Synonym: annoy, bait, bawl out, bedevil, berate, bother, call down, call on the carpet, chafe, chew out, chew up, chide, cod, crucify, devil, dress down, dun, frustrate, get at, get to, gravel, have words, irritate, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, nark, nettle, rag week, ragtime, rally, razz, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, ride, rile, scold, sheet, shred, tabloid, tag, tag end, take to task, tantalise, tantalize, tatter, taunt, tease, torment, trounce, twit, vex. Similar words: rage, drag, drag in, tragic, drag on, for ages, garage, storage. Meaning: [ræg] n. 1. a small piece of cloth or paper 2. a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities 3. music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano) 4. newspaper with half-size pages 5. a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students). v. 1. treat cruelly 2. cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations 3. play in ragtime 4. harass with persistent criticism or carping 5. censure severely or angrily 6. break into lumps before sorting.
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31. It's just an old rag I had in the closet.
32. He said one too many stupid things and I just lost my rag.
33. He used a rag to staunch the flow of blood.
34. If you criticize him, it's like a red rag to a bull-he gets absolutely furious.
35. Just get a rag and wipe it up.
36. His optimism was a red rag to the protesters.
37. Dick wiped his hands on a greasy rag.
38. She looked like a rag doll.
39. There were spots of blood on the rag.
40. Rag paper high quality stationery made from cotton rags.
41. That paper's nothing but a fascist rag.
42. With an oily rag, rub the metal part.
43. He used a rag to stem the bleeding.
44. But her tongue feels as if it has been stuffed in her mouth like a rag to keep her quiet.
45. I opened the window, stepped out on the ledge, and began to wash windowpanes with a rag.
46. The Universes squabble over him - Here a bone[Sentence dictionary], there a rag.
47. But as soon as some right-wing rag called her a lesbian, she started screaming defamation.
48. The unremitting four-mile ascent to the high pass over the ridge reduced me to a walking wet rag.
49. But why, they asked of each other, should a child like that be under the care of the rag woman?
50. Then sand lightly with fine steel wool, and dust off thoroughly, finishing with a tacky rag.
51. They tipped the contents of one oil drum into the car and threw in a burning rag.
52. Your first effort may well look like a rag doll, but this is quite adequate to begin with.
53. It even persisted into the twentieth century and the Infirmary produced a Bullard's Rag Mag during the 1950s.
54. Nguyen wiped at it with the filthy rag that had been his headband.
55. This rag doll treatment of our things is great fun for him.
56. A wet finger or rag will smooth a caulked joint and leave a neat appearance.
57. Jim reached across and wiped his mate's forehead with an oily rag.
58. My wife is a business woman with two shops and I came out at the height of the rag trade jamborees.
59. This was how he remembered her, rather than as the cancer-pained rag doll he had nursed until her death.
60. He backed off, wiping his hands on the oily rag, frowning.
More similar words: rage, drag, drag in, tragic, drag on, for ages, garage, storage, paragon, fragile, fragment, coverage, encourage, courageous, discourage, on average, pragmatic, discouraged, encouraging, all over again.