rankle in English

verb

1

(of a wound or sore) continue to be painful; fester.

2

(of a comment, event, or fact) cause annoyance or resentment that persists.

the casual manner of his dismissal still rankles

verb

• cause resentment to, annoy, upset, anger, irritate, offend, affront, displease, provoke, irk, vex, pique, nettle, gall, rile, miff, peeve, aggravate, tick off
• eat into, fret, grate

Use "rankle" in a sentence

1. You burrow and rankle in his heart!

2. The dimensions of the Brys'ballroom must rankle her.

3. The horses that got away during his enforced absence continue to rankle.

4. If Thou be the Son of God. The words rankle with bitterness in his mind.

5. This is because the organizational structure of scallop muscle dried by oven was more loosen and easy to rankle .

6. As wise old Ben Franklin used to say: "If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes;"

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8. More dramatically, the report recommends joint policies to "respond to Chinese currency market interventions and tools to combat predatory pricing by Chinese firms” which, if exercised, is likely to rankle China.

9. Vice President Joe Biden says that while US statements about human rights may, as he put it, "rankle" some in China, it is an issue that still needs to be discussed.

10. Chelsea lost to Liverpool by a solitary goal in last season's semi-final, and it is a loss that will clearly rankle with Mourinho until his Chelsea side claim Europe's premier prize.

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12. The costs continued to rankle with those who thought manned space flight a waste of money, and three decades spent stuck in low-Earth orbit never stopped frustrating those who wanted to go farther.

13. The song ended in a Caterwaul of feedback as they stumbled off stage, leaving in their wake trashed guitars and a bemused Jonathan Ross.: They raised such a Caterwaul when Thompson entered a Burmese in a San Francisco show in 1938 that he withdrew from the proceedings.: The words Britain's best young spellers found most difficult were rankle, Caterwaul, pleasurable and totem.