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Irritant

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Irritant meaning

Causing irritation or inflammation. | Rendering null and void; conditionally invalidating.

Example sentences (20)

Capsaicin takes effect upon skin contact (irritant, sensitizer), eye contact (irritant), ingestion, and inhalation (lung irritant, lung sensitizer).

It can cause a strong irritant to the skin, eyes and mucous membranes and cause blindness if splashed into the eyes.

The agreement also requires limiting Taser and chemical irritant use by officers, and introduces a new framework to categorize officers’ use of force.

As development has exploded, especially on larger tracts, burn piles have been a recurrent irritant to residents, not just in in Palm Coast.

As police moved in, students were pushed to the ground, pulled by their arms and sprayed with a chemical irritant, Laura Goldblatt, an assistant professor of English and global studies who has been helping student demonstrators, told The Washington Post.

Eight people were rushed to hospital in Limerick city as a university campus building was evacuated over fears of contamination by a potential irritant on Wednesday morning.

He was also unlawfully in possession of a noxious irritant spray.

One possible difference between the candidates may be over support for Taiwan, “the greatest irritant” in Washington-Beijing ties, Orlins said.

The Boston manager just got his new, near-record $21.75 million, three-year contract, and his former irritant Verdugo remains a puzzle.

The Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Georgia) released a shortly after the protest was terminated, condemning the police for using tasers and irritant gas to break up the pro-Palestine demonstration.

Across the two decades that have followed, spam has remained the primary vehicle for delivering malware as well as being an ever-present irritant.

Growing Iranian Influence in Kargil: Next Irritant for Tehran-New Delhi Relations?

Having disentangled itself from various humiliating forms of subordination to outside powers, it seems pretty clear that this dynamic of subordination has one remaining irritant left for Pakistanis: that of the House of Saud.

John Bercow: ‘I may be pompous and an irritant.

She and her assistants immediately began the arduous process of removing the oil using a specialised non-irritant detergent and lots of TLC.

The officers suddenly surged toward the barricade and began firing an irritant into the crowd.

At 9:15 p.m., “an individual was spraying an irritant at Fair guests,” Minnesota State Fair Police Chief Paul Paulos said in a statement Tuesday.

But the weather is more than just an irritant, and a barrier to getting work done during planting and the harvest- it is having real-world impacts on the bottom line for family farmers across the state.

But this is just a tiny irritant in an otherwise superb novel.

By virtue of that, we’re an irritant.