Both Uses
vex
in
The Tell-Tale Heart
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- And this I did for seven long nights—every night just at midnight—but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.†
*vexed = annoyed
- This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(vex) to annoy, worry, or frustrate -- especially by being difficult or persistent
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)