Irritate vs Argue - What's the difference?
irritate | argue |
(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)
(obsolete) To prove.
To shows grounds for concluding ((that)); to indicate, imply.
* 1910 , , "The Soul of Laploshka", Reginald in Russia :
To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints.
To have an argument, a quarrel.
To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).
As verbs the difference between irritate and argue
is that irritate is (lb) to provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure while argue is .irritate
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(irritat)Synonyms
* provoke * rileAntonyms
* pleaseargue
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(argu)- To have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I was not capable.
- He also argued for stronger methods to be used against China.
- He argued as follows: America should stop Lend-Lease convoying, because it needs to fortify its own Army with the supplies.
- The two boys argued because of disagreement about the science project.
- He argued his point.
- He argued that America should stop Lend-Lease convoying because it needed to fortify its own Army with the supplies.