单词	rankle
释义	rankleran‧kle /ˈræŋkəl/ verb [intransitive, transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINrankle Origin: 1300-1400 Old French draoncler, raoncler, from draoncle, raoncle ‘sore place’, from Latin dracunculus, from draco ‘dragon’ Verb Table VERB TABLE rankle Simple Form Present they rankle it rankles Past it, they rankled Present perfect they have rankled it has rankled Past perfect it, they had rankled Future it, they will rankle Future perfect it, they will have rankled Continuous Form Present they are rankling it is rankling Past they were rankling it was rankling Present perfect they have been rankling it has been rankling Past perfect it, they had been rankling Future it, they will be rankling Future perfect it, they will have been rankling Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES His casual style of dress rankled his superiors. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Although such incidents rankled, the cutter crews' sense of humour soon surfaced to erase the bad memories. But Tasini was never paid extra for the electronic rights to his writing and this rankled him. Greg's jibe about the dress being like a shroud rankled. Suggestions of inferiority have long rankled in a city where image has been an obsession for more than a century. The implications of this remark rankled with us deeply. if something rankles, you still remember it angrily because it upset you or annoyed you a lot:  His comments still rankled.
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