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• lining: But such benefits may be outweighed by its potential to irritate the stomach lining or an existing stomach ulcer.

• airway: Previous studies Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 substances - many of which irritate the airways.

• skin: The discharge may irritate the skin around the anus.

• stomach: Avoid salty, fatty or spicy foods that might irritate the stomach.

• bladder: It is best to avoid large quantities of caffeine and alcohol as these irritate the bladder.

Modifying Another Word

• downright: The media are perplexed and at times downright irritated by this turn of events.

• slightly: Your point about the flood warning slightly irritated me.

Preposition: by

• fact: For a few years, I was irritated by the fact procedural languages couldn't return more than one item.

Modifying Another Word

• mildly: The only mildly irritating aspect of the evening was the apparent lack of a smoking policy.

• intensely: He also has an intensely irritating habit of keeping facts away from the reader.

• moderately: Olibanum gum applied to intact or abraded rabbit skin for 24 hours under occlusion was found to be moderately irritating.

• immensely: Also immensely irritating is the movie's choppy editing style.

Preposition: after

• while: The stereo sound is average but the dialog comes through fine although the laugh track does get irritating after a while.

Used with why or when

• when: What might be interesting stuff becomes distracting and in some cases irritating when it interrupts another story.

Infinitive complement

• read: Mysteries are all unraveled eventually, but it is irritating to read 'After the accident.

• find: Thatâs why it was so irritating to find the front-of-house staff charming.