Irritate

Synonyms: Annoy, make angry, anger, bother, gall, put out, get/put someone's back up, get on someone's nerves, try someone's patience, ruffle someone's feathers, raise someone's hackles, infuriate, incense, drive to distraction, provoke, peeve, miff, nettle, get, bug, get under someone's skin, get someone's goat, get someone's dander up, drive round the bend, drive bananas, wind up, get across, drive round the twist, give someone the hump, tick off, rankle, gravel, get on someone's tits, give someone the pip, hump, annoyed, angry, exasperated, piqued, fed up, in a bad mood, testy, huffy, resentful, furious, infuriated, enraged, choleric, peeved, miffed, mad, hacked off, hot under the collar, browned off, brassed off, narked, shirty, teed off, sore, snaky, ireful, wrath, vex, make cross, exasperate, irk, pique, displease, antagonize, rub up the wrong way, ruffle, make someone's hackles rise, enrage, madden, make someone's blood boil, goad, aggravate, hassle, rile, needle, get to, hack off, get in someone's hair, rattle someone's cage, drive mad/crazy, drive up the wall, make someone see red, nark, get on someone's wick, get up someone's nose, tee off, burn up, ride, bum out, rark, exacerbate, rasp, cross, vexed, irked, displeased, disgruntled, in a temper, in high dudgeon, in a huff, aggrieved, irate, incensed, wrathful, aggravated, nettled, miffy, riled, peed off, foaming at the mouth, cheesed off, not best pleased, ratty, eggy, ticked off, bent out of shape, crook, and snuffy.

Synonyms: Inflame, hurt, chafe, fret, rub painfully, scratch, scrape, grate, aggravate, pain, abrade, gall, rub against, rasp, graze, and excoriate.