1. Gnaw into; make resentful or angry
   "The injustice rankled her";
   - eat into, fret, grate

Derived forms: rankles, rankling, rankled

Type of: annoy, bother, chafe [archaic], devil, get at [informal], get to, gravel [US], irritate, nark [Brit, slang], nettle, rag, rile, roil [N. Amer], tick off [informal], vex

Encyclopedia: Rankle