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third-person singular simple present irks, present participle irking, simple past and past participle irked
(transitive) to irritate; annoy; bother quotations examples
Let no man pray to Māna-Yood-Sushāī, for who shall trouble Māna with mortal woes or irk him with the sorrows of all the houses of Earth?
1905, [Edward Plunkett,] Lord Dunsany, The Gods of Pegāna, London: Elkin Mathews, […]