annoy
verb
/əˈnɔɪ/
1 to make somebody slightly angry
SYNONYM irritate
annoy somebody
His constant joking was beginning to annoy her.
I’m sure she does it just to annoy me.
I only stay out late to annoy my parents.
it annoys somebody when…
It really annoys me when people forget to say thank you.
it annoys somebody to do something
It annoys me to see him getting ahead of me.
TOPICS Feelings B1
Collocations
adverb
intensely
really
verb + annoy
be beginning to
be starting to
phrases
do something just to annoy somebody
do something only to annoy somebody
2 ​annoy somebody to make somebody uncomfortable or unable to relax
SYNONYM bother
He swatted a fly that was annoying him.
The wasps were beginning to annoy me.
Word Origin
Middle English (in the sense ‘be hateful to’): from Old French anoier (verb), anoi (noun), based on Latin in odio in the phrase mihi in odio est ‘it is hateful to me’.
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