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verb

Vex v. t. (past & past part. vexed; pres. part. vexing)

To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet. "White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars."

To make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to trouble; to tease. "I will not vex your souls." "Ten thousand torments vex my heart."

To twist; to weave. (R.) "Some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom."

Synonyms: See Tease.

Vex v. i. To be irritated; to fret. (R.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vex" Quotes from Famous Books

... you vex me with your babblement; I am like to think you dote in your old age. Is it not arrant folly to pretend That gods would have a thought for this dead man? Did they forsooth award him special grace, And as some benefactor ...

— The Oedipus Trilogy • Sophocles

... there is no need a pang should vex your heart— 'T is many years since fate ordained that she and I should part; To each a true, maturer love came in good time, and yet It brought not with its nobler grace the power to forget. And would you fain begrudge me now the sentimental joy ...

— Songs and Other Verse • Eugene Field

... am not saying that men should not seek to be devout, nor that they should not stand with great reverence in the presence of God, but only that they are not to vex themselves if they cannot find even one good thought, as I said in another place; [18] for we are unprofitable servants. [19] What do we think we can do? Our Lord grant that we understand this, and that we may be those little asses who drive the windlass I spoke of: [20] these, though their ...

— The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus • Teresa of Avila

... this my song fly to you: Perchance forget it came from me. It shall not vex you, shall not woo you; But in your breast ...

— Dreams and Days: Poems • George Parsons Lathrop

... conscience clear, for there would never be any more need for secrecy. The wheel of understanding between Eglington and herself had come full circle, and there was an end. But to tell the truth would be to wound her father, to vex him against Eglington even as he had never yet been vexed. Besides, it was hard, while Eglington was there, to tell what, after all, was the sole affair of her own life. In one literal sense, Eglington was not guilty of deceit. Never ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

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