Irritate vs Browbeat - What's the difference?
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(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)
To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.
Irritate is a related term of browbeat.
As verbs the difference between irritate and browbeat
is that irritate is (lb) to provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure while browbeat is to bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.irritate
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Verb
(irritat)Synonyms
* provoke * rileAntonyms
* pleasebrowbeat
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Alternative forms
* brow-beatVerb
- Though the teacher browbeat all the children, they still acted out during the lesson.