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IRRITATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Aroused to impatience or anger
Example:
roiled by the delay
Synonyms:
annoyed; irritated; miffed; nettled; peeved; pissed; pissed off; riled; roiled; steamed; stung
Classified under:
Similar:
displeased (not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb irritate
Context examples:
Sometimes, thickening from irritated tendons or other swelling narrows the tunnel and causes the nerve to be compressed.
(Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
Domeboro is used most often to cleanse irritated skin and soothe inflammation.
(Domeboro Solution, NCI Thesaurus)
A condition marked by headache, fever, and a stiff neck, which is caused when the meninges (three thin layers of tissue that cover and protect the brain and spinal cord) become irritated.
(Meningeal syndrome, NCI Dictionary)
The first sign is often red and irritated skin.
(Cosmetics, Food and Drug Administration)
At one moment she was softened, at another irritated; always distressed, but always steady.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
His still refusing to tell her what he had gone for was but the promotion of gaiety; a day before it might have irritated, but now it was a pleasant joke—suspected only of concealing something planned as a pleasant surprise to herself.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Lidocaine oral solution applied to specific areas in the mouth and/or throat is used to provide relief of pain and discomfort during dental procedures and due to irritated or inflamed mucous membranes of the mouth and pharynx.
(Lidocaine Oral Solution, NCI Thesaurus)
What of her anger and pent feelings, her lungs were irritated into the dry, hacking cough, and with blood-suffused face and one hand clenched against her chest, she waited for the paroxysm to pass.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
But though this behaviour assured Elinor that the conviction of this guilt WAS carried home to her mind, though she saw with satisfaction the effect of it, in her no longer avoiding Colonel Brandon when he called, in her speaking to him, even voluntarily speaking, with a kind of compassionate respect, and though she saw her spirits less violently irritated than before, she did not see her less wretched.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He had calculated on these first objections: he was not irritated by them.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
