Synonyms of the word

nettle

• n. Any plant, the foliage of which is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
• n. Certain plants that have spines or prickles.
• n. Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica.
• n. Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
• v. (literally) Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting causing a rash in someone.
• v. (figuratively) To pique, irritate, vex or provoke someone.

annoy

• v. (transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant…
• v. (intransitive) To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
• v. (transitive) To molest; to harm; to injure.
• n. (now rare, literary) A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
• n. (now rare, literary) That which causes such a feeling.

bite

• v. (transitive) To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
• v. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
• v. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
• v. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
• v. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some…
• v. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
• v. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be…
• v. (transitive) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense.
• v. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so…
• v. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
• v. (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
• v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
• v. (intransitive, African American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
• n. The act of biting.
• n. The wound left behind after having been bitten.
• n. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
• n. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
• n. (slang) Something unpleasant.
• n. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
• n. A small meal or snack.
• n. (figuratively) aggression.
• n. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of…
• n. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
• n. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
• n. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else,…

bother

• v. (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate.
• v. (intransitive) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
• v. (intransitive) To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
• n. Fuss, ado.
• n. Trouble, inconvenience.
• interj. A mild expression of annoyance.

burn

• n. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
• n. A sensation resembling such an injury.
• n. The act of burning something.
• n. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
• n. (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
• n. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
• n. (Britain, chiefly prison slang) tobacco.
• n. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
• n. A disease in vegetables; brand.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
• v. (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
• v. (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
• v. (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
• v. (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
• v. (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals.
• v. (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To sunburn.
• v. (transitive) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect…
• v. (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
• v. (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat;…
• v. (chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
• v. (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
• v. (transitive, slang) To betray.
• v. (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
• v. (transitive) To waste (time).
• v. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
• v. (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
• v. (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
• v. (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare…
• n. (Scotland, Northern England) A stream.

chafe

• n. Heat excited by friction.
• n. Injury or wear caused by friction.
• n. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
• n. (archaic) An expression of opinionated conflict.
• v. (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
• v. (transitive) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
• v. (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.
• v. (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
• v. (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.
• v. (intransitive) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.

devil

• n. (theology) A creature of hell.
• n. (theology) (the devil or the Devil) The chief devil; Satan.
• n. The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
• n. A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous…
• n. A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
• n. (euphemistically, with an article, as an intensifier) Hell.
• n. A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil…
• n. A dust devil.
• n. (religion, Christian Science) An evil or erring entity.
• n. (dialectal, in compounds) A barren, unproductive and unused area.
• n. (cooking) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
• n. A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
• n. A Tasmanian devil.
• n. (cycling, slang) An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
• v. To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
• v. To annoy or bother; to bedevil.
• v. To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
• v. To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
• v. To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
• v. To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and…

displease

• v. To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend;…
• v. To fail to satisfy; to miss of.
• v. To give displeasure or offense.

gravel

• n. (uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railroads, and as ballast.
• n. A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
• n. (uncountable, geology) A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
• n. (uncountable, archaic) Kidney stones; a deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the…
• v. (transitive) To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
• v. To puzzle or annoy.
• v. To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
• v. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
• v. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

irritate

• v. (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
• v. (transitive) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
• v. (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
• v. (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
• v. (obsolete) To render null and void.

nark

• n. (Britain, slang) A police spy or informer.
• n. (Australia, slang) An unpleasant person, especially one who makes things difficult for others; a spoilsport.
• v. (transitive, thieves' cant) To watch; to observe.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To serve or behave as a spy or informer.
• v. (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To complain.
• v. (transitive, slang, often imperative) To stop.
• n. Alternative form of narc (narcotics officer).

rag

• n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
• n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
• n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
• n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
• n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
• n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
• n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
• v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
• n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
• v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
• v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
• v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
• v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
• v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
• v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
• n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
• n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
• n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
• n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

rile

• v. to make angry.
• v. to stir or move from a state of calm or order.

sting

• n. A bump left on the skin after having been stung.
• n. A bite by an insect.
• n. A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
• n. A sharp, localised pain primarily on the epidermis.
• n. (botany) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secretes an acrid fluid, as in nettles.
• n. The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
• n. (law enforcement) A police operation in which the police pretend to be criminals in order to catch a criminal.
• n. A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
• n. A brief sequence of music used in films, TV, and video games as a form of punctuation in a dramatic or…
• n. A support for a wind tunnel model which extends parallel to the air flow.
• n. (figuratively) The harmful or painful part of something.
• n. A goad; incitement.
• n. The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
• v. (transitive) To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.
• v. (transitive, of an insect) To bite.
• v. (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To hurt, to be in pain.
• v. (figuratively) To cause harm or pain to.

urticate

• v. To have or produce a stinging sensation, as of nettles or urticating hair.
• adj. Marked by the presence of wheals.

vex

• v. (transitive, now rare) To trouble aggressively, to harass.
• v. (transitive) To annoy, irritate.
• v. (transitive) To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
• v. (transitive, rare) To twist, to weave.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.
• v. (transitive) To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

weed

• n. (countable) Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing.
• n. Short for duckweed.
• n. (uncountable, archaic or obsolete) Underbrush; low shrubs.
• n. A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
• n. (countable) A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
• n. (countable, Britain, informal) A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.
• n. (countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
• v. To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.
• n. (archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
• n. (archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
• n. (archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
• n. (archaic, especially in the plural as "widow's weeds") (Female) mourning apparel.
• n. (countable, Scotland) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who…
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wee.