pick
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urge
work
shit-stir
goad
provocation
provocable
comb someone's hair the wrong way
rouse
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ert
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hotblooded
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inflame
bearbait
chafe
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incitation
incitement
hulk out
do one's block
rage
salty
piquant
get to
inflammatory
enrage
distasteful
rancid
needle
irritable
bare one's teeth
get up someone's ass
lash out
gallousness
furor
let someone have it
choleric
hot-tempered
lam into
short-tempered
hotheaded
light the touch-paper
suppress
draw
irascible
rark up
anger
quick-tempered
belabour
irritative
get under someone's skin
tease
rampingly
agitate
bite
piss off
tindery
see red
chaffing
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incense
storm
ramp
steam
switch
storminess
rile
caffeinate
madden
do someone's head in
provocatively
torrefaction
give curry
provokingly
ask for it
when you mess with the bull, you get the horns
ree
vulgarity
rip into
ream
ireful
wide
ragelike
detonate
hot
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inflammatory
distasteful
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irritable
choleric
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irritative
tindery
ireful
wide
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pick
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set off
instigate
incite
stir up
cue
urge
work
shit-stir
goad
comb someone's hair the wrong way
rouse
ert
enturbulate
inflame
bearbait
chafe
aggravate
hulk out
do one's block
rage
get to
enrage
needle
bare one's teeth
get up someone's ass
lash out
let someone have it
lam into
light the touch-paper
suppress
draw
rark up
anger
belabour
get under someone's skin
tease
agitate
piss off
see red
incense
storm
ramp
steam
switch
rile
caffeinate
madden
do someone's head in
give curry
ask for it
ree
rip into
ream
detonate
verb
- provoke
- select carefully from a group
- look for and gather
- harass with constant criticism
- remove in small bits
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- pilfer or rob
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
noun
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the act of choosing or selecting
verb
- To spark or provoke.
- To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
- To give someone a cue signal.
- To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.
noun
- A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.
- A marker or signal that triggers something, such as the start of an audio recording.
- The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next actor to speak; any word or words which serve to remind an actor to speak or to do something; a catchword.
- The name of the Latin-script letter Q.
- An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
- A hint or intimation.
verb
- To provoke; to exasperate.
- To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
- To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
- To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
- To press onward or forward.
- To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
- To press hard upon; to follow closely.
noun
verb
- provoke or excite
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- be employed
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- perform as expected when applied
- shape, form, or improve a material
- give a workout to
- proceed along a path
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- move in an agitated manner
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- cause to work
- prepare for crops
- behave in a certain way when handled
- have and exert influence or effect
- operate in or through
- cause to operate or function
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- make something, usually for a specific function
- move into or onto
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- cause to undergo fermentation
- go sour or spoil
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
noun
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- the occupation for which you are paid
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- a place where work is done
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
verb
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
- To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- To pull by main strength; to haul.
- To tell off; to criticise.
noun
- An arousal.
- The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
adj
verb
- To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
- To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
- To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
- To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
- To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
- To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
verb
- To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
- To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
- To be worn by rubbing.
- To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
- To fret and wear by rubbing.
- To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
noun
verb
verb
- To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.
- To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.
- To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
noun
- A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.
- Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
- A strong beam resting on props, used as a temporary support during building repairs.
- A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
- A text string that is searched for within another string. (see: needle in a haystack)
- A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph.
- A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a blunt but otherwise similar implement used for forming loops or knots in crafts such as darning, knitting, tatting, etc.
- The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
- Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Synlestes, endemic to Australia.
verb
verb
- To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
- To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
- To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
- To prevent publication.
- To stop or prevent the enemy from executing unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
- To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
- To stop a flow or stream.
- To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
verb
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
verb
- To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
- To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).
- To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately.
- To entice, tempt.
- To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
- To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
- To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.
- To backcomb.
noun
noun
- aggression
- A small meal or snack.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- Something unpleasant.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- The act of biting.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- An act of plagiarism.
verb
- To attack with the teeth.
- To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- To take or keep a firm hold.
- To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- To sting.
- To have significant effect, often negative.
- To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- To plagiarize, to imitate.
- To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
verb
verb
- To make angry.
- To be covered with condensed water vapor.
- To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- To travel by means of steam power.
- To cook with steam.
- To produce or vent steam.
- To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
noun
- Pent-up anger.
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- mist, fog
- A steam-powered vehicle.
- Internal energy for motive power.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- The vapor formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase.
adj
verb
- To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To trim.
- To change places, tasks, etc.
- To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
- To exchange.
- To swing or whisk.
- To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- To be swung or whisked.
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- To whip or hit with a switch.
- To shift to another circuit.
adj
- Pertaining to skiing backwards.
- Pertaining to riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.
noun
- A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
- A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
- A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
- A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- Synonym of rute.
- A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- A change or exchange.
- One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
- A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.
- A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
verb
- To yell at or berate.
- To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.
- To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider.
- To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
- To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
- To remove (material) by reaming.
- To remove burrs and debris from a freshly bored hole.
noun
adj
- Antagonistic, provocative.
- Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
- Operating at the side of the playing area.
- Large in scope.
- Having a large physical extent from side to side.
- On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
noun
adv
adj
- Easily provoked to anger.
- Stolen.
- Not covered by funds on account.
- Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something
- Extremely fast or with great speed.
- Sexually aroused; randy.
- Very good, remarkable, exciting.
- Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
- Feverish.
- Of great current interest; provoking current debate or controversy.
- Very physically and/or sexually attractive.
- Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
- Sexual or sexy; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
- Popular; in demand.
- Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
- Fresh; just released.
- Having or giving off a high temperature.
- Characterized by police presence or activity.
- Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
- Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.
- Loud, producing a strong electric signal for the amplifier.
- Extremely attracted to.
- Electrically charged.
- Radioactive.
- Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
adv
verb
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