Prickle vs Irritate - What's the difference?
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A small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn.
A tingling sensation of mild discomfort.
A kind of willow basket.
(UK, obsolete) A sieve of hazelnuts, weighing about fifty pounds.
To feel a prickle.
To cause someone to feel a prickle.
(lb) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
(lb) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
(lb) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
(lb) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
(lb) To render null and void.
:(Archbishop Bramhall)
In intransitive terms the difference between prickle and irritate
is that prickle is to feel a prickle while irritate is to cause or induce displeasure or irritation.In transitive terms the difference between prickle and irritate
is that prickle is to cause someone to feel a prickle while irritate is to induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).As a noun prickle
is a small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn.prickle
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(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- (Ben Jonson)