Nettle is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NETTLE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to annoy
• irritate or annoy (someone)
• sting with nettles.
• To fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger.
• sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation
• cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
• bother or irritate
NOUN:
• a herbaceous plant which has jagged leaves covered with stinging hairs.
• used in names of other plants with leaves of a similar appearance to those of the nettle, e.g. dead-nettle.
• plant with stinging hairs on the leaves
• A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamaedryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England.
• any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make angry

Words related to NETTLE

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Words that contain NETTLE

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How to use NETTLE in a sentence

• Nobody in authority seems willing to grasp the nettle for once and all.
• The only thing that remains to be tried is a tea steeped from the nettle root.
• So soon as Caterham knew the moment for grasping his nettle had come, he took the law into his own hands and sent to arrest Cossar and Redwood.
• Grasp his Nettle! Perhaps, for example, the Princess was to be seized and sent abroad.
• THE BOY AND THE NETTLES A Boy was gathering berries from a hedge when his hand was stung by a Nettle.
• The cloth on which these feathers were woven, was a kind of linen of neat texture, of the same kind with that which is now woven from the fibres of the nettle.
• The sting of nettle, perhaps you know, is a very uncomfortable pain.
• Captain Coffin, on the other hand, welcomed me back to Falmouth with a carelessness which disappointed if it did not nettle me.
• Now is the time for grasping this nettle of domestic danger, and, by crushing it without fear, to crush it for ever.
• Better be a nettle in the side of your friend, than his echo.
• The bite showed no more than the sting of a nettle, but around it was the deep impress of his teeth.
• Katupong resembles the nettle in growth, in fruit the blackberry.
• The curious spiked and spotted caterpillar feeds upon the common nettle.
• The substance which is thus active is a mass of protoplasm, and its activity differs in detail, rather than in principle, from that of the protoplasm of the nettle.
• No plant is more commonplace and plentiful in our fields and hedges throughout an English summer than the familiar stinging Nettle.
• The white dead Nettle is a degenerate form of this purple herb as shown by still possessing on its petals the same brown markings.
• The blame for her, the credit for him! From the nettle danger his wits had plucked the flower safety.
• If a field came to be abandoned, this parasite, as much despised as the thistle or the nettle, took possession of it immediately.
• So, like many another general who has shrunk from the nettle danger, he sought refuge in half-measures, the most damning course of all.
• A large nettle, springing from the bottom of the wall, reached the roof.

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