Irritate vs Intimidate - 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 make timid or fearful; to inspire or affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.
To impress, amaze, excite or induce extraordinary affection in others toward oneself.
In transitive terms the difference between irritate and intimidate
is that irritate is to induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism) while intimidate is to impress, amaze, excite or induce extraordinary affection in others toward oneself.irritate
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(irritat)Synonyms
* provoke * rileAntonyms
* pleaseintimidate
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(intimidat)- He's trying to intimidate you. If you ignore him, hopefully he'll stop.