antagonize

Verb

• provoke the hostility of
  • "Don't antagonize your boss"
• act in opposition to
• To work against; to oppose (especially to incite a reaction).

Examples

• The other children constantly antagonized Joe to the point of tears.

Synonyms

antagonise, counteract, Idioms:, aggravate, annoy, antagonize, bedevil, boil someone's piss, bother, botherate, bug, burn up, chap someone's hide, cheese off, devil, disgruntle, exasperate, frustrate, get, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's Irish up, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get up, give someone the shits, grate, grind one's gears, grotch, hack off, harass, harsh one's mellow, hassle, irk, irritate, jazz, molest, mommick, nark, oppose, pee off, peeve, persecute, pester, pique, piss off, provoke, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rankle, rile, rile up, roil, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, sting, storm, tee off, test someone's patience, tick off, torque off, trouble, try one's patience, vex, wind up

Antonyms

appease, quell

Related Words

agitate, agonize, antagonism, antagonist, antagonizing, unantagonizing