English Explanatory Dictionary

test someone's patience

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To begin to frustrate someone.

Word forms

test someone's patience tests someone's patience testing someone's patience tested someone's patience

Synonyms

try someone's patience aggravate annoy nettle rankle ruffle sting antagonize bother disgruntle botherate bug get grate burn up bedevil cheese off devil exasperate frustrate get up grotch hack off hassle irk irritate jazz molest mommick nark nerve pee off peeve persecute pique piss off provoke rile rile up roil storm test someone's patience tick off trouble try one's patience vex wind up Idioms: boil someone's piss chap someone's hide get on someone's nerves get on someone's tits get on someone's wick get someone's back up get someone's dander up get someone's goat get someone's Irish up get someone's nanny get someone's nanny-goat get under one's goat
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