give a hard time

Strongest matches

• bother
• irritate
• provoke

Strong matches

• bug
• dog
• exasperate
• gall
• get
• get on one's nerves
• grate
• hack
• irk
• nag
• needle
• nettle
• peeve
• pester
• pique
• tease
• vex

Weak matches

• be at
• be on the back of
• drive up the wall
• get to
• pick on

Strongest matches

• bedevil
• beleaguer
• besiege
• embarrass
• invade
• overrun
• perplex
• surround

Strong matches

• aggress
• assail
• attack
• badger
• bug
• circle
• compass
• dog
• encircle
• enclose
• encompass
• entangle
• environ
• girdle
• harass
• harry
• hassle
• infest
• nag
• nudge
• pester
• ride
• ring
• storm
• strike

Weak matches

• drive up the wall
• fall on
• fall upon
• give a bad time
• give one the business
• give the needle
• jump on one's case
• pick on
• put the squeeze on
• start in on

Strongest matches

• admonish
• berate
• blame
• castigate
• censure
• condemn
• rebuke
• reprimand
• reproach
• scold
• upbraid

Strong matches

• check
• flay
• monish
• rate
• reprehend
• reprove

Weak matches

• call down
• call on the carpet
• exprobate
• find fault
• lesson
• slap on the wrist
• speak to
• take down
• take down a peg
• talk to
• tell off
• tick off

Strong matches

• afflict
• aggrieve
• agonize
• ail
• bother
• break
• bug
• depress
• desolate
• discombobulate
• disquiet
• disturb
• dog
• eat
• get
• grieve
• harass
• harry
• hound
• hurt
• injure
• irk
• irritate
• miff
• nag
• needle
• oppress
• pain
• peeve
• perplex
• pester
• plague
• push
• rack
• sadden
• strain
• strap
• stress
• torment
• torture
• trouble
• try
• vex
• weigh
• wound

Weak matches

• be on one's case
• burn up
• do a number on
• get to
• make it tough for
• nit-pick
• pick on
• push buttons
• tick off

Strongest matches

• agitate
• annoy
• bewilder
• bother
• confuse
• disconcert
• distract
• disturb
• dumbfound
• faze
• fluster
• irk
• mortify
• perplex
• perturb
• plague
• puzzle
• rattle
• shame
• stun
• upset

Strong matches

• abash
• bug
• chagrin
• discombobulate
• discomfit
• discompose
• discountenance
• distress
• nonplus
• tease
• throw

Weak matches

• catch one short
• give a bad time
• hang up
• let down
• make a monkey of
• put in a hole
• put in a spot
• put on the spot
• put out of countenance
• show up
• throw into a tizzy

Strongest matches

• burn
• hassle
• heckle
• hound
• intimidate
• persecute
• pester
• raid
• tease
• torment

Strong matches

• annoy
• attack
• bait
• bedevil
• beleaguer
• bother
• bug
• bullyrag
• despoil
• devil
• distress
• disturb
• eat
• exasperate
• exhaust
• fatigue
• foray
• gnaw
• harry
• irk
• irritate
• macerate
• maraud
• pain
• perplex
• plague
• ride
• strain
• stress
• tire
• trouble
• try
• vex
• weary
• worry

Weak matches

• get to
• give a bad time
• jerk around
• noodge
• rattle one's cage
• work on

Weak matches

• badger
• berate
• bother
• bug
• bully
• carp
• fuss
• harass
• hector
• hound
• intimidate
• irritate
• needle
• pester
• pick on
• ride
• scold
• torment

Strong matches

• aggravate
• discombobulate
• discommode
• discompose
• disoblige
• disrupt
• disturb
• exasperate
• interfere
• irk
• meddle
• trouble
• try
• upset

Weak matches

• discomfort
• give trouble
• hang up
• make it tough
• put in a spot
• put on the spot
• put out
• put to trouble

Strongest matches

• aggravate
• disrupt
• disturb
• irk

Strong matches

• discombobulate
• discommode
• discompose
• disoblige
• exasperate
• interfere
• meddle
• try
• upset

Weak matches

• give trouble
• hang up
• make it tough
• put in a spot
• put on the spot
• put to trouble

Strongest matches

• annoy
• bother
• disturb
• gall
• inconvenience
• irritate
• peeve
• provoke
• rile
• vex

Strong matches

• abrade
• bug
• discommode
• eat
• fret
• harass
• incommode
• miff
• nettle
• rasp
• ruffle
• trouble

