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irritate

verb
/ˈɪɹ.ɪˌteɪt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin irritātus, perfect passive participle of irritō (“to invalidate, render void, annul”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from irritus (“invalid”), the equivalent of in- + ratus (“valid, established, fixed”).

  1. borrowed from irrītātus

Definitions

  1. To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.

    • If thou irritatest my lord, there will come to war against thee all the Getulians, Numidians, and Garamantes, Afric contains.
    • Thou scandalizest me and irritatest my nature as much as it possibly can be irritated.

  2. To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.

  3. To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To render null and void.

      • c. 1634-1661 John Bramhall, Protestants' Ordination Defended Are human laws presently superfluous, so often as they do not irritate or abrogate Divine laws ?

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Derived

abirritate, counterirritate, irritatable, irritator

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at irritate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01irritate02pain03violence04fighting05provoke06annoyed07annoyance08irritated

A definitional loop anchored at irritate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at irritate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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