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Nettle

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.

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Verb group 4

Chafe 84% connected

To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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Chafe 84% connected

To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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Urticate 84% connected

To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.

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Urticate 84% connected

To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.

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Manner of action 14

Antagonize 76% connected

To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.

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Beset 76% connected

of Beset

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Chevy 76% connected

See Chivy, v. t.

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Chivy 76% connected

To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.

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Fret 76% connected

See 1st Frith.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Grate 76% connected

Serving to gratify; agreeable.

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Harass 76% connected

To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens o…

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Harry 76% connected

To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.

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Molest 76% connected

To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.

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Plague 76% connected

That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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Provoke 76% connected

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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Rankle 76% connected

To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.

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Ruffle 76% connected

To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

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Broader term 5

Bite 76% connected

To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a cru…

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Burn 76% connected

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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Displease 76% connected

To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at.…

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Sting 76% connected

Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…

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Weed 76% connected

A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.

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Richweed 76% connected

An herb (Pilea pumila) of the Nettle family, having a smooth, juicy, pellucid stem; -- called also clearweed.

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Annoy 92% connected

To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.

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Bother 92% connected

To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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Chafe 92% connected

To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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Devil 92% connected

The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.

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Gravel 92% connected

Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

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Irritate 92% connected

To render null and void.

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Rag 92% connected

To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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Rile 92% connected

To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

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Urticate 92% connected

To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.

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Vex 92% connected

To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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