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discomfiting making somebody's hackles rise biting causing suffering to gnawing at nagging at making it hot for someone bumming out getting across giving someone the hump making someone see red lying heavy on weighing heavily on getting your back up appalling rankling with weighing on tyrannizing over getting under your skin blighting keeping at bedogging petitioning soliciting showing antagonism to disapproving of harping on prompting feeling ill will towards showing ill will towards pushing about bearing a grudge towards giving someone hell chiding guying obsessing stressing out mocking caviling cavilling scorning bullyragging despoiling burning macerating foraying noodging grinding egging on jerking around inflicting pain on inflicting suffering on burdening belabouring rattling one's cage wringing boning smiting razzing possessing getting your hackles up getting your dander up making your blood boil ruffling one's feathers trying your patience getting up someone's nose buttonholing 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smothering walking all over ruling over trampling overloading taxing putting upon inconveniencing insulting scaring boring impeding crossing hindering imposing on

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