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   An·noy

   /əˈnoi/

   

   verb

   • 1. irritate (someone); make (someone) a little angry: "your damned cheerfulness has always annoyed me"
   • ▪ harm or attack repeatedly: "a gallant Saxon, who annoyed this Coast"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘be hateful to’): from Old French anoier (verb), anoi (noun), based on Latin in odio in the phrase mihi in odio est ‘it is hateful to me’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. annoyer noun

   Scrabble Points: 8

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   What does annoy mean?

   • Someone or something that annoys you can be described as annoying. Someone or something that annoys you can be called an annoyance. Less commonly, annoy means to harass. In this case, the results are more serious than the more common meaning of annoy. Example: Mom, Jeff is trying to annoy me again! He keeps humming! Where does annoy come from?

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   How do you describe annoyance in a sentence?

   • annoy He asked her to move more quickly, which annoyed her. irritate I'm the only one who talks to him, and that irritates me. frustrate It really frustrates me that I can't do things for myself. I know you’re doing this only to annoy me. [ U ] As soon as he saw me, a look of annoyance crossed his face.

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   What is the present participle of annoy?

   • The present participle of annoy. Someone or something that annoys is annoying . He is so annoying! The noise from that radiator is annoying. This page was last edited on 23 April 2017, at 11:16. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details.

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   What does it mean if someone annoys you a lot?

   • The word implies that the resulting irritation does not rise to the level of serious harm or a major problem—even if someone or something annoys you very much. People usually annoy through some kind of irritating and unwanted behavior (especially when it’s repeated), such as chewing too loudly or asking you the same question over and over again.

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   annoy: 1 v cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations Synonyms: bother , chafe , devil , get at , get to , gravel , irritate , nark , nettle , rag , rile , vex chafe feel extreme irritation or anger Types: show 10 types... hide 10 types... get , get under one's skin irritate eat into , fret , grate , rankle gnaw into; make ...

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