Synonyms: anger, enrage, incense, rile, get angry, get one’s back up
Conjugation
| Indicative mood |
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| Present tense | Past tense |
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| (I) rankle | (I) rankled |
| (thou) ranklest | (thou) rankledst |
| (he) rankles, rankleth | (he) rankled |
| (we) rankle | (we) rankled |
| (you) rankle | (you) rankled |
| (they) rankle | (they) rankled |
| Subjunctive mood |
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| Present tense | Past tense |
|---|
| (I) rankle | (I) rankled |
| (thou) rankle | (thou) rankled |
| (he) rankle | (he) rankled |
| (we) rankle | (we) rankled |
| (you) rankle | (you) rankled |
| (they) rankle | (they) rankled |
| Imperative mood |
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| rankle |
| Participles |
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| Present participle | Past participle |
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| rankling | rankled |
The president’s remarks rankled US allies in NATO, coming at the end of a week in which he severely strained the alliance through his threats to seize control of Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, another NATO member.