Synonyms of the word

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.

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.

combat

• n. A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
• v. (transitive) To fight with; to struggle for victory against.

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…

disturbance

• n. The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
• n. Something that disturbs.
• n. A noisy commotion that causes a hubbub or interruption.
• n. An interruption of that which is normal or regular.
• n. (psychology) A serious mental imbalance or illness.

dogfight

• n. A twisting turning battle between two or more military aircraft, especially between fighters.
• n. A fight between dogs.
• v. To engage in a battle between fighter planes.

fight

• v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
• v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
• v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
• v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
• v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
• n. An occasion of fighting.
• n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
• n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
• n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
• n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
• n. The will or ability to fight.
• n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

fighting

• v. present participle of fight.
• adj. Engaged in war or other conflict.
• adj. Apt to provoke a fight.
• n. A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight.

fuss

• n. (countable or uncountable) Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something.
• n. A complaint or noise; a scene.
• n. An exhibition of affection or admiration.
• v. (intransitive) To be very worried or excited about something, often too much.
• v. (intransitive) To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust; to worry about something.
• v. (intransitive, especially of babies) To cry or be ill-humoured.
• v. (intransitive, with over) To show affection for, especially animals.
• v. (transitive) To pet.

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.

harry

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

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.

perturbation

• n. (uncountable) Agitation; the state of being perturbed.
• n. (countable) A small change in a physical system, or more broadly any definable system (such as a biological…
• n. (countable, astronomy, physics) Variation in an orbit due to the influence of external bodies.

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.

rile

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

rough-and-tumble

• adj. active, vigorous and rough, with the possibility of harm.
• adj. highly competitive.
• n. Rough activity; fights.
• n. An environment of rough activity.
• n. A person who characteristically engages in such activity.
• v. Engage in rough-and-tumble activity.

scrap

• n. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
• n. (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
• n. Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
• n. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
• n. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
• v. (transitive) To discard.
• v. (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
• v. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
• v. (transitive) To make into scrap.
• n. A fight, tussle, skirmish.
• v. to fight.

scuffle

• n. A rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters.
• n. (archaic) A child's pinafore or bib.
• v. (intransitive) To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.
• v. (intransitive) To walk with a shuffling gait.
• v. (slang) To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially.
• n. A Dutch hoe, manipulated by both pushing and pulling.

trouble

• n. A distressing or dangerous situation.
• n. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
• n. A violent occurrence or event.
• n. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
• n. A malfunction.
• n. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
• n. (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
• v. (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
• v. (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother; to annoy, pester.
• v. (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.

tussle

• n. A physical fight or struggle.
• n. A conflict, an argument, a disagreement.
• v. To have a tussle.

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.