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added salt to injury

added salt to injury is the simple past and past participle of add salt to injury.

Meaning of add salt to injury

Verb

add salt to injury (third-person singular simple present adds salt to injury, present participle adding salt to injury, simple past and past participle added salt to injury)

  1. Eggcorn of add insult to injury.

Questions about added salt to injury

What is added salt to injury the simple past and past participle of?
Added salt to injury is the simple past and past participle of add salt to injury.

Words near added salt to injury in the dictionary

  1. added in quadrature
  2. added insult to injury
  3. added oil
  4. added on
  5. added one's twopenn'orth
  6. added salt to injury
  7. added time
  8. added to the list
  9. added up
  10. added up to
  11. added value

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