Sekirov Dictionary

vex

/vɛks/

verb 6
noun 1
forms 6

verb6

•
To annoy, irritate.
- Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his grades.
•
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! — 1834
•
To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
- White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars. — 1725
•
(rare) To twist, to weave.
- some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom — 1667
(no longer used) To be irritated; to fret.
•
(no longer used) To trouble aggressively, to harass.
- In that tyme Herode the kynge layed hondes on certayne of the congregaciõ, to vexe them. — 1526

noun1

(Scotland, no longer used) A trouble.

forms

vexed · vext · vexing · vexes · vexeth · vexest

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