ADV
intensely, really
The bright sunlight really irritated my eyes when I stepped outside.
slightly
easily
My little brother gets easily irritated when he's tired and hungry.
verb
To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.
If thou irritatest my lord, there will come to war against thee all the Getulians, Numidians, and Garamantes, Afric contains.
Thou scandalizest me and irritatest my nature as much as it possibly can be irritated.
To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
verb
To render null and void.
c. 1634-1661 John Bramhall, Protestants' Ordination Defended Are human laws presently superfluous, so often as they do not irritate or abrogate Divine laws ?
If thou irritatest my lord, there will come to war against thee all the Getulians, Numidians, and Garamantes, Afric contains.
WiktionaryThou scandalizest me and irritatest my nature as much as it possibly can be irritated.
WiktionaryThanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know tha
Wiktionaryc. 1634-1661 John Bramhall, Protestants' Ordination Defended Are human laws presently superfluous, so often as they do not irritate or abrogate Divine laws ?
WiktionaryThe fact seemed to irritate her husband.
Tatoeba · #47055His incompetence began to irritate everyone.
Tatoeba · #287592i Register
In some senses, irritate is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.