OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 3405

nettle

[ˈnɛɾʊl]
Meanings (ES + gloss)
urticante
Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.
The children were badly nettled after playing in the field.
[…] I am whipp’d and scourged with rods, / Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear / Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
hostigar
To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.
I saw Mr. Williams was a little nettled at my Impatience […]
Liu, whose political writings had nettled the Taiwanese authorities, was assassinated on October 15, last year, in Daly City […]
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