rankle

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

rankles

V_ing/Gerund

rankling

V_ed/pp

rankled

1.
(intransitive, transitive)(transitive or intransitive) To cause irritation, bitterness or acrimony.
My colleague's gratuitous criticism still rankles with me.
1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XX, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt I stood trembling with agony for the spear was rankling in the wound.
Đồng nghĩa: embitter, irritate
2.
(intransitive)To fester.
a splinter rankles in the flesh

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

rankles

1.
(rare)A festering, embittering object or condition, either mental, or a physical sore or ulcer.

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Đồng nghĩa

embitterirritatefester

Cùng gốc / liên quan

ranklementranklingly

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English ranklen, ranclen, from Old French rancler, räoncler, draoncler (to ulcerate, to form a boil), from Old French draoncle (a boil), from Latin dracunculus (little serpent), diminutive of Latin dracō (serpent, dragon).