deviled

verb

variants or devilled
Definition of devilednext
past tense of devil
as in grated

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deviled
  1. aggravated
  2. exasperated
  3. bedeviled
  4. annoyed
  5. riled
  6. vexed
  7. worried
  8. put out
Verb
  • Edman opened the playoffs in center field but moved to shortstop in the third game of the NL Division Series against San Diego, when Miguel Rojas aggravated a left-adductor strain.
    Mike DiGiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The situation was further aggravated in 2022 by a fire at a fuel facility in Matanzas, in the island’s west, which destroyed 40% of the country’s main fuel storage structure.
    Patrick Oppmann, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of aggravated
Verb
  • That figure is exasperated by an ongoing paramedic shortage in Santa Clara county that at times forces firefighters to spend precious time waiting for ambulances when responding to a call, city staff said.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Americans eventually became exasperated again with high tariffs.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of exasperated
Verb
  • The hardware problem has bedeviled generations of smart glasses, and there still isn’t a neat fix.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024
  • And so, a fearful month begins, bedeviled by US electoral paralysis, in which any notions of the outgoing Biden administration being able to rein in Israel seem a little fanciful.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of bedeviled
Verb
  • An engineer at the company, Charlie Ward, was annoyed with Amazon’s Super Saving Shipping service, which offered customers free shipping if their order was $25 or more.
    Brian Solis, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Someone eating off my plate definitely annoyed me in most situations, but this felt different.
    Jodie Platt, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of annoyed
Verb
  • Later, he’ll get riled up and turn nasty, at which point his bias starts to affect our perception of things.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Conservatives either get riled by Martin or pay her no mind.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2024
Definition of riled
Verb
  • This, in turn, caused people to desert the label in droves, furious that a streaming service had the power to dictate who got popular or vexed that new artists making emo rap and other genre-fusions were included.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 3 Oct. 2024
  • There’s a puzzling tension inherent in these amplitudes — one that has vexed generations of quantum physicists going back to Feynman and Schwinger themselves.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Definition of vexed
Verb
  • Economists also worried that a long work stoppage could potentially drive up inflation and even lead to shortages of certain products.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Some investors have worried that generative AI, the tech that underpins Google’s AI summaries, could cannibalize the tech giant’s search business, which is still by far its most lucrative unit.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of worried
Verb
  • The Democratic Party should be put out of its misery.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • The firm put out an analysis in late September of U.S. companies with the greatest degree of China exposure: Ford, Carrier, Apple, Tesla, Coca Cola, Cummins, RTX Corporation, Honeywell, Walt Disney and Caterpillar.
    Sonia Heng,Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of put out
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