vex
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 3
Definition of vex
8 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To annoy, irritate.
“Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his grades.”
“The first thing that greets you on entering the church is a notice asking you not to vex the goat, since it renders valuable service in keeping the churchyard tidy.”
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verb
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(transitive)To annoy, irritate.
“Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his grades.”
“The first thing that greets you on entering the church is a notice asking you not to vex the goat, since it renders valuable service in keeping the churchyard tidy.”
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(transitive)To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
“I will not again vex her ear with words of love, however true, however deep: ours is an evil destiny, and we may not control it!”
“I vex my heart with fancies dim: He still outstript me in the race; It was but unity of place That made me dream I rank’d with him.”
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(archaic, transitive)To trouble aggressively, to harass.
“In that tyme Herode the kynge layed hondes on certayne of the congregaciõ, to vexe them.”
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(rare, transitive)To twist, to weave.
“some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom”
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(intransitive, obsolete)To be irritated; to fret.
“Wake when thou would'st wake, fear nought, vex for nought”
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(transitive)To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
“White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars.”
noun
- (Scotland, obsolete)A trouble.
name
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Venus Express.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin vexōbor. Old French vexerbor. Middle English vexen English vex From Middle English vexen, from Old French vexer, from Latin vexāre (“disturb, agitate, annoy”). Displaced native Old English dreċċan and gremman.
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