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Verb: rankle  rang-kul
  1. Gnaw into; make resentful or angry
    "The injustice rankled her";
    - eat into, fret, grate

Derived forms: rankles, rankling, rankled

Type of: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel [US], irritate, nark [Brit], nettle, rag, rile, vex

Encyclopedia: Rankle

Nearest

rank and file
rank order
rank-difference correlation
rank-difference correlation coefficient
ranked
ranker
Rankin
Rankine
Rankine scale
ranking
rankle
rankly
rankness
rank-order correlation
rank-order correlation coefficient
rank-smelling
ransack
ransacked
ransacker
ransacking
ransom