All nettle synonyms
netΒ·tle
N n verb nettle
- needle β a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
- irritate β to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- annoy β If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
- aggravate β If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
- enrage β Make very angry.
- pester β to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- provoke β to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
- rile β to irritate or vex.
- hassle β a disorderly dispute.
- niggle β to criticize, especially constantly or repeatedly, in a peevish or petty way; carp: to niggle about the fine points of interpretation; preferring to niggle rather than take steps to correct a situation.
- bedevil β If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time.
- irk β to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
- gnaw β to bite or chew on, especially persistently.
- tease β to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
- upset β to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
- chafe β If your skin chafes or is chafed by something, it becomes sore as a result of something rubbing against it.
- disgust β to cause loathing or nausea in.
- disturb β to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
- exasperate β Irritate intensely; infuriate.
- fret β to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
- get β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- goad β a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- harass β to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- huff β a mood of sulking anger; a fit of resentment: Just because you disagree, don't walk off in a huff.
- incense β an aromatic gum or other substance producing a sweet odor when burned, used in religious ceremonies, to enhance a mood, etc.
- insult β to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.
- miff β petulant displeasure; ill humor.
- peeve β to render peevish; annoy.
- pet β a fit of peevishness, sulking, or bad mood.
- pique β a fabric of cotton, spun rayon, or silk, woven lengthwise with raised cords.
- roil β to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- ruffle β to beat (a drum) in this manner.
- snit β an agitated or irritated state.
- stew β to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.
- sting β to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
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- vex β to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
- put out β a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
noun nettle
- brier β any of various thorny shrubs or other plants, such as the sweetbrier and greenbrier
- bramble β Brambles are wild prickly bushes that produce blackberries.
- thistle β any of various prickly, composite plants having showy, purple flower heads, especially of the genera Cirsium, Carduus, or Onopordum.
- thorn β German name of ToruΕ.
- furze β gorse.
- gorse β any spiny shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, native to the Old World, especially U. europaeus, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers and growing in waste places and sandy soil.
- goose grass β cleavers.