annoy

hermostuttaa puhekieltä To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
Prior

Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?

(ux)

to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade

tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them

I merveyle me wonder faste / How ony man may lyve or laste / In such peyne and such brennyng, / ... In such annoy contynuely.

We that suffer long annoy / Are contented with a thought / Through an idle fancy wrought: / O let my joys have some abiding!

if she says he was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated, than give her a moment's annoy.

Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, / Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy ....

The home far and away, the distance where lives joy, / The cure, at once and ever, of world and world's annoy ....