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      urticate
      verb
      sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation
      whip with or as with nettles
      Roots
      urticaurtic- · Latin · nettleatus-ate · Latin · to make/act
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      The word urticate breaks down into 2 roots of Latin origin: urtic, from Latin urtica (“nettle”); and -ate, from Latin atus (“to make/act”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.

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