Weak matches

• get on nerves
• get to
• make waves
• put out

Weak matches

• annoy
• badger
• bait
• banter
• bother
• chaff
• disturb
• dog
• fool around
• goad
• harass
• josh
• lead on
• mock
• needle
• nudge
• pester
• pick on
• rag
• razz
• rib
• ride
• ridicule
• roast
• taunt

Strongest matches

• annoy
• badger
• berate
• fuss
• hector
• hound
• irk
• irritate
• pester
• scold
• tease
• torment
• vex

Strong matches

• bait
• bug
• dog
• eat
• egg
• goad
• harry
• heckle
• importune
• needle
• nudge
• plague
• prod
• provoke
• ride
• upbraid
• urge
• worry

Weak matches

• carp at
• find fault
• pick at
• take it out on
• work on

Strongest matches

• annoy
• arouse
• displease
• excite
• gall
• galvanize
• ignite
• incense
• irk
• irritate
• kindle
• offend
• rile
• stimulate
• whet

Strong matches

• absorb
• affront
• bother
• bug
• exasperate
• get
• goad
• goose
• grab
• miff
• mortify
• motivate
• move
• nettle
• peeve
• prick
• quicken
• rouse
• spur
• sting
• stir
• vex
• wound

Weak matches

• egg on
• fire up
• get a rise out of
• get under skin
• give the business
• make waves
• put out
• work up

Strongest matches

• annoy
• badger
• bother
• harass
• mock
• needle
• nudge
• pester
• pick on
• ridicule
• tantalize
• taunt
• torment

Strong matches

• bait
• banter
• bedevil
• beleaguer
• chaff
• devil
• disturb
• dog
• gibe
• gnaw
• goad
• harry
• hector
• importune
• jive
• josh
• plague
• rag
• rally
• razz
• rib
• ride
• roast
• slam
• snap
• sound
• spoof
• vex
• worry

Weak matches

• be at
• lead on
• put down
• send up
• swipe at

Strongest matches

• afflict
• annoy
• bedevil
• bother
• harass
• hound
• hurt
• irritate
• mistreat
• molest
• nag
• pester
• plague
• smite
• tease
• torture
• vex

Strong matches

• abuse
• agonize
• bait
• bone
• break
• crucify
• devil
• distress
• excruciate
• harrow
• harry
• heckle
• pain
• persecute
• provoke
• punish
• rack
• trouble
• try
• worry
• wring

Weak matches

• drive bananas
• drive up the wall
• play cat and mouse
• put through wringer
• rub salt in wound

Strongest matches

• afflict
• agitate
• annoy
• burden
• concern
• disconcert
• disturb
• irk
• irritate
• perplex
• perturb
• plague
• sadden
• strain
• torment
• upset
• vex

Strong matches

• ail
• bug
• discommode
• discompose
• disoblige
• disquiet
• distress
• fret
• grieve
• harass
• harry
• inconvenience
• pain
• pester
• spook
• stress
• try

Weak matches

• burn up
• drive up the wall
• flip out
• get to
• give a bad time
• impose on
• make a fuss
• make a scene
• make waves
• psych
• put out
• stir up

Strongest matches

• agitate
• bewilder
• dismay
• distract
• disturb
• perturb
• unnerve
• unsettle

Strong matches

• afflict
• ail
• bug
• confound
• cramp
• craze
• debilitate
• derange
• discombobulate
• discompose
• disconcert
• disquiet
• distress
• flip
• floor
• flurry
• fluster
• grieve
• incapacitate
• indispose
• pother
• rattle
• ruffle
• sicken
• spook
• turn
• unhinge

Weak matches

• egg on
• fire up
• flip out
• get to
• key up
• lay up
• make a scene
• make waves
• pick on
• psych
• rock the boat
• stir up
• throw off balance
• turn on

Strongest matches

• afflict
• agitate
• annoy
• displease
• disquiet
• disturb
• embarrass
• exasperate
• gall
• infuriate
• irk
• irritate
• offend
• peeve
• perplex
• rile
• torment

Strong matches

• abrade
• aggravate
• anger
• chafe
• depress
• eat at
• fret
• harass
• harry
• hassle
• molest
• needle
• nettle
• pester
• pique
• plague
• provoke
• rasp
• ride
• tease
• trouble
• upset
• worry

Weak matches

• be at
• get in one's hair
• get under one's skin
• give a bad time
• grate on
• put out
• tick off
• turn off