Palabras en English para 'causing inconvenience'
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adj
- causing inconvenience
- difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
- socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner
- lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
- hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
- not elegant or graceful in expression
- Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments.
- Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.
- Perverse; adverse; difficult to handle.
- Lacking social skills, or uncomfortable with social interaction.
noun
noun
verb
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- (imperative, euphemistic) Damn; curse.
- To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
- (intransitive, catenative) To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something).
- (intransitive or reflexive) To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.
- (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
- make nervous or agitated
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- make confused or perplexed or puzzled
- intrude or enter uninvited
verb
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- administer an anesthetic drug to
- thrust or extend out
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- be sexually active
- deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- put out, as of a candle or a light
- put out considerable effort
- retire
- (baseball and cricket) To cause a player on offense to be out.
- (boxing and medicine) Synonym of knock out: to render unconscious.
- To extinguish (fire).
- To expel.
- To cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose, inconvenience, or disturb.
- (intransitive, originally US slang) To consent to having sex.
- To turn off (light).
- To broadcast, to publish.
- To remove from office.
- (intransitive) To go out, to head out, especially (sailing) to set sail.
- (sports) To knock out: to eliminate from a competition.
- (transitive) To place outside, to remove, particularly
- To dislocate (a joint).
- (transitive) To blind (eyes).
- To produce, to emit.
adj
noun
verb
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- move deeply
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
noun
- an effort that is inconvenient
- a source of difficulty
- an unwanted pregnancy
- an event causing distress or pain
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an angry disturbance
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A malfunction.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
verb
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- decorate with an interlaced design
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
noun
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
adj
noun
- playful vexation
- the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb
- the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
- The act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously, especially by ridicule; provoking someone with persistent annoyances; making fun of, making light of someone.
- The act of removing tangles from one's hair with a comb.
verb
adj
- causing irritation or annoyance
- (law, of an action) Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause.
- Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.
- (law, of a party or entity) In the habit of starting vexatious litigation and therefore liable to have restraints placed on one's ability to access the courts.
noun
- A cause of annoyance.
- A bubble, as on a painted surface.
- (medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
- (uncountable) A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.
- A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease, or infection.
- A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
- A swelling on a plant.
- (roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
- (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
- a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint)
- (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin
verb
noun
- an annoyance
- a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- a swarm of insects that attack plants
- any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
- (figurative) A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates.
- A widespread affliction, calamity, or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
- (ornithology) A group of common grackles.
- (pathology) An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
verb
verb
noun
- (transgender slang) Deliberate misspelling of girlcock and girldick.
- On a smaller scale, the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.
- (figuratively, by extension) Any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.
- (road transport) A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.
- a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience.
- A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
- (law) Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.
- (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive
- something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
noun
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)
- an onerous or difficult concern
- The state or condition of being encumbered.
- Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.
- Alternative spelling of incumbrance (“in law: interest attached to a title; dependent”).
verb
noun
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot
- an unforeseen obstacle
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- a period of time spent in military service
- (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
- (military, slang) A period of time spent in the military.
- A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
- Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
- (mining) A hole cut into the wall of a mine on which timbers are rested.
- A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
- A sudden pull.
- A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.
verb
- jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- to hook or entangle
- travel by getting free rides from motorists
- connect to a vehicle:
- (intransitive) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
- (transitive) To pull with a jerk.
- (intransitive, UK) To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
- (intransitive) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
- (informal, transitive) Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
- (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
- (transitive) To attach, tie or fasten.
noun
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)
- an onerous or difficult concern
- Alternative form of encumbrance (“that which encumbers”).
- (property law) An interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.
- (law) One who is dependent on another.
noun
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
- (American football) blocking a player's path with your body
- the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding
- a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
- (US, law) In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
- (chess) The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
- (physics) An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
- A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
- (sports) The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
- (linguistics) A negative or inappropriate language transfer.
- The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
verb
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
- Aggravation; bother.
- (chiefly UK, Australia) Aggressive behaviour; loud, intimidating behaviour that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent.
- (gaming) Hostile attention from an enemy.
- (gaming) A measure of a player's level of belligerence.
- (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression
adj
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Angry.
- (TCGs) Of a player, favoring such decks.
- (British, US, slang) Hardcore, aggressive.
