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GALLED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does galled mean?
• GALLED (adjective)
The adjective GALLED has 1 sense:
1. painful from having the skin abraded
Familiarity information: GALLED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Painful from having the skin abraded
Synonyms:
chafed; galled
Similar:
painful (causing physical or psychological pain)
Context examples
This is legitimate, et j'y tiens, as Adele would say; and it is by virtue of this superiority, and this alone, that I desire you to have the goodness to talk to me a little now, and divert my thoughts, which are galled with dwelling on one point—cankering as a rusty nail.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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