I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
nettle rash
stinging nettle
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sting
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The burn of the nettle stings might fade, but not the burning heat of her body.
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A shocked demeanour and a couple of nettle stings to valiant rescuer Beverley were the only legacies.
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She felt a mild nettle sting .
■ VERB
grasp
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Mellor grasped the nettle and told how he felt like Daniel in the lion's den.
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Then it may be able to grasp the nettles of boundaries and ethos and see them as secondary.
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The community has also grasped the nettle of the unemployment argument for development.
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Since impacts are the product of population numbers and consumption, all nations should grasp the nettle of eventual zero population growth.
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Mr. Thornton and Mr. Taylor grasped that nettle .
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A new field of activity seemed to be opening up for him if only he had the courage to grasp the nettle .
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Mrs Bottomley later dismissed suggestions that she had failed to grasp the nettle .
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When the right hon. Gentleman came to that office, he had the opportunity to grasp the nettle of prison reform.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grasp the nettle
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A new field of activity seemed to be opening up for him if only he had the courage to grasp the nettle.
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Down in Alcester they have grasped the nettle.
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Mellor grasped the nettle and told how he felt like Daniel in the lion's den.
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Mrs Bottomley later dismissed suggestions that she had failed to grasp the nettle.
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Since impacts are the product of population numbers and consumption, all nations should grasp the nettle of eventual zero population growth.
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The community has also grasped the nettle of the unemployment argument for development.
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Then it may be able to grasp the nettles of boundaries and ethos and see them as secondary.
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When the right hon. Gentleman came to that office, he had the opportunity to grasp the nettle of prison reform.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Avoid spraying your plants with pesticides, grow plants that encourage beneficial insects such as carrots, parsley, parsnips and nettles.
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Focused on a fascinating project, they are oblivious to the nettles of working together in ordinary circumstances.
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He told me he was fifteen, and showed me his stings from nettles.
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Her ankles and shins were scratched and bloodied, her stockings shredded by the trackside weeds and nettles.
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Reaching about a foot in height, whorls of rose-purple flowers the same shape as dead nettles are produced in May.
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The stinging nettles and Luke Goddard seemed oddly connected in his mindand I thought I could half understand this.
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Tim Renton could be said to have been the first to grasp this nettle .
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To try and get to it by going round outside the garden wall meant ploughing through waist-high nettles and clumps of bramble.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The topic of a Midwestern identity has nettled writers for decades.