irritate

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in. transitive
    — If thou irritatest my lord, there will come to war against thee all the Getulians, Numidians, and Garamantes, Afric contains.
  2. To render null and void. obsolete,transitive
    — c. 1634-1661 John Bramhall, Protestants' Ordination Defended Are human laws presently superfluous, so often as they do not irritate or abrogate Divine laws ?
  3. To cause or induce displeasure or irritation. intransitive
  4. To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism). transitive

词形变化

irritates present,singular,third-person irritating participle,present irritated participle,past irritated past irritates present,singular,third-person irritating participle,present irritated participle,past irritated past

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Latin irrītātus, perfect passive participle of irrītō (“excite, irritate, incite, stimulate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
词源 2
Borrowed from Latin irritātus, perfect passive participle of irritō (“to invalidate, render void, annul”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from irritus (“invalid”), the equivalent of in- + ratus (“valid, established, fixed”).
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