Irritate vs Irk - What's the difference?
irritate | irk |
(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 irritate; annoy; bother
As verbs the difference between irritate and irk
is that irritate is to provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure while irk is to irritate; annoy; bother.irritate
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(irritat)Synonyms
* provoke * rileAntonyms
* pleaseirk
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(en verb)- It irks me to do all this work and have someone destroy it.