VEX

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Latin vexōbor.

Old French vexerbor.

Middle English vexen

English vex

From Middle English vexen, from Old French vexer, from Latin vexāre (“disturb, agitate, annoy”). Displaced native Old English dreċċan and gremman.

transitive To annoy, irritate. Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his grades.
transitive To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress. I will not again vex her ear with words of love, however true, however deep: ours is an evil destiny, and we may not control it!
archaic, transitive To trouble aggressively, to harass. In that tyme Herode the kynge layed hondes on certayne of the congregaciõ, to vexe them.
rare, transitive To twist, to weave. some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom
intransitive, obsolete To be irritated; to fret. Wake when thou would'st wake, fear nought, vex for nought
transitive To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet. White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars.