rankling

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Verb

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rankling

  1. present participle and gerund of rankle

Noun

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rankling (plural ranklings)

  1. A sensation that rankles.
    • 1855, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass:
      I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women, / I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid […]
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