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She locks the door behind them, and throws the key among the nettles that grew in a thick grove at her right.

The advance was through nettles and briers, up steep muddy banks and over fallen timber.

He saw beneath him a descent of some ten feet, and at the bottom a dense bed of stinging nettles.

The thicker the undergrowth of nettles and wild parsley, rushes and rough grasses, the more the whitethroat likes the spot.

The path then becomes narrow and steep, and encumbered with brambles and nettles and stones.

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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nettles, such as: tiff, sting, pique, rile, snit, and irritate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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