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bait
Synonyms and Antonyms of bait
- Cheese is the traditional bait for trapping mice.
- The promise of free vacation is surefire bait to get people to agree to be chaperones for school trips.
bait
Synonyms and Antonyms of bait
- The coach trained his players to keep their cool when members of the opposing team baited them.
deride, gibe (or jibe), jeer, mock, ridicule
annoy, bother, bug, burn (up), chafe, fret, frost, gall, get, gnaw (at), grate, gripe, irk, irritate, nettle, peeve, pester, pique, put out, rasp, rile, ruffle, spite, trouble, vex
aggravate, exasperate, goad, test, try
aggrieve, agitate, bedevil, beleaguer, discomfort, disturb, perturb
harass, harry, persecute, plague, terrorize, torment, torture
make game of, pick on
- The investment scheme cunningly baits the greedy and the unscrupulous.
Synonym Discussion of bait
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- baited the chained dog
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- badgered her father for a car
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- drunks heckled the stand-up comic
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- football players hectored by their coach
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- chivied the new student mercilessly
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- hounded by creditors
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