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adds insult to injury

adds insult to injury is the third-person singular simple present indicative of add insult to injury.

Meaning of add insult to injury

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To further a loss with mockery or indignity; to worsen an already unfavorable situation.
    • As if the hostile takeover weren't enough, to add insult to injury they scrapped ninety percent of our products and replaced them with their own.

Questions about adds insult to injury

What is adds insult to injury the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Adds insult to injury is the third-person singular simple present indicative of add insult to injury.

Words near adds insult to injury in the dictionary

  1. adds flame to the fire
  2. adds fuel to fire
  3. adds fuel to the fire
  4. adds fuel to the flame
  5. adds in quadrature
  6. adds insult to injury
  7. adds oil
  8. adds on
  9. adds one's twopenn'orth
  10. adds salt to injury
  11. adds to the list

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