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Definitions for Rankle
[1] (of unpleasant feelings, experiences, etc.) to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
[2] to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment in: His colleague's harsh criticism rankled him for days.
[3] (intr) to cause severe and continuous irritation, anger, or bitterness; fester his failure to win still rankles
Words related to Rankle
embitter, exasperate, inflame, bother, harass, vex, hurt, gall, rile, irk, torment, anger, chafe, fester, aggravate, pain, pester, nettle, plague, mortify
Words nearby Rankle
rankine cycle, rankine scale, ranking, ranking member, rankism, rankle, rankshift, ransack, ransom, ransome, ransomware
Origin of Rankle
1250–1300; Middle English ranclen < Middle French rancler, Old French raoncler, variant of draoncler to fester, derivative of draoncle a sore < Late Latin dracunculus small serpent, diminutive of Latin dracō serpent; see dragon, carbuncle
Other words from Rankle
ran·kling·ly , adverb
un·ran·kled , adjective
Word origin for Rankle
C14 ranclen , from Old French draoncler to fester, from draoncle ulcer, from Latin dracunculus small serpent, from dracō serpent; see dragon
Synonyms for Rankle
anger, bother, embitter, exasperate, gall, harass, hurt, inflame, irk, rile, torment, vex, aggravate, chafe, fester, fret, mortify, nettle, obsess, pain, pester, plague, get one's goat