annoy

annoy

annoy (third-person singular simple present annoys, present participle annoying, simple past and past participle annoyed)

1. (transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

   Marc loved his sister, but when she annoyed him he wanted to switch her off.

2. (intransitive) To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.

   Connie liked to annoy her brother by using him as a leg rest.

3. (transitive) To molest; to harm; to injure.

annoy (plural annoys)

1. (now rare, literary) A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
   • 1532 (first printing), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose:

     I merveyle me wonder faste / How ony man may lyve or laste / In such peyne and such brennyng, / [...] In such annoy contynuely.

   • 1870, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sciety and Solitude:

     if she says he was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated, than give her a moments annoy.

2. (now rare, literary) That which causes such a feeling.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, King Rchard III, IV.2:

     Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, / Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy [...].

   • 1872, Robert Browning, ""Fifine at the Fair, V:

     The home far and away, the distance where lives joy, / The cure, at once and ever, of world and worlds annoy [...].

	infastidire
	to disturb or irritate
	To make someone rather angry or impatient.

	irritare
	to do something to upset or anger someone

	molestare
	to molest; to harm; to injure

	infastidirsi
	to disturb or irritate

	seccare
	to do something to upset or anger someone

disturbare

	importunare
	to disturb or irritate

	nuocere
	to molest; to harm; to injure

agitare

annoiare

arrabiare

disgustare

eccitare

incitare

indispettire

innervosire

scocciare

spronare

stancare

tediare

tempestare

urtare

Altri significati:

(now rare, literary) That which causes such a feeling.

(intransitive) To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.

(transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

(transitive) To molest; to harm; to injure.

(now rare, literary) A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.

Traduzione 'veloce'

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