"grind one's gears" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-grind one's gears.wav Forms: grinds one's gears [present, singular, third-person], grinding one's gears [participle, present], ground one's gears [participle, past], ground one's gears [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|grind<,,ground> one's gears}} grind one's gears (third-person singular simple present grinds one's gears, present participle grinding one's gears, simple past and past participle ground one's gears)
  1. (informal) To annoy or irritate one. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Anger Synonyms: chap someone's hide, get someone's goat, annoy
    Sense id: en-grind_one's_gears-en-verb-m7kBtJ8R Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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