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Meanings of nettle in English

Portuguese
importunar
Catalan
amoïnar
Spanish
provocar

To make someone rather angry or impatient; to cause annoyance.

importunar

Sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation.

Usage of nettle in English
1
Others hope a new generation of leaders could yet grasp the nettle.
The Guardian
2
Now the time had come, Mr Quinn declared, to grasp the nettle.
The Irish Times
3
The same treatment may be used in nettle rash or prickly heat.
The Mother and Her Child
4
So out of the nettle danger we may pluck the flower safety.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
5
From the nettle Change I have tried to pluck the flower Security.
Urban Sketches
6
For two days Corker's nettle-rash grew worse, then it began to subside.
Scoop
7
The sting of nettle, perhaps you know, is a very uncomfortable pain.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, No. 07, May 18...
8
She recoiled with a fine horror which stung me like a nettle.
When Grandmamma Was New: The Story of a Virginia Childhood
9
Aunt Millie's scorn stung me like a nettle, and I hated her.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
10
I will have nettle tea, a boiled egg, and bread with butter.
A Dance with Dragons
11
Don't believe that old nonsense about grasping the nettle; it still hurts.
The Irish Times
12
Responsibility, however is the bitter seed, the nettle that nobody wants to grasp.
The Irish Times
13
Please, Minister, grasp the nettle and introduce a range of repressive anti-smoking measures.
The Irish Times
14
She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible.
Les Misérables
15
Nobody in authority seems willing to grasp the nettle for once and all.
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontie...
16
But I wish there was not a nettle in the world.
McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader
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Nettle through the time
Nettle across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common