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take umbrage

take umbrage verb: to take offense.

Verb

take umbrage (third-person singular simple present takes umbrage, present participle taking umbrage, simple past took umbrage, past participle taken umbrage)

  1. To take offense.
    • “She took umbrage?”
      “Yes, and she also took my head off. I don't know if you have ever been in a typhoon on the Indian Ocean.”1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X
    • Mr Ng then said: "The fact that you dare to question the SPH title for, in your words, 'conceding to the advertisers', I take umbrage in that comment."2021 May 8, Justin Ong, “SPH CEO's 'umbrage' sees flood of creative memes, merchandise and more online”, in The Straits Times

Forms of take umbrage

third-person singular presenttakes umbrage
present participletaking umbrage
pasttook umbrage
past participletaken umbrage

Questions about take umbrage

What does take umbrage mean?
Take umbrage means to take offense.
What part of speech is take umbrage?
Take umbrage is a verb.
What is the past tense of take umbrage?
The past tense of take umbrage is took umbrage.

Words near take umbrage in the dictionary

  1. take to the sky
  2. take to the streets
  3. take to wife
  4. take too far
  5. take turns
  6. take umbrage
  7. take under
  8. take under advisement
  9. take underwing
  10. take up
  11. take up a collection

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