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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rankle  \Ran"kle\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Rankled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Rankling}.]  [From  {Rank},  a.] 
  1.  To  become  or  be  rank;  to  grow  rank  or  strong;  to  be 
  inflamed;  to  fester;  --  used  literally  and  figuratively. 
 
  A  malady  that  burns  and  rankles  inward.  --Rowe. 
 
  This  would  have  left  a  rankling  wound  in  the  hearts 
  of  the  people.  --Burke. 
 
  2.  To  produce  a  festering  or  inflamed  effect;  to  cause  a 
  sore;  --  used  literally  and  figuratively;  as  a  splinter 
  rankles  in  the  flesh;  the  words  rankled  in  his  bosom. 




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