- (colloquial) Aggressive; inclined to attack (including, in video games, without having first been attacked).
- (TCGs) Of a deck, designed for aggressive play that seeks to defeat the opponent in the early stages of the game.
verb
verb
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading
- feel extreme irritation or anger
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- cause friction
- warm by rubbing, as with the hands
- (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.
- (intransitive, figurative) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
- (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
- (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.
- (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
- (transitive, figurative) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
noun
verb
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- coat or stuff with a spicy paste
- (intransitive) To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
- To ghostwrite; to author while working as a ‘devil’.
- To shred fabric into its fibres for recycling, as in the production of mungo or shoddy.
- To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
- To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
- To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
- To annoy or bother.
- To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served.
noun
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- a word used in exclamations of confusion
- an evil supernatural being
- a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man)
- (cycling, slang) An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
- A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
- (folklore) A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.
- A dust devil.
- (cooking) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
- (theology) An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.
- (nautical) Ellipsis of devil seam (“the seam between garboard strake and the keel, on wooden boats”).
- A Tasmanian devil.
- A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.
- A printer's assistant.
- (euphemistic, with an article, as an intensifier) Hell.
- The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
- A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc., as used in the production of mungo or shoddy.
- (dialectal, in compounds) A barren, unproductive and unused area.
- (India) A poltergeist that haunts printing works.
- A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.
name
verb
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- reach or gain access to
- influence by corruption
- To persuade by intimidation; to tamper with; to corrupt.
- To manage to gain access to.
- To begin working on or dealing with.
- (slang, US) To contact someone.
- To mean, signify, imply.
- (slang, UK) To tease (someone).
- To understand or ascertain by investigation.
- To attack verbally or physically; to annoy, bother.
verb
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- arrive at the point of
- reach a goal
- (transitive) To reach or arrive at (a physical or abstract destination, or state of doing a certain activity).
- (transitive) To attack, intimidate or kill; to corrupt or bribe.
- (of someone or something that is or has been missing) To go to or be located at (a particular place).
- (transitive, informal) To be allowed to.
- (transitive) To begin (something); to get around to doing (something).
- (transitive) To affect adversely; to upset or annoy.
verb
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- cover with gravel
- (transitive) To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
- (transitive) To puzzle or annoy.
- (transitive) To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
- (transitive) To check or stop; to confound; to perplex.
- (transitive) To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
noun
- rock fragments and pebbles
- (uncountable, geology) A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- (slang) The stimulant drug alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone.
- (uncountable, cycling) Gravel cycling, a discipline in cycling different from road cycling, mountain biking or cyclocross, for a large part on gravel roads, typically with a dedicated gravel bike.
- (uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
- A lameness in the foot of a horse, usually caused by an abscess.
- A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
- (rare) Inability to see at night; night blindness.
verb
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus
- excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame
- (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.
- (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
- (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
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noun
verb
noun
- any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae)
- dead nettle, dumb nettle (Lamium spp.), particularly Lamium album, white nettle;
- Various species of the genus Dendrocnide:
- ball nettle (Solanum carolinense);
- bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle (Solanum elaeagnifolium);
- horse-nettle (Solanum rostratum);
- Most, but not all, subspecies of Urtica dioica (common nettle),
- small-leaved nettle (Dendrocnide photinophylla).
- Wood nettle (Laportea canadensis);
- bull nettle, spurge nettle (Cnidoscolus stimulosus)
- western horse-nettle, robust horse-nettle (Solanum dimidiatum);
- hackberry (Celtis spp.).
- scratchbush (Urera baccifera)
- Texas bull nettle (Cnidoscolus texanus),
- bull nettle (Cnidoscolus urens),
- Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
- horse nettle Agastache urticifolia,
- nilgiri nettle, Himalayan giant nettle (Girardinia diversifolia, family Urticaceae).
- false nettle (Boehmeria spp., family Urticaceae);
- rock nettle (Eucnide spp.);
- hemp nettle (Galeopsis spp.);
- tree nettle (Urtica ferox);
- Urtica incisa (Australian nettle);
- flame nettle or painted nettle (Coleus spp.);
- hedge nettle (Stachys spp.);
verb
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- censure severely or angrily
- play in ragtime
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- break into lumps before sorting
- treat cruelly
- (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.
