To annoy, irritate.
Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his grades.
A trouble.
Initialism of Venus Express.
From Middle English vexen, from Old French vexer, from Latin vexāre (“disturb, agitate, annoy”). Doublet of quake. Displaced native Old English dreċċan and gremman.
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To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
I will not again vex her ear with words of love, however true, however deep: ours is an evil destiny, and we may not control it!
To trouble aggressively, to harass.
In that tyme Herode the kynge layed hondes on certayne of the congregaciõ, to vexe them.
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