galling
Meaning of galling
- 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.
Improper cooling and a dull milling blade on titanium can gall the surface.
- To scoff; to jeer.
verb
To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.
noun
Wear caused by adhesion between sliding surfaces.
adjective
Vexing, humiliating
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Hyphenation of galling
galling
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- galling is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
galling synonyms
Meaning annoying:
annoying, bothersome, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing
Anagrams of galling
Words that rhyme with galling
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