gall
verb/ɡɔːl/
/ɡɔːl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they gall | /ɡɔːl/ /ɡɔːl/ |
| he / she / it galls | /ɡɔːlz/ /ɡɔːlz/ |
| past simple galled | /ɡɔːld/ /ɡɔːld/ |
| past participle galled | /ɡɔːld/ /ɡɔːld/ |
| -ing form galling | /ˈɡɔːlɪŋ/ /ˈɡɔːlɪŋ/ |
- gall somebody | it galls somebody to do something | it galls somebody that… to make somebody feel upset and angry, especially because something is unfair
- It galls me to have to apologize to her.
Word Originverb Old English gealle ‘sore on a horse’, perhaps related to gall ‘rude behaviour’; superseded in Middle English by forms from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch.
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