Antonyms for nettles
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : net-l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈnɛt l |
Definition of nettles
Origin :- "vexed, irritated," c.1400, figurative adjectival use of past participle of nettle (v.).
- verb provoke, upset
- They also require to be kept in the sunshine or a warm place, and guarded from the rain, or from running among the nettles.
- Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
- Around was a wilderness overgrown with rank grass, nettles, and weeds.
- Extract from : « Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) » by Various
- Honor picked herself out of the nettles as quickly as she could.
- Extract from : « The New Girl at St. Chad's » by Angela Brazil
- It is not right to live the slave of Pales, or become the rhapsode of docks and nettles.
- Extract from : « Apologia Diffidentis » by W. Compton Leith
- By this belt the nettles and rocks shall be removed from the road.
- Extract from : « A Virginia Scout » by Hugh Pendexter
- You mustn't do this here, you mustn't do that there, it's like sitting in a field of nettles.
- Extract from : « Villa Rubein and Other Stories » by John Galsworthy
- The most familiar case, however, is that of the Stinging and the Dead Nettles.
- Extract from : « The Beauties of Nature » by Sir John Lubbock
- Stay, Mary, has your mother got any nettles for spring drink?
- Extract from : « Mary Barton » by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- There was nothing in wells or nettles, only women dreaded them.
- Extract from : « Irish Fairy Tales » by James Stephens
- Nettles were there; the orangeries were gone; the winter garden had disappeared.
- Extract from : « ZigZag Journeys in Northern Lands; » by Hezekiah Butterworth
Synonyms for nettles
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