galling
verb
Meaning
- To bother or trouble.
- To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
- To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
- To exasperate.
- To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
- To scoff; to jeer.
- To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.
- Wear caused by adhesion between sliding surfaces.
- Vexing, humiliating
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