RANKLING Synonyms

• causing irritation or annoyance

• causing irritation or annoyance

• (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite

• causing physical discomfort

• causing irritation or annoyance

• causing or tending to cause anger or resentment

• extremely annoying or displeasing

• causing irritation or annoyance

• an angry disturbance

• something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness

• take the trouble to do something; concern oneself

• cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

• to cause inconvenience or discomfort to

• intrude or enter uninvited

• make nervous or agitated

• make confused or perplexed or puzzled

• Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.

• To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.

• (ropemaking) A process, resembling splicing, by which two ropes are joined so as to form one rope.

• The process of tying together the ends of yarns in pairs, to prevent tangling.

• The process of stinging somebody with nettles.

• cause to be bitter or resentful

• a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus

• ripen and generate pus

• agitation resulting from active worry

• a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion

• an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)

• a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch

• worry unnecessarily or excessively

• be agitated or irritated

• provide (a musical instrument) with frets

• become or make sore by or as if by rubbing

• cause annoyance in

• gnaw into; make resentful or angry

• carve a pattern into

• decorate with an interlaced design

• be too tight; rub or press

• cause friction

• remove soil or rock

• wear away or erode

• a frame of iron bars to hold a fire

• a harsh rasping sound made by scraping something

• a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air

• furnish with a grate

• gnaw into; make resentful or angry

• reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface

• make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together

• scratch repeatedly

• cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

• excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame

• excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus

• gnaw into; make resentful or angry