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词汇 nettled
释义 nettled
past simple and past participle ofnettle
nettle
verb[ Toften passive ]
mainly UKuk /ˈnet.əl/ us /ˈnet̬.əl/
to make someone annoyed or slightly angry: 激怒,惹恼
She looked up at me sharply, clearly nettled by the interruption.她抬起头狠狠地瞪着我,显然是被我插话打断她的举动激怒了。
Synonym
annoy
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing feelings of anger and displeasure
aggravate
aggrieve
alienate
anger
annoy
bend
go too faridiom
goat
grate
hack someone off
harass
joke
nark
nose
rub someone up the wrong wayidiom
ruffle
ruffle someone's feathersidiom
set someone's teeth on edgeidiom
step/tread on someone's toesidiom
tit

Examples of nettled


nettled

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


He seemed to be rather nettled and said it was unworthy of me to have accused him of not knowing anything about anything.
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I am not surprised that he finds himself rather nettled by this.
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He mentioned that my right honourable friend may have felt nettled.
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I hope that nobody is going to get hot and nettled about this.
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She has described herself as nettled and hectored by a good dozen obsessions--more, probably.
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Modern sensibilities will be nettled by his casual stereotypes of national character and by the sharp distinction he draws between civilization and savagery.
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But they all required endless paperwork and demeaning, hours-long queues, at the end of which an exhausted, nettled social worker dealt with each person as a faceless number.
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