- To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
- To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
- To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang, sometimes euphemistic) To menstruate.
- (intransitive) To become tattered.
- (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
- (transitive) To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
- (British slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
noun
- newspaper with half-size pages
- a small piece of cloth
- a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
- music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
- a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
- (slang, derogatory) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
- A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
- (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
- A ragged edge in metalworking.
- (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
- (typography) An uneven vertical margin (of a block of type).
- (slang, theater) A curtain of various kinds.
- (UK, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
- A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
- (derogatory) A shabby, beggarly person; synonym of ragamuffin.
- (singular or plural, slang) Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
- (especially in the plural) Tattered clothes (clothing).
verb
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- subject to prolonged examination, discussion, or deliberation
- change the arrangement or position of
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress
- (transitive) To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
- (transitive, rare) To twist, to weave.
- (transitive) To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
- (transitive) To annoy, irritate.
noun
- an effort that is inconvenient
- the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result
- That which cannot be easily understood or believed.
- The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
- (sometimes in the plural) Physical danger from the environment, especially with risk of drowning
- An objection.
- An awkward situation or quarrel.
- An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal.
noun
- A thing that frustrates.
- Anger not directed at anything or anyone in particular.
- The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated.
- The feeling of annoyance at impossibility from resistance or inability to achieve something.
- (law) The state of contract that allows a party to back away from its contractual obligations due to (unforeseen) radical changes to the nature of the thing a party has been obligated to.
- a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized
- the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
- an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
adj
noun
- a source of difficulty
- Difficulty in accepting or understanding or refusal to accept or understand.
- Objection.
- A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
- An addiction, other substance use disorder, or comparable psychological challenge.
- A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
- A puzzling circumstance.
- (climbing) A set of moves required to complete a climb.
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a question raised for consideration or solution
noun
verb
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- (imperative, euphemistic) Damn; curse.
- To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
- (intransitive, catenative) To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something).
- (intransitive or reflexive) To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.
- (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
- make nervous or agitated
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- make confused or perplexed or puzzled
- intrude or enter uninvited
noun
- A cause of annoyance.
- A bubble, as on a painted surface.
- (medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
- (uncountable) A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.
- A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease, or infection.
- A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
- A swelling on a plant.
- (roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
- (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
- a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint)
- (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin
verb
noun
- an annoyance
- a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- a swarm of insects that attack plants
- any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
- (figurative) A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates.
- A widespread affliction, calamity, or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
- (ornithology) A group of common grackles.
- (pathology) An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
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adj
verb
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- A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience.
- A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
- (law) Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.
- (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive
- something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
noun
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)
- an onerous or difficult concern
- The state or condition of being encumbered.
- Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.
- Alternative spelling of incumbrance (“in law: interest attached to a title; dependent”).
verb
noun
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot
- an unforeseen obstacle
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- a period of time spent in military service
- (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
- (military, slang) A period of time spent in the military.
- A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
- Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
- (mining) A hole cut into the wall of a mine on which timbers are rested.
- A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
- A sudden pull.
- A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.
verb
- jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- to hook or entangle
- travel by getting free rides from motorists
- connect to a vehicle:
- (intransitive) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
- (transitive) To pull with a jerk.
- (intransitive, UK) To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
- (intransitive) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
- (informal, transitive) Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
- (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
- (transitive) To attach, tie or fasten.
noun
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)
- an onerous or difficult concern
- Alternative form of encumbrance (“that which encumbers”).
- (property law) An interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.
- (law) One who is dependent on another.
noun
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
- (American football) blocking a player's path with your body
- the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding
- a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
- (US, law) In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
- (chess) The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
- (physics) An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
- A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
- (sports) The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
- (linguistics) A negative or inappropriate language transfer.
- The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
verb
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
- Aggravation; bother.
- (chiefly UK, Australia) Aggressive behaviour; loud, intimidating behaviour that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent.
- (gaming) Hostile attention from an enemy.
- (gaming) A measure of a player's level of belligerence.
- (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression
adj
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Angry.
- (TCGs) Of a player, favoring such decks.
- (British, US, slang) Hardcore, aggressive.
- (colloquial) Aggressive; inclined to attack (including, in video games, without having first been attacked).
