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rancoring

rancoring is the present participle and gerund of rancor.

Meaning of rancor

Verb

rancor (third-person singular simple present rancors, present participle rancoring, simple past and past participle rancored)

  1. (US, archaic) To rankle or fester.

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Questions about rancoring

What is rancoring the present participle and gerund of?
Rancoring is the present participle and gerund of rancor.

Words near rancoring in the dictionary

  1. rancked
  2. rancking
  3. rancks
  4. rancor
  5. rancored
  6. rancoring
  7. rancorless
  8. rancorous
  9. rancorously
  10. rancorousness
  11. rancors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rancoring (page history and authors); rancor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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