Infuriate vs Nettle - What's the difference?

Infuriate is a related term of nettle.

As verbs the difference between infuriate and nettle

is that infuriate is to make furious or mad with anger; to enrage while nettle is (literally) of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting causing a rash in someone.

As an adjective infuriate

is enraged, furious.

As a noun nettle is

any plant, the foliage of which is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.

infuriate

English

Verb

(infuriat)

To make furious or mad with anger; to enrage

Synonyms

* See also

Adjective

(en adjective)

Enraged, furious.

* 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, p. 336:

*:‘A'll not leave thee,’ said Weeper in an infuriate rage.

(Milton)

* Thomson

Inflamed beyond the most infuriate wrath.

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nettle

English

(wikipedia nettle) (Urtica)

Noun

(en noun)

Any plant, the foliage of which is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.

# Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica , the stinging nettles:

## Most, but not all, subspecies of ,

## ;

# Wood nettle ();

# (vern)s and (spurge nettle)s of genus :

## , (bull nettle), (spurge nettle),

## , (Texas bull nettle),

## , (bull nettle),

## (vern) or (tree nettle)s:

### Various species of the genus ,

### ,

### ;

# (rock nettle) ();

# (small-leaved nettle) ().

Certain plants that have spines or prickles:

# (ball nettle) ();

# , (bull nettle), (silver-leaf nettle), (white horse-nettle);

# , (western horse-nettle), (robust horse-nettle);

# , (horse-nettle);

# Celtis .

Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the same family (Lamiaceae as the stinging nettles, that resemble the species of Urtica :

# (dead nettle), (dumb nettle) (Lamium ), particularly , (white nettle);

# (false nettle) ();

# (flame nettle) or (painted nettle) (Coleus );

# (hedge nettle) (Stachys );

# (hemp nettle) ();

# (horse nettle)s:

## ,

## , (ball-nettle), (Carolina horse-nettle),

## , (bull nettle), (silver-leaf nettle), (white horse-nettle);

# (nilgiri nettle), (Himalayan giant nettle) ().

Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.

Derived terms

* grasp the nettle * nettle rash * nettlelike * nettlesome * nettly

Verb

(nettl) (transitive)

(literally) Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting causing a rash in someone.

The children were badly nettled after playing in the field.

(figuratively) To pique, irritate, vex or provoke someone.

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