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(transitive, slang, neologism) To cause (someone) to lose their job by making an accusation of sexual harassment, as part of the #MeToo movement.
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To express one's feelings through disruptive actions.
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(now chiefly colloquial) To exasperate; to provoke or irritate.
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(transitive) To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person).
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(transitive, obsolete) To irritate; grill; vex; annoy.
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(obsolete) To avenge, take vengeance on.
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Alternative form of backbite [To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.]
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(transitive) To create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc.
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(transitive, rare) To regard as a bagatelle; to play down, trivialize or belittle.
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(transitive) To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
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(obsolete, idiomatic) To be bothered; to make the effort to do something.
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To vex, harass, or beset.
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(transitive, obsolete) To call (someone) a lout.
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(obsolete, transitive) To censure; reprove.
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(transitive) To do violence to; violate.
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(obsolete) Argument, bickering.
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(transitive) To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.
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A tedious person; a person who bores others; a bore.
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(transitive, slang) To provoke (a person) for one's own amusement.
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To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
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To disrespect someone, especially by ignoring them.
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(obsolete, rare) To disturb or agitate, to disrupt also in the positive sense, to put into (more) commotion, to stir up, to add to the activity of.
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(intransitive, dated, British slang) To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
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(obsolete, transitive) To deceive; to trick.
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(obsolete) Act of digladiating; violent dispute or combat.
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(transitive) To make crazy or insane; to drive to distraction.
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(law) To behave in an inappropriately violent, noisy, or disruptive manner in public.
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(idiomatic) To harm, to injure.
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To make a situation worse, usually while trying to make it better.
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(transitive) To vex; grill; trouble; oppress.
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(obsolete) Mean labour; toil.
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(transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
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(obsolete) To demand something urgently
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(informal) To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found in the phrase um and er.
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To experience a difficult period, especially financially.
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(obsolete) To subject to some harmful scheme; to ‘do in’.
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(obsolete) A rush, impetus, or violent movement.
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(obsolete, rare) Anger; gall; melancholy.
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(idiomatic, colloquial) To annoy, or displease, by taunting, or by excessive nagging.
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(transitive, obsolete) To irk; weary.
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(intransitive) To go wrong or become defective.
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(intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
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(figuratively) To harshly criticize someone.
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(transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
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(transitive) To irritate or annoy.
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(obsolete) Often followed by out: to fatigue or tire (someone) with exhausting and repeated efforts.
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(transitive) To break or tear, as if with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.
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(idiomatic) To have become very frustrated or angry; to have reached the limit of one's patience or forbearance.
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To be the object of ridicule, rebuke, critique, etc.
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(transitive) To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.
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Alternative form of hard hit [In severe difficulties; greatly affected by a problem.]
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To treat someone badly, cruelly or unkindly.
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(transitive) to irritate; annoy; bother
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(transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.
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(intransitive, figuratively) Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.
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(transitive, idiomatic) To astonish; to stagger or overwhelm; to confuse or disorient.
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(transitive, figuratively) To hurl insults at.
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(formal) An inadvertent remark; slip of the tongue.
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(idiomatic) To worsen an already difficult situation or unfavourable set of circumstances, typically by acting rashly, foolishly, or incompetently.
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(transitive) To menace through intimidating tactics; to intimidate, harass; to terrorize.
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(now rare) Conflict, struggle.
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(transitive) To rebuke or scold strongly.
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An exhibition of temper.
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(transitive) To overcome or overwhelm by haughty disregard; defy; scorn or despise.
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(transitive) To surpass in smiling.
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(transitive, informal) To surpass in stupidity.
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(transitive) To grieve or mourn for.
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To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.
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(idiomatic) A situation in which somebody comments on or accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares.
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One who causes unrest; one who stirs the pot.
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(transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
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(transitive, informal) To unnerve.
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(intransitive, slang, by extension) To quit (something) in anger.
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(transitive) To berate, scold.
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(transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To drive into a state of excitement; fire with enthusiasm.
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To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
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(transitive, intransitive) To rebuke angrily.
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(intransitive) To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
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(transitive, informal) To upset or distress (a person).
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Something that disrupts smooth operation or functioning; used especially in phrases such as throw a spanner in the works, put a spanner in the works etc.
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To speak in a language unknown to the speaker, especially when in a state of religious ecstasy; glossolalia.
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(slang) A person who spreads rumours or causes agitation.
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(transitive) To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise.
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to speak insultingly about someone
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(idiomatic) To return disrespect.
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(transitive) To speak to another person in a demeaning or patronizing way.
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To speak with little regard to accuracy.
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(US) To talk aggressively or boisterously.
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(obsolete) To incite; to provoke; to spur on.
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(transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
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To coerce (someone) by using threats or violence.
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(figuratively) To make derogatory or malicious allegations, particularly about people in public life.
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(archaic) To be excited or heartened.
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(dialectal or obsolete) Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
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(idiomatic) To treat someone badly, especially with disrespect or contempt.
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(obsolete) To treat with contempt.
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(automobile insurance) An overturn.
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Alternative form of upset the applecart [(idiomatic) To disorganize or spoil something, especially an established arrangement or plan.]
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(idiomatic) To disorganize or spoil something, especially an established arrangement or plan.
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The act of something being upset or overturned.
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(nonstandard) To subject to violence.
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(obsolete) To vociferate.
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(transitive) To irritate.
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(figuratively) Something that causes pain, hardship, or exertion; an ordeal.
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(intransitive, UK dialectal) To magnify greatly in narration; exaggerate a tale; fib.
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