Definition of "rankle" in Anglais

verb

1. (transitive or intransitive) To cause irritation, bitterness or acrimony.

   • My colleague's gratuitous criticism still rankles with me.
   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XX, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt I stood trembling with agony for the spear was rankling in the wound.

2. (intransitive) To fester.

   • a splinter rankles in the flesh

noun

1. (rare) A festering, embittering object or condition, either mental, or a physical sore or ulcer.