(v. t.) To increase the action or violence of; to heighten excitement in; to intensify; to stimulate.
(v. t.) To excite anger or displeasure in; to provoke; to tease; to exasperate; to annoy; to vex; as, the insolence of a tyrant irritates his subjects.
(v. t.) To produce irritation in; to stimulate; to cause to contract. See Irritation, n., 2.
(n.) To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage.
(a.) Excited; heightened.
Example Sentences:
(1) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
(2) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
(3) It was shown that the antibiotic had low acute toxicity, did not cumulate and had no skin-irritating effect.
(4) Inhibition of binding of [3H]TPA to the receptor preparation by tigliane and ingenane DTE correlates with irritant activity in vivo, while some daphnane and 1 alpha-alkyldaphnane DTE inhibit binding of [3H]TPA in a less pronounced manner but still are very irritant.
(5) Exposure to irritants was also more common among the asthmatics than the nonasthmatics with similar exposure to organic allergens (P = 0.004).
(6) The purpose of this study was to develop a new model for the induction of chronic irritant contact dermatitis, which would reflect well the conditions of daily practice.
(7) The drug I started taking caused an irritating, chronic cough, which disappeared when I switched to an inexpensive diuretic.
(8) These injections led to epidermal hyperplasia in areas overlying the irritant and the effect was most significant when the irritant was placed in the upper dermis.
(9) Two children required lidocaine therapy for cardiac irritability manifesting as multifocal PVCs and ventricular tachycardia.
(10) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
(11) The dietary fibre intake of 25 patients with the irritable bowel syndrome was assessed by dietary recall over one week for the period before onset of symptoms, at diagnosis and after six months treatment with bran and a fibre-rich diet, and compared with controls matched for age and sex.
(12) A case of epidermoid tumor of the sacral area with S3 root irritation resulting in bladder dysfunction is presented and its possible relationship to spinal puncture is discussed.
(13) The present study did not identify any baseline parameters such as initial prostate volume, peak flow rates, or obstructive or irritative symptom scores that correlated with clinical outcome.
(14) Scores on the "dependent smoking" subscale of the smoking motivation questionnaire correlated significantly with overall withdrawal severity, craving, and increased irritability.
(15) The airways can be affected by inflammation, can be targets of infection, and can respond to chemical irritants with bronchoconstrictive responses.
(16) Some pulp irritation can occur if deep restorations are not placed over a protective film.
(17) MIDAZOLAM IS SUPERIOR TO DIAZEPAM IN CERTAIN WAYS: it has a more rapid onset; produces greater anterograde amnesia, less postoperative drowsiness, less venous irritation and less likelihood of thrombophlebitis development.
(18) Primary invasive adenocarcinoma of the bladder was diagnosed in a fifty-two-year-old male with a two-month history of irritative voiding symptoms.
(19) We studied seventy patients, 23 males and 47 females with irritable bowel syndrome in adolescence aged 13-19 yrs, who visited the department of psychosomatic medicine in Takano Hospital during about six year period of April, 1986-July, 1992.
(20) The study suggested that 1) diabetes and "prediabetes" produce significant changes in levels of chondroitin 4, 6, and dermatan sulfates within alveolar bone, 2) in "prediabetic" animals, interdental bone loss occurs prior to the onset of clinical symptoms and in the absence of local irritating factors, the bone height appears to return to normal levels, and 3) there may be a correlation between alveolar bone height and relative levels of dermatan sulfate.
Jangle
Definition:
(v. i.) To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune.
(v. i.) To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip.
(v. i.) To quarrel in words; to altercate; to wrangle.
(v. t.) To cause to sound harshly or inharmoniously; to produce discordant sounds with.
(n.) Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble.
(n.) Discordant sound; wrangling.
Example Sentences:
(1) My dear stoic father, honest as the days are long, was looking, for once in his life, thoroughly jangled, and I kept wanting to impart upon him mentally the wise words of Grandpa Abe Simpson : "They say the greatest tragedy is when a father outlives his son.
(2) However, I haven't forgotten gasping for a cigarette and being unable to have one – that vicious clawing from my chest to my throat, the jangling of nerves and shortening of temper.
(3) Our destiny is in our own hands and hopefully we won’t jangle the nerves any longer than we need to.
(4) Collars upturned, gold chains jangling, Kyrgios got his serve back and perhaps sensed a comeback to match last year’s record-breaking effort when he recovered from two sets down as a 19-year-old wildcard.
(5) They began to put more pressure on the Poles, whose nerves jangled.
(6) Grazing cows jangled their bells, farmers continued to plough the slopes, while keeping closely aware of shudders and tremors.
(7) The way that one’s listening habits are monitored and then turned into recommendations jangled his East German nerves.
(8) In other words, Ukip's success is manifested not just in byelection results and column inches devoted to the party itself, but in the sense that, with both jangled nerves and a palpable relief, the Conservatives are reverting to type.
(9) Lucy says she was marched through the hospital reception "jangling like Marley's ghost", and the officers did all the talking.
(10) Spurs jangling and lances poised, the coalition partners are off, tilting at each other for the delectation of their party conferences.
(11) At the beginning of this process, editors remove the audio recordings taken during filming and break down each scene into four sonic elements: dialogue, effects, music and Foley, which is the term for everyday sounds such as squeaky shoes or cutlery jangling in a drawer.
(12) With the scoreline at 3-2, for example, and the nerves jangling, he brought on two attack-minded players – Tomas Rosicky and Lukas Podolski – in the 83rd minute.
(13) This was yet another occasion when Arsenal's nerves jangled and there was the collective offering-up of prayers from the home seats when Wilfried Bony flexed those mighty neck muscles to thump an early header down and into the near corner of the net.
(14) Brought in at the instigation of the new chief executive, David Abraham, with the promise to refashion Channel 4 , the Big Brother-shaped hole in her schedule has set nerves jangling.
(15) I would hear the jangling of keys and think that this was the time the prison officers were going to come and open the cell door and set us free.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Australia claimed their ticket to Brazil but fans' nerves were kept jangling in a manner befitting of the Socceroos' often tortured World Cup history.
(17) 1970s: Dancing in Your Head Facebook Twitter Pinterest In the 1970s, the restless contrarian decided to unleash a whole new jangle of startling sounds – electric ones this time.
(18) The Tory leadership duly poured cold water on his suggestion, but the underlying thinking was hardly revelatory: Ukip's rise is jangling Tory nerves, and with good reason.
(19) September 9, 2015 If that message weren’t quite clear enough, the jangle-pop indie band had already posted an official collective statement on Facebook before releasing Stipe’s unfiltered opinion: While we do not authorize or condone the use of our music at this political event, and do ask that these candidates cease and desist from doing so, let us remember that there are things of greater importance at stake here.
(20) Given the way Derby County threw away promotion from a seemingly unassailable position last season, nerves may be jangling after their fourth league game without a win, a limp 3-0 home defeat to Birmingham City .