Irritate

['ɪrɪteɪt] or ['ɪrɪtet]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame; 'Aspirin irritates my stomach'.

(verb.) excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus; 'irritate the glands of a leaf'.

校對:谢尔曼--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To render null and void.

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

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To produce irritation in; to stimulate; to cause to contract. See Irritation, n., 2.

(n.) To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage.

(a.) Excited; heightened.

錄入:里基

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Provoke, nettle, chafe, incense, exasperate, enrage, anger, fret, offend, vex, annoy, tease, gall.[2]. (Med.) Inflame (by friction).

錄入:诺兰

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Tease, provoke, annoy, exasperate, worry, incense

ANT:Soothe, caress, pacify, tame, mollify

克林顿編輯

解釋/意思:

v.t. to make angry: to provoke: to excite heat and redness in: (Scots law) to render null and void.—n. Irritabil′ity the quality of being easily irritated: the peculiar susceptibility to stimuli possessed by the living tissues.—adj. Irr′itable that may be irritated: easily provoked: (med.) susceptible of excitement or irritation.—n. Irr′itableness.—adv. Irr′itably.—n. Irr′itancy the state of being irritant: a becoming null and void.—adj. Irr′itant irritating.—n. that which causes irritation.—n. Irritā′tion act of irritating or exciting: excitement: (med.) the term applied to any morbid excitement of the vital actions not amounting to inflammation often but not always leading to that condition.—adjs. Irr′itātive Irr′itātory tending to irritate or excite: accompanied with or caused by irritation.

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