irritate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To make someone feel slightly angry or annoyed

   It really irritates me when people are late.

2. 2
   verb

   To make a part of the body sore, painful, or inflamed

   The rough wool sweater irritated her skin.

Common collocations

• irritate the throat Verb + noun

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”).

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