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verb
To sign an item on a list with a tick mark, especially as a signal that the item has been verified or completed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, sometimes
Synonyms: check off
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To list (create or recite a list).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: enumerate, recite
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To annoy, aggravate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, transitive
Synonyms: bug, irk, aggravate, annoy, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, antagonize, bother, disgruntle, botherate, get, grate, burn up, bedevil, cheese off, devil, exasperate, frustrate, get up, grotch, hack off, hassle, irritate, jazz, molest, mommick, nark, nerve, pee off, peeve, peeve off, persecute, pique, piss off, provoke, rile, rile up, roil, storm, test someone's patience, tick off, trouble, try one's patience, vex, wind up, Idioms:, boil someone's piss, chap someone's hide, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get under someone's skin, give someone the shits, grind one's gears, harsh one's mellow, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle someone's feathers, tee off, torque off
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To reprimand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, UK, transitive
Qualifier: historically US
Synonyms: admonish, tell off, animadvert, bash, bawl out, slash, lash, blame, scorch, blast, berate, berisp, castigate, censure, charge, chastise, chew out, chide, condemn, criticize, denounce, denunciate, deprecate, derogate, dispraise, drag, dress down, eat someone alive, excoriate, find fault, fulminate, get at, get down, get up, give somebody a piece of one's mind, give somebody what-for, inveigh, lace into, lambaste, lay into, lecture, light into, objurgate, pooh-pooh, put someone on blast, rate, read somebody the riot act, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, rip into, rubbish, savage, scold, skewer, slam, slate, tear into, threap, tick off, tosh, keelhaul, upbraid, vilify, vituperate
Antonyms: none provided
verb
put a check mark on or near or next to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: check, check off, mark, mark off, tick
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: verify
Narrower terms: receipt
History
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Across languages
40 source translations are retained for this English entry.
