Synonyms for gall
gɔlgall

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1. saddle sore, gallnoun

   an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle

   Synonyms:
   bitterness, rancour, rancor, insolence, saddle sore, bile, impertinence, crust, resentment, impudence, cheekiness, freshness

2. gallnoun

   a skin sore caused by chafing

   Synonyms:
   bitterness, rancour, rancor, insolence, saddle sore, bile, crust, resentment, impudence, cheekiness, impertinence, freshness

3. gallnoun

   abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury

   Synonyms:
   bitterness, rancour, rancor, insolence, saddle sore, bile, crust, resentment, impudence, cheekiness, impertinence, freshness

4. resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor, rancournoun

   a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

   Synonyms:
   acrimony, bitterness, saddle sore, rancour, impudence, freshness, insolence, rancor, bile, thorniness, tartness, acerbity, resentment, cheekiness, impertinence, jaundice, crust, bitter

5. bile, gallnoun

   a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats

   Synonyms:
   bitterness, rancour, rancor, insolence, saddle sore, bile, impertinence, crust, resentment, impudence, cheekiness, freshness

6. crust, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, cheekiness, freshnessnoun

   the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties

   Synonyms:
   bitterness, saddle sore, rancour, impudence, archness, encrustation, insolence, rancor, bile, resentment, novelty, cheekiness, impertinence, perkiness, freshness, cheek, crust, incrustation, sauciness, glow, pertness

7. chafe, gall, fretverb

   become or make sore by or as if by rubbing

   Synonyms:
   eat into, get at, rile, rankle, devil, irk, nettle, fret, gag, vex, excoriate, irritate, chafe, erode, eat away, scratch, bother, annoy, fuss, fray, choke, niggle, rag, nark, grate, get to, rub, gravel

8. gall, irkverb

   irritate or vex

   "It galls me that we lost the suit"

   Synonyms:
   chafe, irk, fret

Matched Categories

1. • Digestive Juice
   • Discourtesy
   • Irritate
   • Plant Tissue
   • Sore

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1. gallnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Anat.) bile

2. gallnoun

   Synonyms:
   bitterness, rancor, spite, malice, maliciousness, malignity

3. gallnoun

   Synonyms:
   nutgall, gall-nut

4. gallverb

   Synonyms:
   chafe, fret, excoriate, hurt by rubbing

5. gallverb

   Synonyms:
   provoke, vex, irritate, tease, exasperate, incense, affront, harass, annoy, plague

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1. gallnoun

   Synonyms:
   bile, bitterness, rancor, spite, malignity

2. gallnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Slang) impudence, audacity, effrontery, insolence

3. gallverb

   Synonyms:
   chafe, fret, vex, annoy, harass, worry, exasperate

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1. List of paraphrases for "gall":

   vesicle, gallen, gallbladder, biliary, effrontery, scab, nerve, gland

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How to use gall in a sentence?

1. William Penn:

   No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown.

2. Ivan Drury:

   Bizarre things they have the gall to charge $ 4,000 or $ 5,000 for, it really makes it no fun at all to buy a car.

3. Jean Kerr:

   One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

4. Roxanne Yamaguchi Moster:

   However, an internal investigation determined that CRE bacteria may have been transmitted during a procedure that uses this specialized scope to diagnose and treat pancreaticobiliary (disorders of the bile ducts, gall bladder or pancreas).

5. Carlyle:

   Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.