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Rankle

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Verb

1. eat into, fret, grate, rankle

gnaw into; make resentful or angry

Example Sentences:
'The injustice rankled her'
'his resentment festered'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Rankle

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verb
(intransitive)
to cause severe and continuous irritation, anger, or bitterness; fester
his failure to win still rankles

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Rankle

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verb intransitive, verb transitiveWord forms: ˈrankled or ˈrankling
1.  Obsolete
to fester; become or make inflamed
2. 
to cause or cause to have long-lasting anger, rancor, resentment, etc.
their indifference rankled him

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Rankle

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v. ran·kled, ran·kling, ran·kles
v.intr.
1. To cause persistent irritation or resentment: "Although Johnson's assertion of raw power rankled at the time, Mitchell had come to appreciate its simple logic" (Nick Kotz).
2. To feel or express irritation or resentment about something: She rankled at what she considered to be unfair criticism.
3. To become sore or inflamed; fester: a wound that rankled.
v.tr.
To cause (someone) to feel irritated or resentful: He was rankled by his rival's sudden success.

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