t.) To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.

Acontia :: Acontia (n. pl.) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated..

Fire :: Fire (v. i.) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.

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