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Hurt vs Nettle - What's the difference?

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Hurt is a related term of nettle.


As verbs the difference between hurt and nettle

is that hurt is to be painful while nettle is (literally) of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting causing a rash in someone.

As nouns the difference between hurt and nettle

is that hurt is an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience) while nettle is any plant, the foliage of which is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.

As an adjective hurt

is wounded, physically injured.

hurt

English

Verb

  • To be painful.
    • Does your leg still hurt ? / It is starting to feel better.
  • To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
    • If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset.
  • To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
  • To undermine, impede, or damage.
    • This latest gaffe hurts the MP's reelection prospects still further.

    Synonyms

    * wound, injure

    Derived terms

    * wouldn't hurt a fly

    See also

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wounded, physically injured.
  • Pained.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience)
  • * How to overcome old hurts of the past
  • (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
  • * 1605 , Shakespeare, King Lear vii
    • I have received a hurt .
  • * John Locke
    • The pains of sickness and hurts all men feel.
  • (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thou dost me yet but little hurt .
  • (heraldiccharge) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
  • (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
  • A husk.

    • Related terms

    * hurty

    References

    Anagrams

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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.

    • Anagrams

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