Antagonise vs Annoy - What's the difference?
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To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
* Prior
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To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
To molest; to harm; to injure.
* Evelyn
A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
* 1532 (first printing), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose :
* 1870 , Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sciety and Solitude :
That which causes such a feeling.
* 1594 , William Shakespeare, King Rchard III , IV.2:
* 1872 , Robert Browning, "Fifine at the Fair, V:
Antagonise is a related term of annoy.
As verbs the difference between antagonise and annoy
is that antagonise is while annoy is to disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.As a noun annoy is
a feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.annoy
English
Verb
(en verb)- Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?
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- to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade
- tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them
Synonyms
* (to disturb or irritate) bother, bug, hassle, irritate, pester, nag, irk * See alsoAntonyms
* pleaseNoun
(en noun)- I merveyle me wonder faste / How ony man may lyve or laste / In such peyne and such brennyng, / [...] In such annoy contynuely.
- if she says he was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated, than give her a moment's annoy .
- Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, / Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy [...].
- The home far and away, the distance where lives joy, / The cure, at once and ever, of world and world's annoy [...].