grants a stay (verb) reprieve: relieve of blame, responsibility
Sinonime: acerbate,
affront,
aggravate,
agitate,
annoy,
antagonize,
arouse,
bait, blow up, boil over, boil, bristle,
burn, burn up,
chafe,
craze*,
cross, displease, egg on, embitter, enrage,
exacerbate,
exasperate,
excite,
fret,
gall, get mad, get on one's nerves,
goad, incense, inflame, infuriate,
irritate, lose one's temper, madden, make sore, miff, nettle,
offend,
outrage,
pique,
provoke, raise hell,
rankle,
rant,
rave, rile, ruffle, seethe, steam up, stew, stir up,
tempt,
umbrage,
vexAntonime: calm, forbear, make happy,
quiet,
soothe