IRRITATE

v. a.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To render null and void. [R.] Abp. Bramhall.

2.
v.

To increase the action or violence of; to heighten excitement in; to intensify; to stimulate. Cold maketh the spirits vigorous and irritateth them. Bacon.

3.
v.

To excite anger or displeasure in; to provoke; to tease; to exasperate; to annoy; to vex; as, the insolence of a tyrant irritates his subjects. Dismiss the man, nor irritate the god: Prevent the rage of him who reigns above. Pope.

4.
v.

To produce irritation in; to stimulate; to cause to contract. See Irritation, n., 2.

5.
v.

To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage.

6.
a.

Excited; heightened. [Obs.]

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