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verb

Vex v. t. (past & past part. vexed; pres. part. vexing)

To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet. "White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars."

To make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to trouble; to tease. "I will not vex your souls." "Ten thousand torments vex my heart."

To twist; to weave. (R.) "Some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom."

Synonyms: See Tease.

Vex v. i. To be irritated; to fret. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Vexing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vexing" Quotes from Famous Books

... those laughs you get in Court that make you so fond of talking. Don't you see how you're vexing ...

— Five Little Plays • Alfred Sutro

... swoln features of her darling foster-child. She instantly commenced an investigation into the cause of his distress, after the usual inquisitorial manner of matrons of her class. "What is the matter wi' my bairn?" and "Wha has been vexing my bairn?" with similar questions, at last extorted ...

— The Surgeon's Daughter • Sir Walter Scott

... first fell in with "Leaves of Grass," I was taken by isolated passages scattered here and there through the poems; these I seized upon, and gave myself no concern about the rest. Single lines in it often went to the bottom of the questions that were vexing me. The following, though less here than when encountered in the frame of mind which the poet begets in you, curiously settled and stratified a certain range of ...

— Birds and Poets • John Burroughs

... did Dryden much mischief, unless they gained from his own temper the power of vexing him, which his frequent bursts of resentment give reason to suspect. He is always angry at some past, or afraid of some future censure; but he lessens the smart of his wounds by the balm of his own approbation, and endeavours to repel the shafts ...

— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson

... to meet which made you feel like a party to some hidden crime. Mr. Vane had remained for some time in happy unconsciousness of the significance of Miss Browne's oration. It was something to see it gradually penetrate to his perceptions, vexing the alabaster brow with a faint wrinkle of perplexity, then suffusing his cheeks with agonized and indignant blushes. "Oh, I say, really, you know!" hovered in unspoken protest on his tongue. He threw imploring looks at Mr. Shaw, who alone of ...

— Spanish Doubloons • Camilla Kenyon

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