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Irritates vs Irrigates - What's the difference?

irritates | irrigates |

As verbs the difference between irritates and irrigates

is that irritates is while irrigates is (irrigate).

irritates

English

Verb

(head)
  • (irritate)
  • Anagrams

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    irritate

    English

    Verb

    (irritat)
  • (lb) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
  • *
  • *: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)
  • Synonyms

    * provoke * rile

    Antonyms

    * please

    See also

    * exasperate * peeve * disturb English intransitive verbs English transitive verbs ----

    irrigates

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (irrigate)

  • irrigate

    English

    Verb

  • To supply farmland with water, by building ditches, pipes, etc.
  • To clean a wound with a fluid