| gravel |  |  | 
| n. (substance) | 1. crushed rock, gravel | rock fragments and pebbles. | 
 |  ~ rock, stone | material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust.; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries" | 
 |  ~ ballast | coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads. | 
 |  ~ bank gravel, pit-run gravel, pit run | gravel as found in natural deposits. | 
 |  ~ shingle | coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel). | 
| v. (emotion) | 2. annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex | cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations.; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" | 
 |  ~ get under one's skin, get | irritate.; "Her childish behavior really get to me"; "His lying really gets me" | 
 |  ~ eat into, rankle, grate, fret | gnaw into; make resentful or angry.; "The injustice rankled her"; "his resentment festered" | 
 |  ~ chafe | feel extreme irritation or anger.; "He was chafing at her suggestion that he stay at home while she went on a vacation" | 
 |  ~ peeve | cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful. | 
 |  ~ ruffle | trouble or vex.; "ruffle somebody's composure" | 
 |  ~ fret | cause annoyance in. | 
 |  ~ beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke | annoy continually or chronically.; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" | 
 |  ~ antagonize, antagonise | provoke the hostility of.; "Don't antagonize your boss" | 
 |  ~ displease | give displeasure to. | 
| v. (contact) | 3. gravel | cover with gravel.; "We gravelled the driveway" | 
 |  ~ cover | provide with a covering or cause to be covered.; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers" | 
| v. (cognition) | 4. amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex | be a mystery or bewildering to.; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" | 
 |  ~ stump, mix up | cause to be perplexed or confounded.; "This problem stumped her" | 
 |  ~ befuddle, confound, bedevil, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw | be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher" | 
 |  ~ riddle | set a difficult problem or riddle.; "riddle me a riddle" | 
 |  ~ elude, escape | be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by.; "What you are seeing in him eludes me" | 
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