vex
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To annoy, irritate.
Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his grades.
Đồng nghĩa: agitate, irk, irritate, aggravate, annoy, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, antagonize, bother, disgruntle, botherate, bug, get, grate, burn up, bedevil, cheese off, devil, exasperate, frustrate, get up, grotch, hack off, hassle, irk, irritate, jazz, molest, mommick, nark, nerve, pee off, peeve, persecute, pique, piss off, provoke, rile, rile up, roil, storm, test someone's patience, tick off, trouble, try one's patience, vex, wind up, Idioms:, boil someone's piss, chap someone's hide, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get under someone's skin, give someone the shits, grind one's gears, harsh one's mellow, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle someone's feathers, tee off, torque off
- 2.
(transitive)To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
Đồng nghĩa: afflict, grame, torment
- 3.
(archaic, transitive)(transitive, now rare) To trouble aggressively, to harass.
Đồng nghĩa: beset, hassle, badger, bait, bedevil, beleaguer, persecute, bug, devil, beset, chevy, give someone grief, harass, harry, hound, pester, pick at, plague, vex
- 4.
(rare, transitive)To twist, to weave.
- 5.
(intransitive, obsolete)To be irritated; to fret.
Đồng nghĩa: chafe, fume
- 6.
(transitive)To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(Scotland, obsolete)A trouble.
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Nguồn gốc từ
From Middle English vexen, from Old French vexer, from Latin vexāre (disturb, agitate, annoy). Displaced native dreċċan and gremman.