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Hello, dear readers! Here I am with another bunch of synonyms for you. In this post, I will share a selection of verbs with the meaning of making someone annoyed or angry.

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And now to the post! And as always I encourage you to look for more authentic context with the words in the list to improve your own command of the words in it.

to peeve – to annoy
It peeves me that it is raining the whole weekend.
Helen was peeved by her sister's request to pick up a delivery for her from the post office.
Some people's egotistical behaviour can peeve you a lot.

to annoy – to get on someone's nerves up to an extent of making them angry
Sara gets annoyed when mosquitoes start buzzing over her ear in the night, interrupting her sleep.
It annoys me when people are coughing en masse during spectacles in theatres.
It annoys Tom when someone is answering a call during a showing in the cinema.

to irk – to make someone feel annoyed
His arrogance irks me.
Denis was feeling nervous about the approaching exam, and his self-centred behavior irked his mother when she needed his help.
The need to postpone his meetup with friends because of the sudden change in his work schedule irked him.

to irritate – to make someone lose temper
It was the offhand, unimportant manner it had been done that irritated him. (Harry Harrison – Deathworld)
He brimmed with enthusiasms and self-confidence and issued pronouncements on all sorts of subjects, which amused some of the Rhodes scholars and irritated others. (The New Yorker)

to bother – to annoy or cause problems for someone
The boy did not want to bother his father with questions about his homework because he looked tired after a day at work.
They thought they could live happily in a bungalo away from civilisation without being bothered by city chaos.
The news about a prison break bothered the citizens.

to pester – to annoy someone by repetitively asking the same thing
John has been pestering her to go out with him all month. (Cambridge Dictionary)
Baggers were pestering tourists for coins at the railway hub.
Kevin was pestering his mates to lend him some money to pay back what he owed to his boss.