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Rankling vs Ranking - What's the difference?

rankling | ranking |

As nouns the difference between rankling and ranking

is that rankling is a sensation that rankles while ranking is ranking, table.

As a verb rankling

is .

rankling

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation that rankles.
  • * (Walt Whitman)
  • 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

    ranking

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (in combination) having a specified rank
  • superior
  • As the ranking officer, Sergeant Taylor took charge of the investigation.
  • *2002 , , Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban , page 176
  • *:Eldred Pottinger was now the ranking political officer and had negotiated — at the insistence of the army's officers—an unmolested passage to Jalalabad.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One’s relative placement in a list.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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