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1. Rock fragments and pebbles
   - crushed rock

1. [US] Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
   "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really gravels me"
   - annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark [Brit], nettle, vex, chafe, devil
    
2. Cover with gravel
    
3. Be a mystery or bewildering to
   "a gravelling problem"
   - perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, amaze, dumbfound

Derived forms: graveling, gravelled, graveled, gravels, gravelling

See also: gravelly

Type of: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, cover, discombobulate, displease, fox, fuddle, rock, stone, throw

Encyclopedia: Gravel Gravel, Geary