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Meanings of urticate in English

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

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        Examples for "nettle"
        Examples for "nettle"
        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
        Usage of urticate in English
        1
        These small and often harmless-looking plants are best known for that unique anatomical feature, urticating hairs.
        Wicked plants