different between infuriate vs nettle

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin infuriatus (“enraged”), past participle of infurio (“to enrage”), from Latin furia (“rage, fury, frenzy”), perhaps via Italian infuriato.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?fj???ie?t/ (verb), IPA^(key): /?n?fj?????t/ (adjective)

Verb

infuriate (third-person singular simple present infuriates, present participle infuriating, simple past and past participle infuriated)

1. To make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.

   Synonyms: enrage, madden

   • 1615, Edwin Sandys, Sacred Hymns, Consisting of fifti select psalms of David and others, paraphrastically turned into English verse, London, “Psalm 2,” p. 2,^[1]

     What graceles fears, strange hates, may Nations so affright,

     Infuriate so; gainst God with mad attempts to fight?

   • 1796, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Prospect of a Regicide Peace, London: J. Owen, Letter 2, p. 105,^[2]

     They tore the deputation of the Clergy to pieces by their infuriated declamations and invectives, before they lacerated their bodies by their massacres.

   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Chapter 11,^[3]

     He bent over Oliver, and repeated the inquiry; but finding him really incapable of understanding the question; and knowing that his not replying would only infuriate the magistrate the more, and add to the severity of his sentence; he hazarded a guess.

   • 1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, Penguin, 1962, Part 2, Chapter 9, p. 131,^[4]

     I had […] no notion that the working class were human beings. […] I could agonise over their sufferings, but I still hated them and despised them when I came anywhere near them. I was still revolted by their accents and infuriated by their habitual rudeness.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:enrage

Derived terms

• infuriated
• infuriating
• infuriation

Translations

Adjective

infuriate (comparative more infuriate, superlative most infuriate)

1. (now rare) Filled with, characterized by or expressing fury.

   Synonyms: enraged, furious, raging

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 6, lines 482-490,^[5]

     These [materials] in thir dark Nativitie the Deep

     Shall yeild us, pregnant with infernal flame,

     Which into hallow Engins long and round

     Thick-rammd, at th’ other bore with touch of fire

     Dilated and infuriate shall send forth

     From far with thundring noise among our foes

     Such implements of mischief as shall dash

     To pieces, and orewhelm whatever stands

     Adverse,

   • 1735, James Thomson, The Four Seasons, and Other Poems, London: J. Millan & A. Millar, “Autumn,” lines 392-396, p. 26,^[6]

     […] the steady tyrant man,

     Who with the thoughtless insolence of power

     Inflam’d, beyond the most infuriate rage

     Of the worst monster that e'er howl'd the waste,

     For sport alone takes up the cruel tract,

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 32,^[7]

     […] she housed and sheltered Mrs. Posky, who fled from her bungalow one night, pursued by her infuriate husband, wielding his second brandy bottle […]

   • 1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Modern Library, Chapter 20, p. 280,^[8]

     With an infuriate scream the dead awakened.

   • 1951, William Styron, Lie Down in Darkness, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Chapter 2, p. 51,^[9]

     Until Peyton was born, bleak doubt assailed him. He looked at his wife’s body with suspicion and his own with infuriate guilt.

Italian

Verb

infuriate

1. second-person plural present indicative of infuriare
2. second-person plural imperative of infuriare
3. second-person plural present subjunctive of infuriare
4. feminine plural of infuriato

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English netle, netel, from Old English netle, netele, netel, from Proto-West Germanic *natilu (cognate with Old Saxon netila, Middle Dutch netele (modern Dutch netel), German Nessel, Middle Danish nædlæ (“nettle”)), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *nat? (of unknown origin, perhaps from the same source as net).

Pronunciation

• enPR: n?t'(?)l, IPA^(key): /?n?t(?)l/
• Rhymes: -?t(?)l

Noun

nettle (plural nettles)

1. Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
   1. Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica, the stinging nettles:
      1. Most, but not all, subspecies of Urtica dioica (common nettle),
      2. Urtica incisa (Australian nettle);
   2. Wood nettle (Laportea canadensis);
   3. Bull nettles and spurge nettles of genus Cnidoscolus:
      1. Cnidoscolus stimulosus, bull nettle, spurge nettle,
      2. Cnidoscolus texanus, Texas bull nettle,
      3. Cnidoscolus urens, bull nettle,
      4. Nettle trees or tree nettles:
         1. Various species of the genus Dendrocnide:
         2. Urera baccifera (scratchbush),
         3. Urtica ferox (tree nettle);
   4. rock nettle (Eucnide);
   5. small-leaved nettle (Dendrocnide photinophylla).
2. Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
   1. ball nettle (Solanum carolinense);
   2. Solanum elaeagnifolium, bull nettle, silver-leaf nettle, white horse-nettle;
   3. Solanum dimidiatum, western horse-nettle, robust horse-nettle;
   4. Solanum rostratum, horse-nettle;
   5. Celtis (hackberry).
3. Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
   1. dead nettle, dumb nettle (Lamium), particularly Lamium album, white nettle;
   2. false nettle (Boehmeria, family Urticaceae);
   3. flame nettle or painted nettle (Coleus);
   4. hedge nettle (Stachys);
   5. hemp nettle (Galeopsis);
   6. horse nettle Agastache urticifolia,
   7. nilgiri nettle, Himalayan giant nettle (Girardinia diversifolia, family Urticaceae).
4. Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

nettle (third-person singular simple present nettles, present participle nettling, simple past and past participle nettled)(transitive)

1. (transitive) 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.

   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act I, Scene 3,^[1]

     […] I am whipp’d and scourged with rods,

     Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear

     Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.
   • 1679, Aphra Behn, The Feign’d Curtizans, London: Jacob Tonson, Act V, Scene 1, p. ,^[2]

     His Mistress: whose Mistress, what Mistress; s’life how that little word has nettled me!

   • 1741, Samuel Richardson, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, London: C. Rivington & J. Osborn, 2nd edition, Volume I, Letter 31, p. 212,^[3]

     I saw Mr. Williams was a little nettled at my Impatience […]

   • 1985, United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Daily Report: People's Republic of China (issues 180-189, page 42)

     Liu, whose political writings had nettled the Taiwanese authorities, was assassinated on October 15, last year, in Daly City […]

Translations

Anagrams

• letten, telnet