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Yexes vs Vexes - What's the difference?

yexes | vexes |

As a verb yexes

is (yex).

As an adjective vexes is

.

yexes

English

Verb

(head)
  • (yex)

    • yex

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • (archaic) Hiccup.
  • (archaic) Belch or burp.

    • Anagrams

    *

    vexes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (vex)
    • ----

    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