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rankling

/rang-kuhl/US // ˈræŋ kəl //UK // (ˈræŋkəl) //

排名,排名靠前的,排名靠前,排名靠后

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v.无主动词 verb
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    ran·kled, ran·kling.

    • : to continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind; fester; be painful.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ran·kled, ran·kling.

    • : to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment in: His colleague's harsh criticism rankled him for days.

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Examples

  • To add to the discomfort the crew of the "Royal Oak" were rankling under a grievance.

  • Slaughter looked at him, his rage still rankling and burning.

  • The further resistance came, whether from rivals, or from the rankling anger in Elizabeth's breast.

  • Somewhere, somehow, he had taken a cynic twist or a rankling wound that had turned his white man's blood once for all.

  • Still rankling in Hannah's memory was a day when Lise had returned from school, dark and mutinous, with a tale of such a family.