Usually means: Cause annoyance or frustration to.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word vex:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. vex: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vex: Merriam-Webster
  3. vex: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vex: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. vex: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vex: Vocabulary.com
  7. Vex, vex: Wordnik
  8. vex: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. VEX, vex: Wiktionary
  10. vex: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. vex: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. vex: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. vex: Dictionary.com
  14. vex: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. vex: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. VEX, Vex (album), Vex: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Vex: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. vex: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. vex: Rhymezone
  20. vex: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. vex: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. VEX: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. vex: FreeDictionary.org
  24. vex: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. vex: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. vex: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vex-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Vex: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  2. vex: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vex: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. VEX: Acronym Finder
  2. VEX: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vex, vex: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See vexed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To annoy, irritate.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To trouble aggressively, to harass.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To twist, to weave.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.
verb:  (transitive) To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
noun:  (Scotland, obsolete) A trouble.
noun:  (space science, ESA) Initialism of Venus Express.

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