- (TCGs) Of a deck, designed for aggressive play that seeks to defeat the opponent in the early stages of the game.
verb
verb
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- move deeply
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
noun
- an effort that is inconvenient
- a source of difficulty
- an unwanted pregnancy
- an event causing distress or pain
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an angry disturbance
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A malfunction.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
noun
- an effort that is inconvenient
- the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result
- That which cannot be easily understood or believed.
- The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
- (sometimes in the plural) Physical danger from the environment, especially with risk of drowning
- An objection.
- An awkward situation or quarrel.
- An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal.
noun
- A thing that frustrates.
- Anger not directed at anything or anyone in particular.
- The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated.
- The feeling of annoyance at impossibility from resistance or inability to achieve something.
- (law) The state of contract that allows a party to back away from its contractual obligations due to (unforeseen) radical changes to the nature of the thing a party has been obligated to.
- a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized
- the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
- an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
adj
noun
- a source of difficulty
- Difficulty in accepting or understanding or refusal to accept or understand.
- Objection.
- A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
- An addiction, other substance use disorder, or comparable psychological challenge.
- A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
- A puzzling circumstance.
- (climbing) A set of moves required to complete a climb.
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a question raised for consideration or solution
noun
verb
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- (imperative, euphemistic) Damn; curse.
- To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
- (intransitive, catenative) To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something).
- (intransitive or reflexive) To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.
- (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.
- make nervous or agitated
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- make confused or perplexed or puzzled
- intrude or enter uninvited
verb
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- administer an anesthetic drug to
- thrust or extend out
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- be sexually active
- deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- put out, as of a candle or a light
- put out considerable effort
- retire
- (baseball and cricket) To cause a player on offense to be out.
- (boxing and medicine) Synonym of knock out: to render unconscious.
- To extinguish (fire).
- To expel.
- To cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose, inconvenience, or disturb.
- (intransitive, originally US slang) To consent to having sex.
- To turn off (light).
- To broadcast, to publish.
- To remove from office.
- (intransitive) To go out, to head out, especially (sailing) to set sail.
- (sports) To knock out: to eliminate from a competition.
- (transitive) To place outside, to remove, particularly
- To dislocate (a joint).
- (transitive) To blind (eyes).
- To produce, to emit.
adj
noun
verb
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- move deeply
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
noun
- an effort that is inconvenient
- a source of difficulty
- an unwanted pregnancy
- an event causing distress or pain
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an angry disturbance
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A malfunction.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
verb
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- decorate with an interlaced design
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
noun
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
verb
noun
- (transgender slang) Deliberate misspelling of girlcock and girldick.
- On a smaller scale, the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.
- (figuratively, by extension) Any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.
- (road transport) A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.
- a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible
verb
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading
- feel extreme irritation or anger
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- cause friction
- warm by rubbing, as with the hands
- (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.
- (intransitive, figurative) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
- (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
- (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.
- (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
- (transitive, figurative) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
noun
verb
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- coat or stuff with a spicy paste
- (intransitive) To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
- To ghostwrite; to author while working as a ‘devil’.
- To shred fabric into its fibres for recycling, as in the production of mungo or shoddy.
- To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
- To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
- To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
- To annoy or bother.
- To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served.
noun
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- a word used in exclamations of confusion
- an evil supernatural being
- a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man)
- (cycling, slang) An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
- A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
- (folklore) A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.
- A dust devil.
- (cooking) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
- (theology) An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.
- (nautical) Ellipsis of devil seam (“the seam between garboard strake and the keel, on wooden boats”).
- A Tasmanian devil.
- A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.
- A printer's assistant.
- (euphemistic, with an article, as an intensifier) Hell.
- The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
- A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc., as used in the production of mungo or shoddy.
- (dialectal, in compounds) A barren, unproductive and unused area.
- (India) A poltergeist that haunts printing works.
- A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.
name
verb
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- reach or gain access to
- influence by corruption
- To persuade by intimidation; to tamper with; to corrupt.
- To manage to gain access to.
- To begin working on or dealing with.
- (slang, US) To contact someone.
- To mean, signify, imply.
- (slang, UK) To tease (someone).
- To understand or ascertain by investigation.
- To attack verbally or physically; to annoy, bother.
verb
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- arrive at the point of
- reach a goal
- (transitive) To reach or arrive at (a physical or abstract destination, or state of doing a certain activity).
