Deliberately committed or designed to cause problems for another person.

(idiomatic) Not in the direct route that one would normally use.

Used to order someone to give clear passage.

(originally US, idiomatic) To exhaust; to demand excessive effort or work from somebody.

(informal) To annoy someone. / (informal) To hinder someone or interfere with their actions.

(UK, colloquial) To annoy or upset someone, especially by repeated disagreeable actions.

(idiomatic) To despise; to hate intensely or passionately.

(idiomatic, usually reflexive, dated) To make someone more resistant to something.

(Australia, slang) To say flattering or fawning things to a person in the hope of gaining favour with them.

(idiomatic) To physically or verbally subdue someone.