galled

Examples

• All

• Let the brow o'erwhelm it as fearfully as doth a galled rock... o'erhang and jetty his confounded base, swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.

  Henry V (1989)

• Let the brow overwhelm it as fearfully as doth a galled rock.

  Renaissance Man (1994)

• "Let the galled jade wince."

  See How They Run (2022)

• Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears had left the flushing in her galled eyes... she married.

  Hamlet (2000)

• But I am galled that people believe Obama is morally superior while Romney is merely a "bullshitter."

  Blog text (3)

• I just started to notice the tax interpretation today and was wondering if our pundits are just so galled that he might mean Obama voters that they spun it to mean those not paying taxes.

  Blog text (22)

• Look at that splay-legged, plantered, spavined... wind-broke, damned droop-naped, galled stumbler...

  The Shooting (1966)

• The horse was galled from the rough saddle after a long day's ride.

• After hiking for hours, I discovered that my backpack had galled my shoulders.

Synonyms

R

raw

vsgalled

46 3.8

Painful red skin caused by rubbing or being hurt

is similar but focuses on red or exposed condition rather than cause

T

tender

vsgalled

24 3.4

Sore when touched or moved

is more about soreness from rubbing rather than general sensitivity

C

chafed

vsgalled

4.9

Skin that is sore and red from rubbing against clothes

means the same but is an alternative form of the word

Antonyms

H

healed

1.0

Not sick or hurt anymore and back to normal

How Sore

raw

46 3.8

galled

1 7.9

chafed

4.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology