Englishhack1
verb
1 Stuart hacked the padlock off | they had to hack their way through the jungle:
cut, chop, hew, lop, saw;
slash.
□ hack it
informal
□ hack someone offAdam moved out because he couldn't hack it:
cope, manage, get on, get along, get by, carry on, muddle through, muddle along, come through, stand on one's own two feet, weather the storm;
stand it, tolerate it, bear it, endure it, put up with it;
Scottish thole it;
informal make out, handle it, abide it, stick it;
British, informal rub along, be doing with it.
informal
it hacks him off when he misses a putt:
annoy, irritate, vex, make angry, make cross, anger, exasperate, irk, gall, pique, put out, displease, get/put someone's back up, antagonize, get on someone's nerves, rub up the wrong way, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, raise someone's hackles;
enrage, infuriate, madden, make someone's blood boil, drive to distraction, goad, provoke;
informal aggravate, peeve, hassle, miff, rile, nettle, needle, get, get to, bug, get under someone's skin, get in someone's hair, get someone's goat, rattle someone's cage, drive mad/crazy, drive around the bend, drive up the wall, make someone see red;
British, informal wind up, nark, get across, get on someone's wick, drive round the twist, get up someone's nose, put someone's nose out of joint, give someone the hump;
North American, informal tee off, tick off, burn up, rankle, ride, gravel, bum out;
New Zealand, informal rark;
vulgar slang piss off;
British, vulgar slang get on someone's tits;
informal , dated give someone the pip, get someone's dander up;
rare exacerbate, hump, rasp.
▷antonyms please, gratify.