Rancor - English meaning

noun

Bitterness or ill feeling.

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The agm dissolved into acrimony

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Strong hostility.

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He no longer felt any animosity towards her

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A deep-seated feeling of aversion.

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His fundamental antipathy to capitalism

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Strong dislike or opposition

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His letters show a deep and intense antipathy toward workers.

noun

Sharpness of taste; lack of sweetness.

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The lime juice imparts a slight bitterness

noun

A state or feeling of active opposition or hostility.

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Decades of enmity between the two countries

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Strong dislike or hate

verb

Feel intense dislike for.

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The boys hate each other

noun

Intense dislike.

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Feelings of hate and revenge

verb

To strongly dislike someone or something

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[ t ] kelly hates her teacher., [ t ] i have always hated speaking in public., [ + to infinitive ] …

noun

Intense dislike; hate.

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Racial hatred

noun

A strong feeling of dislike; hate

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He has an extreme hatred of taxes and tolls.

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Hostile behaviour; unfriendliness or opposition.

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Their hostility to all outsiders

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An occasion when someone is unfriendly or shows that they do not like something

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They showed open (= obvious) hostility to/towards their new neighbours., hostilities began/broke ou…

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The state or condition of being malevolent; hostility.

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His eyes were glowing with malevolence

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The quality of causing or wanting to cause harm or evil

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It was an act of great malevolence., her eyes flashed pure malevolence.

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The desire to harm someone; ill will.

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I bear no malice towards anybody

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The intention to do something wrong and esp. to cause injury

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An employee would have to prove an employer acted out of malice in order to sue.

noun

The state or presence of a malignant tumour; cancer.

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After biopsy, evidence of malignancy was found

noun

A substance that is capable of causing the illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed.

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He killed himself with poison

verb

Administer poison to (a person or animal), either deliberately or accidentally.

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Someone had tried to poison me

noun

A substance that causes illness or death if swallowed, absorbed, or breathed into the body

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[ u ] poison gas, [ c ] some cleaning products are poisons., [ u ] he sprayed the weeds with poison…

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Bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly.

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His resentment at being demoted

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A feeling of anger because you have been forced to accept something that you do not like

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He harbours a deep resentment against his parents for his miserable childhood., this decision has c…

noun

A desire to hurt, annoy, or offend someone.

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He'd think i was saying it out of spite

verb

Deliberately hurt, annoy, or offend (someone).

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He put the house up for sale to spite his family

noun

The desire to annoy, upset, or hurt someone

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He let the air out of your tires just for spite., i think he died without making a will just to spi…

noun

The quality of being vengeful (= expressing a strong wish to punish someone who has harmed you)

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He said he felt no bitterness or vengefulness toward his brother's attackers., he did not lash out …

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A poisonous substance secreted by animals such as snakes, spiders, and scorpions and typically injected into prey or aggressors by biting or stinging.

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Snake venoms have different effects

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A poisonous liquid produced by some snakes, insects, and spiders when they bite

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Fig. his diary was full of venom and hate for everyone in authority., a venomous snake/spider

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The quality or an act of showing a wish to harm someone because you think they have harmed you

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The refusal to grant him parole is sheer vindictiveness., she was intensely biased against him and …

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Bitter criticism or malice.

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Her mother's sudden gush of fury and vitriol

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Violent hate and anger expressed through severe criticism

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He is a writer who has often been criticized by the press but never before with such vitriol.