annoy

To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

Marc loved his sister, but when she annoyed him he wanted to switch her off.

Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, / This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; / Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, / Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'r enjoys.

To molest; to harm; to injure.

to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade

tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them

A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.

VVe that ſuffer long anoy / Are contented vvith a thought / Through an idle fancie vvrought / O let my ioyes have ſome abiding.

[I]f she says he was defeated, why he had better, a great deal, have been defeated, than give her a moment's annoy.

That which causes such a feeling.

Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, / Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy […]

The home far and away, the distance where lives joy, / The cure, at once and ever, of world and world's annoy; […]