Awaken vs Irritate - What's the difference?
awaken | irritate | Related terms |
To cause to become awake.
To cause to become conscious.
To stop sleeping.
(lb) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
(lb) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
(lb) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
(lb) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
(lb) To render null and void.
:(Archbishop Bramhall)
Awaken is a related term of irritate.
As verbs the difference between awaken and irritate
is that awaken is to cause to become awake while irritate is (lb) to provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.awaken
English
Verb
- She awakened him by ringing the bell.
- How to awaken your brain?
- How to awaken your entrepreneurial spirit?
- We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.
- Each morning he awakens with a smile in his face.