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vex

verb
/vɛks/

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin vexōbor. Old French vexerbor. Middle English vexen English vex From Middle English vexen, from Old French vexer, from Latin vexāre (“disturb, agitate, annoy”). Displaced native Old English dreċċan and gremman.

  1. derived from vexāre
  2. derived from vexer
  3. inherited from vexen

Definitions

  1. To annoy, irritate.

    • Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his grades.
    • The first thing that greets you on entering the church is a notice asking you not to vex the goat, since it renders valuable service in keeping the churchyard tidy.

  2. To cause (mental) suffering to

    To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.

    • I will not again vex her ear with words of love, however true, however deep: ours is an evil destiny, and we may not control it!
    • I vex my heart with fancies dim: ⁠He still outstript me in the race; ⁠It was but unity of place That made me dream I rank’d with him.

  3. To trouble aggressively, to harass.

    • In that tyme Herode the kynge layed hondes on certayne of the congregaciõ, to vexe them.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. To twist, to weave.

      • some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom

    2. To be irritated

      To be irritated; to fret.

      • Wake when thou would'st wake, fear nought, vex for nought

    3. To toss back and forth

      To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

      • White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars.

    4. A trouble.

    5. Initialism of Venus Express.

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Derived

vexation, vexatious, vexed, vexer, vexingly

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at vex. 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.

01vex02harass03annoy04vexation05vexing

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

5 hops · closes at vex

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA