| arrival | (noun) accomplishment of an objective | Synonyms: reaching |
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| (noun) the act of arriving at a certain place | - |
| (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arriver, comer |
| arrive | (verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress | Synonyms: come, get |
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| (verb) succeed in a big way; get to the top | Synonyms: get in, go far, make it |
| arrivederci | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| arriver | (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arrival, comer |
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| arriviste | (noun) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart |
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| barricade | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: roadblock |
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| (noun) a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy | - |
| (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricado |
| (verb) prevent access to by barricading | - |
| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
| barricaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, blockaded |
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| barricado | (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricade |
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| barrier | (noun) a structure or object that impedes free movement | - |
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| (noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: roadblock |
| (noun) anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access | - |
| barring | (noun) the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto | Synonyms: blackball |
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| barrio | (noun) an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country | - |
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| (noun) a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city (especially in the United States) | - |
| barrister | (noun) a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution | - |
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| berried | (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: baccate, bacciferous |
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| blurriness | (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: fogginess, fuzziness, indistinctness, softness |
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| bullterrier | (noun) a powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers | Synonyms: bull terrier |
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| burrito | (noun) a flour tortilla folded around a filling | - |
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| carriage | (noun) a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses | Synonyms: equipage, rig |
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| (noun) a railcar where passengers ride | Synonyms: coach, passenger car |
| (noun) a machine part that carries something else | - |
| (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pushchair, pusher, stroller |
| (noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: bearing, posture |
| carriageway | (noun) one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes | - |
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| carrier | (noun) (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring | - |
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| (noun) a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings | Synonyms: aircraft carrier, attack aircraft carrier, flattop |
| (noun) a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like | - |
| (noun) a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something | - |
| (noun) a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages | Synonyms: common carrier |
| (noun) (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others | Synonyms: immune carrier |
| (noun) a boy who delivers newspapers | Synonyms: newsboy |
| (noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: letter carrier, mail carrier, mailman, postman |
| (noun) someone whose employment involves carrying something | Synonyms: bearer, toter |
| (noun) a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal | Synonyms: carrier wave |
| (noun) an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction | - |
| carrion | (noun) the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food | - |
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| carrizo | (noun) tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles; widely distributed in moist areas; used for mats, screens and arrow shafts | Synonyms: common reed, ditch reed, Phragmites communis |
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| churrigueresco | (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: baroque, churrigueresque |
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| churrigueresque | (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: baroque, churrigueresco |
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| cirriped | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirripede |
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| cirripede | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirriped |
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| concurring | (adjective) being of the same opinion | Synonyms: concordant |
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| cooccurring | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, simultaneous |
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| corrida | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: bullfight |
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| corridor | (noun) an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it | - |
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| corrie | (noun) a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake | Synonyms: cirque, cwm |
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| corrigenda | (noun) a list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections | - |
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| corrigendum | (noun) a printer's error; to be corrected | - |
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| corrigible | (adjective) capable of being corrected or set right | - |
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| counterirritant | (noun) a medicine applied locally to produce superficial inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation | - |
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| curricular | (adjective) of or relating to an academic course of study | - |
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| curriculum | (noun) an integrated course of academic studies | Synonyms: course of study, program, programme, syllabus |
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| currier | (noun) a craftsman who curries leather for use | - |
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| currish | (adjective) base and cowardly | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a cur; snarling and rude | - |
| currishly | (adverb) in a currish manner; meanspiritedly | Synonyms: ignobly |
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| derrick | (noun) a simple crane having lifting tackle slung from a boom | - |
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| (noun) a framework erected over an oil well to allow drill tubes to be raised and lowered | - |
| derriere | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| derringer | (noun) a pocket pistol of large caliber with a short barrel | - |
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| derris | (noun) any of various usually woody vines of the genus Derris of tropical Asia whose roots yield the insecticide rotenone; several are sources of native fish and arrow poisons | - |
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| earring | (noun) jewelry to ornament the ear; usually clipped to the earlobe or fastened through a hole in the lobe | - |
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| erring | (adjective) capable of making an error | Synonyms: error-prone |
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| exterritorial | (adjective) outside territorial limits or jurisdiction | Synonyms: extraterritorial |
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| extracurricular | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: adulterous, extramarital |
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| (adjective) outside the regular duties of your job or profession | - |
| (adjective) outside the regular academic curriculum | - |
| extraterritorial | (adjective) outside territorial limits or jurisdiction | Synonyms: exterritorial |
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| farrier | (noun) a person who shoes horses | Synonyms: horseshoer |
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| ferric | (adjective) of or relating to or containing iron | Synonyms: ferrous |
