Usually means: Sting or irritate with nettles.
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  1. urticate: Merriam-Webster
  2. urticate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. urticate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. urticate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. urticate: Vocabulary.com
  6. urticate: Wordnik
  7. urticate: Wiktionary
  8. urticate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. urticate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. urticate: Dictionary.com
  11. Urticate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. urticate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. urticate: Rhymezone
  14. urticate: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  15. Urticate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. urticate: FreeDictionary.org
  17. urticate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. urticate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. urticate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. urticate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. urticate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. urticate: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (urticate)

▸ verb:  To have or produce a stinging sensation, as of nettles or urticating hair.
▸ adjective:  Marked by the presence of wheals.

Similar:
moist, nip at, reek, cut like a knife, putrefy, stink on ice, squint like a bag of nails, cotton, vermiculate, split hairs, more...

Types:
nettle, wasp, bee, hornet, jellyfish, fire ant, more...

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Similar:
moist, nip at, reek, cut like a knife, putrefy, stink on ice, squint like a bag of nails, cotton, vermiculate, split hairs, more...

Types:
nettle, wasp, bee, hornet, jellyfish, fire ant, more...



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