nettle

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I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
nettle rash
stinging nettle
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
sting
▪ The burn of the nettle stings might fade, but not the burning heat of her body.
▪ A shocked demeanour and a couple of nettle stings to valiant rescuer Beverley were the only legacies.
▪ She felt a mild nettle sting.
VERB
grasp
▪ Mellor grasped the nettle and told how he felt like Daniel in the lion's den.
▪ Then it may be able to grasp the nettles of boundaries and ethos and see them as secondary.
▪ The community has also grasped the nettle of the unemployment argument for development.
▪ Since impacts are the product of population numbers and consumption, all nations should grasp the nettle of eventual zero population growth.
▪ Mr. Thornton and Mr. Taylor grasped that nettle.
▪ A new field of activity seemed to be opening up for him if only he had the courage to grasp the nettle.
▪ Mrs Bottomley later dismissed suggestions that she had failed to grasp the nettle.
▪ When the right hon. Gentleman came to that office, he had the opportunity to grasp the nettle of prison reform.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grasp the nettle
▪ A new field of activity seemed to be opening up for him if only he had the courage to grasp the nettle.
▪ Down in Alcester they have grasped the nettle.
▪ Mellor grasped the nettle and told how he felt like Daniel in the lion's den.
▪ Mrs Bottomley later dismissed suggestions that she had failed to grasp the nettle.
▪ Since impacts are the product of population numbers and consumption, all nations should grasp the nettle of eventual zero population growth.
▪ The community has also grasped the nettle of the unemployment argument for development.
▪ Then it may be able to grasp the nettles of boundaries and ethos and see them as secondary.
▪ When the right hon. Gentleman came to that office, he had the opportunity to grasp the nettle of prison reform.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Avoid spraying your plants with pesticides, grow plants that encourage beneficial insects such as carrots, parsley, parsnips and nettles.
▪ Focused on a fascinating project, they are oblivious to the nettles of working together in ordinary circumstances.
▪ He told me he was fifteen, and showed me his stings from nettles.
▪ Her ankles and shins were scratched and bloodied, her stockings shredded by the trackside weeds and nettles.
▪ Reaching about a foot in height, whorls of rose-purple flowers the same shape as dead nettles are produced in May.
▪ The stinging nettles and Luke Goddard seemed oddly connected in his mindand I thought I could half understand this.
▪ Tim Renton could be said to have been the first to grasp this nettle.
▪ To try and get to it by going round outside the garden wall meant ploughing through waist-high nettles and clumps of bramble.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The topic of a Midwestern identity has nettled writers for decades.

nettle

I. net‧tle¹ /ˈnetl/ (also stinging nettle) noun [COUNTABLE]
[Language : Old English; Origin : netel]
a wild plant with rough leaves that sting you
⇨ grasp the nettle at grasp¹(4), ⇨ stinging nettle

II. nettle² verb
be nettled (by something) informal to be annoyed by what someone says or does:
　 ▪ She was nettled by Holman’s remark.