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Hello, dear readers! Here I am with another bunch of synonyms for you. In this post, I will share a selection of verbs with the meaning of making someone annoyed or angry.

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🔸to peeve – to annoy
▫️It peeves me that it is raining the whole weekend.
▫️Helen was peeved by her sister's request to pick up a delivery for her from the post office.
▫️Some people's egotistical behaviour can peeve you a lot.

🔸to annoy – to get on someone's nerves up to an extent of making them angry
▫️Sara gets annoyed when mosquitoes start buzzing over her ear in the night, interrupting her sleep.
▫️It annoys me when people are coughing en masse during spectacles in theatres.
▫️It annoys Tom when someone is answering a call during a showing in the cinema.

🔸to irk – to make someone feel annoyed
▫️His arrogance irks me.
▫️Denis was feeling nervous about the approaching exam, and his self-centred behavior irked his mother when she needed his help.
▫️The need to postpone his meetup with friends because of the sudden change in his work schedule irked him.

🔸to irritate – to make someone lose temper
▫️It was the offhand, unimportant manner it had been done that irritated him. (Harry Harrison – Deathworld)
▫️He brimmed with enthusiasms and self-confidence and issued pronouncements on all sorts of subjects, which amused some of the Rhodes scholars and irritated others. (The New Yorker)

🔸to bother – to annoy or cause problems for someone
▫️The boy did not want to bother his father with questions about his homework because he looked tired after a day at work.
▫️They thought they could live happily in a bungalo away from civilisation without being bothered by city chaos.
▫️The news about a prison break bothered the citizens.

🔸to pester – to annoy someone by repetitively asking the same thing
▫️John has been pestering her to go out with him all month. (Cambridge Dictionary)
▫️Baggers were pestering tourists for coins at the railway hub.
▫️Kevin was pestering his mates to lend him some money to pay back what he owed to his boss.

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#synonymiser
Hello, dear readers! Here I am with another bunch of synonyms for you. In this post, I will share a selection of verbs with the meaning of making someone annoyed or angry.

But before I start, I want to announce a simple poll below this post. The question is 'Are you ready to support this channel financially?' If you are, please press the 💸 button. Your financial support will allow me to post more content more regularly and will be vastly appreciated.

And now to the post! And as always I encourage you to look for more authentic context with the words in the list to improve your own command of the words in it.

🔸to peeve – to annoy
▫️It peeves me that it is raining the whole weekend.
▫️Helen was peeved by her sister's request to pick up a delivery for her from the post office.
▫️Some people's egotistical behaviour can peeve you a lot.

🔸to annoy – to get on someone's nerves up to an extent of making them angry
▫️Sara gets annoyed when mosquitoes start buzzing over her ear in the night, interrupting her sleep.
▫️It annoys me when people are coughing en masse during spectacles in theatres.
▫️It annoys Tom when someone is answering a call during a showing in the cinema.

🔸to irk – to make someone feel annoyed
▫️His arrogance irks me.
▫️Denis was feeling nervous about the approaching exam, and his self-centred behavior irked his mother when she needed his help.
▫️The need to postpone his meetup with friends because of the sudden change in his work schedule irked him.

🔸to irritate – to make someone lose temper
▫️It was the offhand, unimportant manner it had been done that irritated him. (Harry Harrison – Deathworld)
▫️He brimmed with enthusiasms and self-confidence and issued pronouncements on all sorts of subjects, which amused some of the Rhodes scholars and irritated others. (The New Yorker)

🔸to bother – to annoy or cause problems for someone
▫️The boy did not want to bother his father with questions about his homework because he looked tired after a day at work.
▫️They thought they could live happily in a bungalo away from civilisation without being bothered by city chaos.
▫️The news about a prison break bothered the citizens.

🔸to pester – to annoy someone by repetitively asking the same thing
▫️John has been pestering her to go out with him all month. (Cambridge Dictionary)
▫️Baggers were pestering tourists for coins at the railway hub.
▫️Kevin was pestering his mates to lend him some money to pay back what he owed to his boss.

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