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Значения термина nettle на английском

португальский
importunar
каталонский
amoïnar
испанский
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.

            Использование термина nettle на английском
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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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            португальский
            importunarvexarmolestarincomodarirritar
            Nettle через время
            Nettle в диалектах
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