Crossword-Solution: RANKLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rankle | a. | To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively. |
| Rankle | a. | 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. |
| Rankle | v. t. | To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RANKLE | anagram | LANKER |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
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greedy person
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Sentences with RANKLE (5)
Pearl felt the sentiment, and requited it with the bitterest hatred that can be supposed to rankle in a childish bosom.
The dimensions of the Brys’ ball-room must rankle: you may be sure she knows ’em as well as if she’d been there last night with a yard-measure.
And the beauty of the dell began to rankle in the Prince’s mind; it was so near to his own borders, yet without.
Nor ate, nor slept, till in his daily round The golden sun had broken thrice, and sought His rest anew; nor ever ceased his wound To rankle, till it marred his sober thought.
Wounds were to be healed which required the assuasive hand of time, which were destined to rankle even in the bosoms of another generation, and the painful memory of which is keenly treasured even now.
Quotes with RANKLE (2)
If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.
An apology offered and, equally important, received is a step towards reconciliation and, sometimes, recompense. Without that process, hurts can rankle and fester and erupt into their own hatreds and wrongdoings.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 79 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).