irritate
verb (used with object)
to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
irritates
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present tense formof irritate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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While some men’s inability to see a queer relationship right before their eyes irritates Rosales, she uses these opportunities to clown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
But when it goes away, so do our nightly doses of Colbert’s affable clowning, the kind that irritates thin-skinned despots in a way other comics can’t quite match.
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
"You think - is this is how people are perceiving us? When they say nasty things about him or call me a gold-digger, it irritates me."
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025
‘How do you come up with things to write about?” a young George Will once asked William F. Buckley Jr. That’s easy, said the National Review founder, “the world irritates me three times a week.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
“This guy just irritates me. So he slays giants...who doesn’t?”
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
