Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To sting or whip with or as if with nettles.
- intransitive verb To produce a stinging or itching sensation.
- adjective Characterized by the presence of hives.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sting like a nettle; nettle with stinging hairs; produce urtication in or of.
- To have or exercise the faculty of urticating; effect urtication; sting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To have or produce a
stinging sensation, as ofnettles or urticating hair.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation
- verb whip with or as with nettles
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Medieval Latin urticāre, urticāt-, from Latin urtica, nettle.]
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Examples
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He mispronounced quite common words: urticate, salpinx, bordereau.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
slumry commented on the word urticate
To sting with, or as if with, nettles.
July 24, 2007
luthien13 commented on the word urticate
Pronounced \ˈər-tə-ˌkāt\
July 17, 2017