do sb's head in
UK informalDefinition
› to make someone feel confused and unhappy: Getting up at four o'clock every morning was doing my head in. I've been trying to make sense of all these figures and it's doing my head in.Puzzle and confuseDifficult to understandMaking people sad, shocked and upset
(Definition of do sb's head in from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- aback adverb
- amiss adjective
- appal verb
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- bother verb (WORRY)
- go/fall to pieces idiom
- grieve verb
- haunt verb (REPEATEDLY TROUBLE)
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- hurt sb's feelings idiom
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- offense noun
- shake sb up phrasal verb
- shocker noun
- sorrow verb
- sting verb (HURT)
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- tear sb apart phrasal verb
- toxic adjective (UNPLEASANT)
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