Synonyms of the word

harry

• v. (transitive) To harass, stress, badger, bother; to distress, trouble, or tire with demands, threats, or…
• v. To strip; to lay waste.

annoy

• v. (transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant…
• v. (intransitive) To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
• v. (transitive) To molest; to harm; to injure.
• n. (now rare, literary) A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
• n. (now rare, literary) That which causes such a feeling.

beset

• v. (transitive) To surround or hem in.
• v. (transitive) To attack, especially from all sides.
• v. (transitive) To decorate something with jewels etc.
• v. (nautical) Of a ship, to get trapped by ice.

bother

• v. (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate.
• v. (intransitive) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
• v. (intransitive) To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
• n. Fuss, ado.
• n. Trouble, inconvenience.
• interj. A mild expression of annoyance.

chafe

• n. Heat excited by friction.
• n. Injury or wear caused by friction.
• n. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
• n. (archaic) An expression of opinionated conflict.
• v. (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
• v. (transitive) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
• v. (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.
• v. (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
• v. (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.
• v. (intransitive) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.

chevy

• n. A hunt or pursuit.
• n. A cry used in hunting.
• n. The game of prisoners' bars.
• v. to hunt or chase.

chivvy

• v. To subject to harassment or verbal abuse.
• v. To coerce, as by persistent request.
• v. To sneak up on or rapidly approach.
• v. To pursue as in a hunt.
• n. A goad.

chivy

• n. A hunt or chase.
• n. A hunting cry.
• v. (transitive) To vex or harass with petty attacks.
• v. (transitive) To maneuver or secure gradually.
• v. (intransitive) To scurry.

destroy

• v. (transitive) To damage beyond use or repair.
• v. (intransitive) To cause destruction.
• v. (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
• v. (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
• v. (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
• v. (colloquial, transitive) To defeat soundly.
• v. (computing, transitive) To remove data.

devil

• n. (theology) A creature of hell.
• n. (theology) (the devil or the Devil) The chief devil; Satan.
• n. The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
• n. A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous…
• n. A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
• n. (euphemistically, with an article, as an intensifier) Hell.
• n. A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil…
• n. A dust devil.
• n. (religion, Christian Science) An evil or erring entity.
• n. (dialectal, in compounds) A barren, unproductive and unused area.
• n. (cooking) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
• n. A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
• n. A Tasmanian devil.
• n. (cycling, slang) An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
• v. To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
• v. To annoy or bother; to bedevil.
• v. To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
• v. To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
• v. To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
• v. To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and…

gravel

• n. (uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railroads, and as ballast.
• n. A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
• n. (uncountable, geology) A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
• n. (uncountable, archaic) Kidney stones; a deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the…
• v. (transitive) To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
• v. To puzzle or annoy.
• v. To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
• v. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
• v. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

harass

• v. To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.
• v. To annoy endlessly or systematically; to molest.
• v. To put excessive burdens upon; to subject to anxieties.
• n. (obsolete) devastation; waste.
• n. (obsolete) worry; harassment.

hassle

• n. Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems.
• n. A fight or argument.
• n. An action which is not worth the difficulty involved.
• v. To trouble, to bother, to annoy.
• v. To pick a fight or start an argument.

irritate

• v. (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
• v. (transitive) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
• v. (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
• v. (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
• v. (obsolete) To render null and void.

molest

• v. To annoy intentionally.
• v. To disturb or tamper with.
• v. To sexually abuse, especially a minor.

nark

• n. (Britain, slang) A police spy or informer.
• n. (Australia, slang) An unpleasant person, especially one who makes things difficult for others; a spoilsport.
• v. (transitive, thieves' cant) To watch; to observe.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To serve or behave as a spy or informer.
• v. (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To complain.
• v. (transitive, slang, often imperative) To stop.
• n. Alternative form of narc (narcotics officer).

nettle

• n. Any plant, the foliage of which is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
• n. Certain plants that have spines or prickles.
• n. Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica.
• n. Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
• v. (literally) Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting causing a rash in someone.
• v. (figuratively) To pique, irritate, vex or provoke someone.

plague

• n. (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused…
• n. (pathology) An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
• n. A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
• n. A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates.
• v. (transitive) To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.
• v. (transitive) To afflict with a disease or other calamity.

provoke

• v. (transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
• v. (transitive) To bring about a reaction.
• v. (obsolete) To appeal.

rag

• n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
• n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
• n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
• n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
• n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
• n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
• n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
• v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
• n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
• v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
• v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
• v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
• v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
• v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
• v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
• n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
• n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
• n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
• n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

ravage

• v. (transitive) To devastate or destroy something.
• v. (transitive) To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.
• v. (intransitive) To wreak destruction.
• n. Grievous damage or havoc.
• n. Depredation or devastation.

rile

• v. to make angry.
• v. to stir or move from a state of calm or order.

ruin

• n. (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a…
• n. (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
• n. (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
• n. (obsolete) A fall or tumble.
• n. A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
• v. (transitive) to cause the fiscal ruin of.
• v. To destroy or make something no longer usable.
• v. To cause severe financial loss to; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
• v. To upset or mess up the plans or progress of, or to put into disarray; to spoil.

vex

• v. (transitive, now rare) To trouble aggressively, to harass.
• v. (transitive) To annoy, irritate.
• v. (transitive) To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
• v. (transitive, rare) To twist, to weave.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.
• v. (transitive) To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.