irritate
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English
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]FromLatinirrītātus,past participle ofirrītō(“excite, irritate, incite, stimulate”).
Verb
[edit]irritate(third-person singular simple presentirritates,present participleirritating,simple past and past participleirritated)
- (transitive)Toprovokeimpatience,anger,ordispleasurein.
- 1814,Signor Vestris,La Didone Abbandonata, a Serious Opera, in Two Acts. Altered fromMetastasio,by Signor Vestris. As Represented at the King’s Theatre, in the Hay-Market.,London:[…]J. Gillet,[…],page15:
- If thouirritatestmy lord, there will come to war against thee all the Getulians, Numidians, and Garamantes, Afric contains.
- 1896,Ernest Rénan,translated by Eleanor Grant Vickery,Caliban: A Philosophical Drama Continuing “The Tempest”ofWilliam Shakespeare(Publications of The Shakespeare Society of New York;No. 9), New York, N.Y.: The Shakespeare Press; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd.,page19:
- Thou scandalizest me andirritatestmy nature as much as it possibly can beirritated.
- 1913,Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes,chapter I, inThe Lodger,London:Methuen,→OCLC;republished inNovels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened,New York, N.Y.:Longmans, Green and Co.,[…],[1933],→OCLC,page10:
- 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. Itirritatedhim shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
- (intransitive)Tocauseorinducedispleasureorirritation.
- (transitive)To inducepainin (all or part of a body or organism).
Synonyms
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[edit]to cause or induce displeasure or irritation
See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]FromLatinirritātus,past participle ofirritō(“Iinvalidate,annul”),fromirritus(“invalid”),negation ofratus(“valid,established,fixed”).
Verb
[edit]irritate(third-person singular simple presentirritates,present participleirritating,simple past and past participleirritated)
- (transitive,obsolete,Scots law)To rendernull and void.
- c. 1634-1661John Bramhall,Protestants' Ordination Defended
- Are human laws presently superfluous, so often as they do notirritateor abrogate Divine laws?
- Synonyms:annul,nullify,invalidate
- c. 1634-1661John Bramhall,Protestants' Ordination Defended
Italian
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]irritate
Participle
[edit]irritatefpl
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]irritate
Anagrams
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin)IPA(key):/ir.riːˈtaː.te/,[ɪrːiːˈt̪äːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA(key):/ir.riˈta.te/,[irːiˈt̪äːt̪e]
Verb
[edit]irrītāte
References
[edit]- “irritate”,inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary,Oxford: Clarendon Press
- irritateinGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français,Hachette.
Spanish
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[edit]irritate
- second-personsingularvoseoimperativeofirritarcombined withte
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