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ranklings

ranklings is the plural of rankling.

Meaning of rankling

Noun

rankling (plural ranklings)

  1. A sensation that rankles.
    • I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women, / I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid […]1855, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Questions about ranklings

What is ranklings the plural of?
Ranklings is the plural of rankling.

Words near ranklings in the dictionary

  1. rankless
  2. ranklessness
  3. rankleth
  4. rankling
  5. ranklingly
  6. ranklings
  7. rankly
  8. rankness
  9. ranknesses
  10. Ranko
  11. rankogram

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