(nettles, nettling, nettled)
1.
Nettles are wild plants which have leaves covered with fine hairs that sting you when you touch them.
The nettles stung their legs.
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2.
If you are nettled by something, you are annoyed or offended by it.
He was nettled by her manner...
It was the suggestion that he might alter course to win an election that really nettled him.
VERB: be V-ed, V n