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# rankle

«rankle» in Mova's school dictionary: **to keep causing hurt, anger or bitterness for a long…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (rankles, rankled, rankling)

### meaning for a pupil

To rankle is to keep causing hurt, anger or bitterness for a long time, long after the event is over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rankle/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a hurt or a love that keeps stinging the heart

### examples

- The unkind words rankled for days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rankle/#x1)
- The thorn of love rankled in his heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rankle/#x2)
- Even after the game, the lost penalty still rankled with him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rankle/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rankle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rankle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.