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Significados de nettle en inglés

portugués
importunar
catalán
amoïnar
español
provocar

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

provocar

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

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Examples for "urticate"
Examples for "urticate"
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These small and often harmless-looking plants are best known for that unique anatomical feature, urticating hairs.
Wicked plants
Uso de nettle en inglés
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Others hope a new generation of leaders could yet grasp the nettle.
The Guardian
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Now the time had come, Mr Quinn declared, to grasp the nettle.
The Irish Times
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The same treatment may be used in nettle rash or prickly heat.
The Mother and Her Child
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So out of the nettle danger we may pluck the flower safety.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
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From the nettle Change I have tried to pluck the flower Security.
Urban Sketches
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For two days Corker's nettle-rash grew worse, then it began to subside.
Scoop
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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...
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She recoiled with a fine horror which stung me like a nettle.
When Grandmamma Was New: The Story of a Virginia Childhood
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Aunt Millie's scorn stung me like a nettle, and I hated her.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
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I will have nettle tea, a boiled egg, and bread with butter.
A Dance with Dragons
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Don't believe that old nonsense about grasping the nettle; it still hurts.
The Irish Times
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Responsibility, however is the bitter seed, the nettle that nobody wants to grasp.
The Irish Times
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Please, Minister, grasp the nettle and introduce a range of repressive anti-smoking measures.
The Irish Times
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She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible.
Les Misérables
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Nobody in authority seems willing to grasp the nettle for once and all.
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontie...
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But I wish there was not a nettle in the world.
McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader
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Translations for nettle
Nettle a través del tiempo
Nettle por variante geográfica
Reino Unido
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Estados Unidos de América
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