irritate Copy link Outline I. To provoke, exasperate1. irrīto, 12. expr. by stŏmăchus, īra, with a verbII. Fig. • irritate: I. To provoke, exasperate: 1. irrīto, 1: esp. with animum, animos, as object, Liv. 31, 5 (opportune irritandis ad bellum animis): Just. 9, 2 (but irritare appears to have been used absol. with direct acc. of person, cf. Prov. irritare crabrones, Pl. Am. 2, 2, 84). 2. expr. by stŏmăchus, īra, with a verb: e. g. stomachum alicui movere, Cic. Att. 6, 3, 3; facere, ib. 5, 11, 2: see also to enrage, exasperate. (Bilem movere, commovere, also occur, but in somewhat stronger sense, cf. Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 20: v. indignation.) II. Fig.: to cause irritation, esp. in a sore: inflammo, 1: v. to inflame (II.).