Vex vs Vext - What's the difference?

vex | vext |

As verbs the difference between vex and vext

is that vex is to trouble aggressively, to harass while vext is simple past of vex.

As a noun VEX

is initialism of w:Venus Express|Venus Express|lang=en.

vex

English

Verb

(es)

To trouble aggressively, to harass.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XII:

In that tyme Herode the kynge layed hondes on certayne of the congregacion, to vexe them.

To annoy, irritate.

Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his grades.

To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.

(rare) To twist, to weave.

* Dryden

some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom

(obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.

(Chapman)

To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

* Alexander Pope

White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars.

Quotations

* (English Citations of "vex")

Synonyms

* (to annoy) agitate, irritate * (to cause mental suffering) afflict, torment

Derived terms

* vexed * vexer * vexingly * vexation * vexatious

vext

English

Verb

(head)

(archaic) (vex)

* What happiness to reign a lonely king,
Vext' — O ye stars that shudder over me,
O earth that soundest hollow under me,
'''Vext with waste dreams?
— Tennyson, ''Idylls of the King , "The Coming of Arthur"

* And that same night, the night of the new year,
By reason of the bitterness and grief
That vext his mother, all before his time
Was Arthur born [...]
— Tennyson, Idylls of the King , "The Coming of Arthur"

* [...] and thence
Taking my war-horse from the holy man,
Glad that no phantom vext me more, return'd
To whence I came, the gate of Arthur's wars.
— Tennyson, Idylls of the King , "Holy Grail"

English irregular simple past forms