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Awaken vs Irritate - What's the difference?

awaken | irritate | Related terms |

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

  • To cause to become awake.
  • She awakened him by ringing the bell.
  • To cause to become conscious.
  • How to awaken your brain?
    How to awaken your entrepreneurial spirit?
    We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.
  • To stop sleeping.
  • Each morning he awakens with a smile in his face.

    Synonyms

    * awake, stir

    Antonyms

    * (stop sleeping) fall asleep

    irritate

    English

    Verb

    (irritat)
  • (lb) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
  • *
  • *: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)
  • Synonyms

    * provoke * rile

    Antonyms

    * please

    See also

    * exasperate * peeve * disturb English intransitive verbs English transitive verbs ----