Showing results for abirritate. Search instead for abirritating.

abirritate

American

[ab-ir-i-teyt] / æbˈɪr ɪˌteɪt /

verb (used with object)

Medicine/Medical.

abirritated, abirritating

to make less irritable; soothe.

abirritate British

/ æbˈɪrɪˌteɪt /

verb

obsolete (tr) med to soothe or make less irritable

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

abirritation

noun
abirritative

adjective

Etymology

Origin of abirritate

ab- + irritate

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023