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verb-intransitive. To cause persistent irritation or resentment.

verb-intransitive. To become sore or inflamed; fester.

v. To embitter; irritate.

v. To cause irritation or deep bitterness.

v. To fester.

verb-intransitive. To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.

verb-intransitive. To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively

v. To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame.

To operate rankly or with painful effect; cause inflammation or irritation; produce a festering wound: used of either physical or mental influences.

To continue or grow rank or strong; continue to be painful or irritating; remain in an inflamed or ulcerous condition; fester, as a physical or mental wound or sore.

To irritate; inflame; cause to fester.

To corrode.

v. gnaw into; make resentful or angry

"It was some days since I had seen Philip; but, weakly enough, I let the memory of that word rankle still."

rankled    rankles    rankling   

vex    get at    chafe    nark    nettle    gravel    bother    devil    irritate    rag   

rankled    rankling   

fester    inflame    pain    embitter    irritate   

ankle   

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