annoy

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To make someone slightly angry or impatient, especially by doing something repeatedly.

   It really annoys me when people talk loudly during a film.

From Middle English anoyen, from Old French anoier (“to bother, disturb”), from Late Latin inodiāre (“to make loathsome”), derived from Latin odium (“loathing, hatred”). Displaced native Old English dreċċan, gremman.

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