irritate

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈɪɹ.ɪˌteɪt/

Verb

transitive intransitive Scotland obsolete

(transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in. / (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation. / (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).

Japanese Meaning

（他動詞）イライラさせる、苛立たせる、不快にさせる / （他動詞）痛みを感じさせる

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The constant buzzing of the fluorescent light began to irritate the students during the long lecture.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

長い講義の間、蛍光灯の絶え間ないブーンという音が学生たちを苛立たせ始めた。

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Sense（1）

(transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.

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. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

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Sense（2）

(intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.

Sense（3）

(transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).

Sense（4）

(transitive, obsolete, Scotland, law) To render null and void.

Are human laws presently superfluous, so often as they do not irritate or abrogate Divine laws ?

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irritates

（ present singular third-person ）

irritating

（ participle present ）

irritated

（ participle past ）

irritated

（ past ）

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