annoy
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /əˈnɔɪ/
annoy (annoys, present participle annoying; past and past participle annoyed)
- (transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
- Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?
- Marc loved his sister, but when she annoyed him he wanted to switch her off.
- (intransitive) To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
- (transitive) To molest; to harm; to injure.
- to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade
- tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them
- please
- See also Thesaurus:annoy
- French: gêner, ennuyer, embêter, agacer, asticoter
- German: stören, ärgern, belästigen, nerven, verägern, verdrießen, aufregen, vergrätzen, erregen, krank machen, auf die Nerven gehen, belästigen, verstimmen, quälen, plagen, anzipfen, enervieren, irritieren, reizen, fuchsen
- Italian: infastidirsi, infastidire, importunare, disturbare, irritare
- Portuguese: irritar
- Russian: надоеда́ть
- Spanish: molestar, agobiar, jorobar
- German: ärgern, stören, nerven, auf die Nerven gehen, irritieren, reizen
- Italian: irritare, seccare, rompere
- Portuguese: aborrecer
- German: schaden, schädigen, molestieren, belästigen
- Italian: molestare, nuocere
annoy (plural annoys)
- (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.
- c. 1610, John Fletcher, “Sleep” ↗:
- We that suffer long annoy / Are contented with a thought / Through an idle fancy wrought: / O let my joys have some abiding!
- 1532 (first printing), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose:
- (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 world's annoy [...].
- 1594, William Shakespeare, King Rchard III, IV.2:
- (both senses) annoyance
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