Irritate

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Excited; heightened.

II. Irritate ·vt To render null and void.

III. Irritate ·vt To produce irritation in; to Stimulate; to cause to contract. ·see Irritation, ·noun, 2.

IV. Irritate ·vt To increase the action or violence of; to heighten excitement in; to Intensify; to Stimulate.

V. Irritate ·noun To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to Fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage.

VI. Irritate ·vt 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.

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