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- The act of irritating or annoying.
- The state of being irritated.
- A thing or person that annoys.
- A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.
- (physiology) A state of inflammation or of painful reaction to cell or tissue damage.
- the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
- (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation
- an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
- unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
- the act of troubling or annoying someone
- a sudden outburst of anger
- To annoy, irritate.
- To leave unexpectedly.
- To abandon.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fuck, off.
- To go to hell; to disappear or go away; to screw oneself.
- To fritter; to fuck around.
- get sexual gratification through self-stimulation
- be lazy or idle
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- annoying and unpleasant
- causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin
- (informal, uncommon) Feeling an uneasy fearful sensation; creeped out.
- (informal) Causing discomfort or repulsion due to strange or eccentric behavior.
- Moving by creeping along.
- (informal) Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.
- (informal, especially) Causing discomfort through exhibiting sexually inappropriate behavior.
- The sound made by something that grates against something else.
- (nautical, in the plural) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
- The loose material that comes from something being grated.
- A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
- A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
- An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum
- irritate
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- receive as a retribution or punishment
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- achieve a point or goal
- suffer from the receipt of
- evoke an emotional response
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- take vengeance on or get even
- acquire as a result of some effort or action
- perceive by hearing
- give certain properties to something
- overcome or destroy
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- attract and fix
- come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- go or come after and bring or take back
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- purchase
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- reach and board
- reach by calculation
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
- (impersonal, informal) Used with a pronoun subject, usually you but sometimes one, to indicate that the object of the verb exists, can occur or is otherwise typical.
- (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- (transitive) To getter.
- (transitive) To cause to do.
- (transitive) To find as an answer.
- (transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
- (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
- (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
- (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
- (copulative, rather informal, followed by an adjective) To become, or cause oneself to become (often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives).
- (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
- (transitive) To receive.
- (transitive) To cause someone to laugh.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
- (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
- (intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
- (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- (auxiliary, informal) Used with the past participle to form the dynamic passive voice of a dynamic verb. Compared with static passive with to be, this emphasizes the commencement of an action or entry into a state.
- (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
- (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- (euphemistic) To kill.
- (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
- (informal) Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition.
- (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
- (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
- (UK, Ireland, regional) Synonym of git (“contemptible person”).
- Lineage.
- (Internet slang) A message or post on an online platform, particularly imageboards, with a unique identifier deemed special or rare, usually due to patterns in the ID.
- A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
- (anatomy, immunology) In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.
- a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses
- a feeling of resentful anger
- 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.
- 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
- an exasperated feeling of annoyance
- unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
- action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse
- The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
- Exaggerated representation.
- An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
- (informal) Provocation, irritation, annoyance.
- To annoy or bother.
- (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 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.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- coat or stuff with a spicy paste
- (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.
- 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)
- (figurative) Causing irritation or annoyance.
- Producing, spreading, promoting or infected with pestilence; causing infection. (of people, animals, places or substances)
- (figurative) Having a harmful moral effect (especially one that is believed to spread in the manner of pestilence).
- During which pestilence spreads. (of a period of time)
- Spreading in the manner of pestilence. (of illnesses)
- Caused by pestilence. (of symptoms)
- likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
- the quality of being highly unpleasant
- a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
- malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
- (uncountable) Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty.
- (uncountable) Unpleasantness, disagreeableness (to the senses).
- (countable) A nasty action, object, quality, etc. (all senses of nasty).
- (uncountable) Lack of cleanliness.
- (uncountable) Dirt, filth.
- Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.
- (law, of an action) Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause.
- (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.
- causing irritation or annoyance
- (transitive) To annoy, irritate.
- (transitive) To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
- (transitive, rare) To twist, to weave.
- (transitive) To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
- 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
- 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.
- 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”).
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- The act of irritating or annoying.
- The state of being irritated.
- A thing or person that annoys.
- A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.
- (physiology) A state of inflammation or of painful reaction to cell or tissue damage.
- the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
- (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation
- an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
- unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
- the act of troubling or annoying someone
- a sudden outburst of anger
- 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.
- 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
- an exasperated feeling of annoyance
- unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
- action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse
- The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
- Exaggerated representation.
- An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
- (informal) Provocation, irritation, annoyance.
- the quality of being highly unpleasant
- a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
- malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
- (uncountable) Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty.
- (uncountable) Unpleasantness, disagreeableness (to the senses).
- (countable) A nasty action, object, quality, etc. (all senses of nasty).
- (uncountable) Lack of cleanliness.
- (uncountable) Dirt, filth.
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- To annoy, irritate.
- To leave unexpectedly.
- To abandon.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fuck, off.
- To go to hell; to disappear or go away; to screw oneself.
- To fritter; to fuck around.
- get sexual gratification through self-stimulation
- be lazy or idle
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- irritate
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- receive as a retribution or punishment
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- achieve a point or goal
- suffer from the receipt of
- evoke an emotional response
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- take vengeance on or get even
- acquire as a result of some effort or action
- perceive by hearing
- give certain properties to something
- overcome or destroy
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- attract and fix
- come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- go or come after and bring or take back
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- purchase
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- reach and board
- reach by calculation
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
- (impersonal, informal) Used with a pronoun subject, usually you but sometimes one, to indicate that the object of the verb exists, can occur or is otherwise typical.
- (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- (transitive) To getter.
- (transitive) To cause to do.
- (transitive) To find as an answer.
- (transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
- (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
- (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
- (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
- (copulative, rather informal, followed by an adjective) To become, or cause oneself to become (often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives).
- (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
- (transitive) To receive.
- (transitive) To cause someone to laugh.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
- (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
- (intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
- (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- (auxiliary, informal) Used with the past participle to form the dynamic passive voice of a dynamic verb. Compared with static passive with to be, this emphasizes the commencement of an action or entry into a state.
- (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
- (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- (euphemistic) To kill.
- (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
- (informal) Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition.
- (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
- (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
- (UK, Ireland, regional) Synonym of git (“contemptible person”).
- Lineage.
- (Internet slang) A message or post on an online platform, particularly imageboards, with a unique identifier deemed special or rare, usually due to patterns in the ID.
- A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
- (anatomy, immunology) In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.
- a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses
- a feeling of resentful anger
- To annoy or bother.
- (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 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.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- coat or stuff with a spicy paste
- (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.
- 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)
- (transitive) To annoy, irritate.
- (transitive) To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
- (transitive, rare) To twist, to weave.
- (transitive) To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
- 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
- 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.
- 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”).
- 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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- annoying and unpleasant
- causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin
- (informal, uncommon) Feeling an uneasy fearful sensation; creeped out.
- (informal) Causing discomfort or repulsion due to strange or eccentric behavior.
- Moving by creeping along.
- (informal) Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.
- (informal, especially) Causing discomfort through exhibiting sexually inappropriate behavior.
- The sound made by something that grates against something else.
- (nautical, in the plural) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
- The loose material that comes from something being grated.
- A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
- A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
- An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum
- (figurative) Causing irritation or annoyance.
- Producing, spreading, promoting or infected with pestilence; causing infection. (of people, animals, places or substances)
- (figurative) Having a harmful moral effect (especially one that is believed to spread in the manner of pestilence).
- During which pestilence spreads. (of a period of time)
- Spreading in the manner of pestilence. (of illnesses)
- Caused by pestilence. (of symptoms)
- likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
- Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.
- (law, of an action) Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause.
- (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.
- causing irritation or annoyance