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grate verb ( ANNOY )
/greɪt/ v Definition
[I] When a noise or behaviour grates, it annoys you
After a while her voice really started to grate on me.
It's the way she's always talking about herself - it just grates on me.
(Definition of grate verb (ANNOY) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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