- (transitive) To attack, intimidate or kill; to corrupt or bribe.
- (of someone or something that is or has been missing) To go to or be located at (a particular place).
- (transitive, informal) To be allowed to.
- (transitive) To begin (something); to get around to doing (something).
- (transitive) To affect adversely; to upset or annoy.
verb
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- cover with gravel
- (transitive) To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
- (transitive) To puzzle or annoy.
- (transitive) To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
- (transitive) To check or stop; to confound; to perplex.
- (transitive) To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
noun
- rock fragments and pebbles
- (uncountable, geology) A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- (slang) The stimulant drug alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone.
- (uncountable, cycling) Gravel cycling, a discipline in cycling different from road cycling, mountain biking or cyclocross, for a large part on gravel roads, typically with a dedicated gravel bike.
- (uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
- A lameness in the foot of a horse, usually caused by an abscess.
- A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
- (rare) Inability to see at night; night blindness.
verb
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus
- excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame
- (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.
- (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
- (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae)
- dead nettle, dumb nettle (Lamium spp.), particularly Lamium album, white nettle;
- Various species of the genus Dendrocnide:
- ball nettle (Solanum carolinense);
- bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle (Solanum elaeagnifolium);
- horse-nettle (Solanum rostratum);
- Most, but not all, subspecies of Urtica dioica (common nettle),
- small-leaved nettle (Dendrocnide photinophylla).
- Wood nettle (Laportea canadensis);
- bull nettle, spurge nettle (Cnidoscolus stimulosus)
- western horse-nettle, robust horse-nettle (Solanum dimidiatum);
- hackberry (Celtis spp.).
- scratchbush (Urera baccifera)
- Texas bull nettle (Cnidoscolus texanus),
- bull nettle (Cnidoscolus urens),
- Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
- horse nettle Agastache urticifolia,
- nilgiri nettle, Himalayan giant nettle (Girardinia diversifolia, family Urticaceae).
- false nettle (Boehmeria spp., family Urticaceae);
- rock nettle (Eucnide spp.);
- hemp nettle (Galeopsis spp.);
- tree nettle (Urtica ferox);
- Urtica incisa (Australian nettle);
- flame nettle or painted nettle (Coleus spp.);
- hedge nettle (Stachys spp.);
verb
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- censure severely or angrily
- play in ragtime
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- break into lumps before sorting
- treat cruelly
- (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.
- To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
- To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
- To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang, sometimes euphemistic) To menstruate.
- (intransitive) To become tattered.
- (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
- (transitive) To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
- (British slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
noun
- newspaper with half-size pages
- a small piece of cloth
- a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
- music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
- a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
- (slang, derogatory) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
- A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
- (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
- A ragged edge in metalworking.
- (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
- (typography) An uneven vertical margin (of a block of type).
- (slang, theater) A curtain of various kinds.
- (UK, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
- A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
- (derogatory) A shabby, beggarly person; synonym of ragamuffin.
- (singular or plural, slang) Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
- (especially in the plural) Tattered clothes (clothing).
verb
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- subject to prolonged examination, discussion, or deliberation
- change the arrangement or position of
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress
- (transitive) To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
- (transitive, rare) To twist, to weave.
- (transitive) To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
- (transitive) To annoy, irritate.
adj
- causing inconvenience
- difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
- socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner
- lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
- hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
- not elegant or graceful in expression
- Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments.
- Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.
- Perverse; adverse; difficult to handle.
- Lacking social skills, or uncomfortable with social interaction.
noun
adj
noun
- playful vexation
- the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb
- the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
- The act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously, especially by ridicule; provoking someone with persistent annoyances; making fun of, making light of someone.
- The act of removing tangles from one's hair with a comb.
verb
adj
- causing irritation or annoyance
- (law, of an action) Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause.
- Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.
- (law, of a party or entity) In the habit of starting vexatious litigation and therefore liable to have restraints placed on one's ability to access the courts.
adj
noun
- a source of difficulty
- Difficulty in accepting or understanding or refusal to accept or understand.
- Objection.
- A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
- An addiction, other substance use disorder, or comparable psychological challenge.
- A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
- A puzzling circumstance.
- (climbing) A set of moves required to complete a climb.
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a question raised for consideration or solution