Verb

(en verb)

To cause an intense dislike for something.

It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.

* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V

It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust . There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.

Verb

(en verb)

To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

* Prior

Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?

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To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.

To molest; to harm; to injure.

to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade

* Evelyn

tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them