It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care nought about it.
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Vex
//vɛks//
Synonyms for "vex" (231 found)
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Verb(69 words)
get someone's dander upget someone's goatget someone's irish upget someone's nannyget someone's nanny-goatget toget under one's goatget under someone's goatget under someone's skinget upgive someone griefgive someone the shitsgrategravelgriefgrind one's gearsgrotchhack offharrowharsh one's mellow
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3 entriescoordinate
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5 entrieshas context
2 entriesmanner of
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8 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
71 translations across 28 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀνιάω verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
Bulgarian
2 entries- дразня verb (rare, archaic: to trouble aggressively)
- ядосвам verb (to annoy)
Cornish
1 entries- veksya verb (to annoy)
Czech
2 entries- otravovat verb (to annoy)
- trápit verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
Dutch
2 entries- ergeren verb (to annoy)
- kwellen verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
Esperanto
1 entries- ĉagreni verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
Finnish
3 entries- kiusata verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
- vaivata verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
- ärsyttää verb (to annoy)
French
4 entries- ennuyer verb (to annoy)
- tourmenter verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
- vexer verb (rare, archaic: to trouble aggressively)
- vexer informal verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
Georgian
2 entries- აღელვება verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
- გაღიზიანება verb (to annoy)
German
4 entries- beunruhigen verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
- irritieren verb (to annoy)
- quälen verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
- reizen verb (to annoy)
Hindi
1 entries- परेशान करना verb (to annoy)
Hungarian
2 entries- piszkál verb (to annoy)
- vegzál verb (to annoy)
Ido
1 entries- iracigar verb (to annoy)
Irish
1 entries- buair verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
Italian
4 entries- infastidire verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
- innervosire verb (to annoy)
- tormentare verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
- vessare verb (to annoy)
Latin
3 entries- piget verb (to annoy)
- taedet verb (to annoy)
- vexō verb (to annoy)
Māori
1 entries- hawene verb (to annoy)
Old English
2 entries- dreċċan verb (to annoy)
- gremman verb (to annoy)
Persian
2 entries- آزردن verb (to annoy)
- رنجاندن verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
Polish
3 entries- denerwować verb (to annoy)
- gnębić verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
- niepokoić verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
Portuguese
4 entries- aborrecer verb (to annoy)
- irritar verb (to annoy)
- tormentar verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
- vexar verb (to annoy)
Quechua
1 entries- ch'iqmichiy verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
Romanian
1 entries- vexa verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
Russian
3 entries- волнова́ть verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
- досажда́ть verb (to annoy)
- раздража́ть verb (to annoy)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- sàraich verb (to annoy)
- sàraich verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
Spanish
4 entries- afligir verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
- atormentar verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
- disgustar verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
- fastidiar verb (rare, archaic: to trouble aggressively)
Swedish
2 entries- förarga verb (to annoy)
- irritera verb (to annoy)
Turkish
2 entries- kızdırmak verb (to annoy)
- rahatsız etmek verb (to distress; to cause mental suffering)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Vex not too far the lion, chained though he be.
Source: tatoeba (2931038)
It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.
Source: tatoeba (6203130)
And lifting on the shore / his hands, Anchises doth the gods adore. / "O Heaven!" he cries, "avert these threats; be kind / and stay the curse, and vex with plagues no more / a pious folk."
Source: tatoeba (7022348)
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