0 present participle of rankle
1 to make someone annoyed or angry for a long time:
The unkind way in which his girlfriend left him still rankled with him long after.
[ + that ] It still rankles that she got promoted, and I didn't.
That she does so without the rankling of those whose tendency is to mystify is a considerable achievement.
I have had brought to my notice a considerable number of cases which have been rejected, and they are rankling in people's minds.
They were a rankling sore in the thirties of the last decade and were partly responsible for the atmosphere out of which the war grew.
That is one of the reasons why this was a rankling sore among trade unionists.
This leaves a rankling sense of grievance and, indeed, it is a case of injustice.
There is a rankling sense of injustice in the minds of the workers that they are being unfairly taxed by this tax.
Where was the great volume of hostile opinion, the thousands of soldiers who were rankling under an injustice?
An amount of fair argument may be brought forward on behalf of the objectors, and a rankling feeling of wrong is spread throughout the locality.
