urticate

To have or produce a stinging sensation, as of nettles or urticating hair.

Adjective

  1. Marked by the presence of wheals.
    • In certain cases of erythemata there was an urticate look. - 1912, The British Journal of Dermatology, volume 24, page 278:

Origin

From or formed like (post-Classical?) Latin urticatus, from Latin urtīca (“nettle”).

Verb

  1. To have or produce a stinging sensation, as of nettles or urticating hair.

Forms

urticates urticating urticated