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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To sting or whip with or as if with nettles.
  2. v. To produce a stinging or itching sensation.
  3. adj. Characterized by the presence of hives.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To sting like a nettle; nettle with stinging hairs; produce urtication in or of.
  2. To have or exercise the faculty of urticating; effect urtication; sting.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To have or produce a stinging sensation, as of nettles or urticating hair.

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation
  2. v. whip with or as with nettles

Etymologies

  1. Medieval Latin urticāre, urticāt-, from Latin urtica, nettle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. irritate
  1. annoy

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  1. bite
  1. sting
  1. burn
  1. lash
  1. whip

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  1. sting

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  • slumry To sting with, or as if with, nettles. Jul 24, 2007

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