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galled

/gawl/US // gɔl //UK // (ɡɔːl) //

震惊,震惊了,震惊的,震惊的是

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : impudence; effrontery.
    • : bile, especially that of an animal.
    • : something bitter or severe.
    • : bitterness of spirit; rancor.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbupset, irritate

Examples

  • That must have galled Lehman, who is twenty years younger than Hitchcock.

  • Galled by the stranglehold of the religious right, he has challenged the party to open itself up to young voters and new ideas.

  • Galled by this burden, they resolved to take the law into their own hands, and to break down the gates in every part.

  • Finally his discourse galled Judge Lynch, who thereupon resolved to turn the laugh against him.

  • So he stooped and put the gyve in his bosom; and the rough iron galled him as he went, and his bosom bled.

  • But finding soon a smoother road beneath his well-shod feet, The snorting beast began to trot, which galled him in his seat.

  • He had been so used to being perfectly frank with her that his reservation galled him.