aggravate vs gall

aggravate

verb
  • To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness. 

  • To exasperate; to provoke or irritate. 

  • To make worse; to exacerbate. 

gall

verb
  • To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury. 

  • To scoff; to jeer. 

  • To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing. 

  • To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point. 

  • To exasperate. 

  • To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin. 

  • To bother or trouble. 

noun
  • Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah. 

  • A feeling of exasperation. 

  • The gall bladder. 

  • A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point. 

  • A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore. 

  • A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii. 

  • A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall. 

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