transitive. Of persons (or things): To make angry; to vex, anger, irritate. = wrath, v. 2.

transitive. To anger, enrage; to offend.

transitive. To anger, offend; to provoke.

transitive. To vex, trouble, annoy, anger. Also reflexive: to be or become vexed or angry. English regional and Scottish in later use.

transitive. To make angry or wroth; reflexive to become angry.

transitive. To make (a person, etc.) irate, angry, or wroth; to move to wrath, ire, or deep resentment; to anger, enrage; to annoy, vex.

transitive (and reflexive). To make angry, enrage.

transitive. To anger, grieve, vex.

transitive. To provoke; = Latin provocare.

transitive. To set in motion, stir up. To provoke, challenge. Obsolete.

To make angry; to provoke to anger or resentment; to incense, offend. Also passive, To be angry with. Obsolete.

transitive. To provoke to anger; to make angry. Frequently in passive. Now only with explicit expression, as to move to anger: see sense 25b.

transitive. To heat, warm; to inflame (a part of the body). Also figurative: to kindle (wrath, etc.); to excite, arouse.

transitive. To go counter to, to cross; to put out of humour or temper; to irritate, anger, enrage, provoke. Scottish ? Obsolete.

transitive. To make (a person) angry, provoke (a person) to anger; to annoy, irritate, enrage, infuriate.

transitive. To make mad; to madden, make insane; †to make foolish (obsolete); †to bewilder, stupefy, daze (obsolete); to infuriate, enrage. Now…

transitive. To incite (a person or animal) to anger; to annoy, vex, irritate, or exasperate, esp. deliberately. Also used intransitively.

transitive. To rouse to wrath.

transitive. To make wroth or angry; to enrage.

To enrage.

spec. To inflame with wrath, excite or provoke to anger, make angry, enrage, exasperate. (The current sense.)

transitive. To cause (a person) to swell with vanity, pride, or self-importance, or (less commonly) with some other specified emotion, as rage…

transitive. To make angry; to provoke or rouse to anger; to anger, annoy, rile. Also in passive: to be angry. In later use chiefly with up.

To vex or provoke to anger; to spite. Obsolete.

To irritate (a person); to provoke to anger; to enrage, incense. Const. to, also to with infinitive.

= exasperate, v.

transitive. To irritate, provoke to anger. (Cf. stunt, adj. 3.)

transitive. To provoke (a person) to anger or other strong feeling; to inflame; to stimulate, enliven. Usually with up.

transitive. To throw into a fever; figurative to exasperate, incense.

transitive. To make angry.

With verbs. to putor set up the back: to arch it as angry cats do; to put oneself or another into anger; to arouse.

transitive. To annoy, make angry, vex. Cf. rile, v. 1.

transitive. To cause (a person or group of people) to feel profound indignation, anger, or shock; to offend deeply. Occasionally intransitive.

Chiefly British. to have (also get) one's monkey up and variants: to be angry. So to put a person's monkey up.

transitive. to get one's back up: to become angry or resentful. to get (a person's) back up: to make (a person) angry or resentful. Cf. back, n.1 24f.

figurative. to bring (also get) one's nap up (U.S. colloquial): to (cause one to) lose one's temper (cf. dander, n.4). Obsolete.

transitive. To provoke, annoy; to tease.

to get a person's shirt out: to cause a person to lose his or her temper. Also to get one's shirt out: to lose one's temper; to be irritable…

figurative. To rouse to intense emotion; to excite in mind or feeling; to inspire with ardour or eagerness; to inflame with rage or passion.

To generate or produce steam for mechanical purposes: said of an engine or boiler. to steam up, to turn on steam or set it working; hence figurative.

colloquial (originally English regional (Yorkshire)). to get (someone's) rag out: to make (someone) angry. to get one's rag out: to become angry.

Colloquial with up. To rouse or excite (a person), esp. to anger; to agitate, upset.

With adverbs or complement phrases. to burn up: to consume entirely by burning; figurative, to irritate, to upset, to enrage (U.S. slang.); also (U.S.…

to flip out intransitive, to lose control (originally under the influence of drugs); to go wild or crazy. Also transitive, to induce anger or a…