rankle

To cause persistent irritation or resentment.

To feel or express irritation or resentment about something.

To become sore or inflamed; fester.

To cause (someone) to feel irritated or resentful.

To operate rankly or with painful effect; cause inflammation or irritation; produce a festering wound: used of either physical or mental influences.

To continue or grow rank or strong; continue to be painful or irritating; remain in an inflamed or ulcerous condition; fester, as a physical or mental wound or sore.

To irritate; inflame; cause to fester.

To corrode.

To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame.

To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; — used literally and figuratively.