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| ferricyanide | (noun) salt of ferricyanic acid obtained by oxidation of a ferrocyanide | - |
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| ferrimagnetism | (noun) a phenomenon in ferrites where there can be incomplete cancellation of antiferromagnetic arranged spins giving a net magnetic moment | - |
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| ferrite | (noun) a solid solution in which alpha iron is the solvent | - |
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| (noun) a magnetic allotrope of iron; stable below 906 degrees centigrade | Synonyms: alpha-Fe, alpha-ferrite |
| ferritin | (noun) a protein containing 20% iron that is found in the intestines and liver and spleen; it is one of the chief forms in which iron is stored in the body | - |
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| forecarriage | (noun) a small wheeled carriage attached under the front end of a plow beam. | Synonyms: fore carriage, wheeled forecarriage |
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| furrier | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments | Synonyms: cloakmaker |
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| furring | (noun) strip used to give a level surface for attaching wallboard | Synonyms: furring strip |
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| (noun) a furlike coating of matter as on the tongue | - |
| garrison | (noun) a fortified military post where troops are stationed | Synonyms: fort |
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| (noun) the troops who maintain and guard a fortified place | - |
| (verb) station (troops) in a fort or garrison | - |
| guerrilla | (noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerilla, insurgent, irregular |
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| harridan | (noun) a scolding (even vicious) old woman | - |
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| harried | (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: annoyed, harassed, pestered, vexed |
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| harrier | (noun) hawks that hunt over meadows and marshes and prey on small terrestrial animals | - |
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| (noun) a hound that resembles a foxhound but is smaller; used to hunt rabbits | - |
| (noun) a persistent attacker | Synonyms: harasser |
| herring | (noun) commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific | Synonyms: Clupea harangus |
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| (noun) valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled | - |
| herringbone | (noun) a twilled fabric with a herringbone pattern | - |
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| (noun) a pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping the other way; it is used in weaving, masonry, parquetry, embroidery | Synonyms: herringbone pattern |
| horrible | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, ugly |
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| horribly | (adverb) of a dreadful kind | Synonyms: awfully, dreadfully |
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| horrid | (adjective) exceedingly bad | - |
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| (adjective) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror | Synonyms: hideous, horrific, outrageous |
| horridly | (adverb) in a hideous manner | Synonyms: hideously, monstrously |
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| horridness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: awfulness, dreadfulness, terribleness |
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| horrific | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, terrible |
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| (adjective) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror | Synonyms: hideous, horrid, outrageous |
| horrified | (adjective) stricken with horror | Synonyms: horror-stricken, horror-struck |
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| horrify | (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, appall, dismay |
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| horrifying | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: atrocious, frightful, horrible, ugly |
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| horrifyingly | (adverb) in a horrifying manner | - |
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| horripilate | (verb) cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps | - |
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| (verb) have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps | - |
| horripilation | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, goosebump, gooseflesh, pilomotor reflex |
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| hurricane | (noun) a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale) | - |
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| hurridly | (adverb) on the run or in a hurry | Synonyms: on the fly |
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| hurried | (adjective) moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste | - |
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| hurriedly | (adverb) in a hurried or hasty manner | Synonyms: hastily, in haste |
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| hurriedness | (noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: haste, hastiness, hurry, precipitation |
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| incorrigible | (adjective) impervious to correction by punishment | - |
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| (adjective) difficult or impossible to manage or control | - |
| incorrigibly | (adverb) in an incorrigible manner | - |
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| incurring | (noun) acquiring or coming into something (usually undesirable) | - |
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| inmarriage | (noun) marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law | Synonyms: endogamy, intermarriage |
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| intermarriage | (noun) marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law | Synonyms: endogamy, inmarriage |
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| (noun) marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law | Synonyms: exogamy |
| irridenta | (noun) a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another | Synonyms: irredenta |
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| irridentism | (noun) the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related | Synonyms: irredentism |
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| irridentist | (noun) an advocate of irredentism | Synonyms: irredentist |
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| irrigate | (verb) supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting | - |
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| (verb) supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams | Synonyms: water |
| irrigation | (noun) supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc | - |
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| (noun) (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution | - |
| irritability | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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| (noun) excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part | Synonyms: excitability |
| (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance |
| irritable | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| (adjective) capable of responding to stimuli | Synonyms: excitable |
| (adjective) abnormally sensitive to a stimulus | - |
| irritably | (adverb) in an irritable manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a petulant manner | Synonyms: pettishly, petulantly, testily |
| irritant | (noun) something that causes irritation and annoyance | Synonyms: thorn |
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| irritate | (verb) excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame | - |
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| (verb) excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| irritated | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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| irritating | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritative |
| (adjective) causing physical discomfort | Synonyms: painful |
| irritatingly | (adverb) in an irritating manner | - |
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| irritation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: aggravation, provocation |
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| (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoyance, annoying, vexation |
| (noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: discomfort, soreness |
| (noun) a sudden outburst of anger | Synonyms: pique, temper |
| (noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, vexation |
| (noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: excitation, innervation |
| (noun) (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation | - |