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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
umbrage .
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Examples
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Quiller-Couch responded as I expected he would, drawing himself up with a look of outraged umbrage, or umbraged outrage.
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Quiller-Couch responded as I expected he would, drawing himself up with a look of outraged umbrage, or umbraged outrage.
Battle of the Bulging British Bridesmaids Con Chapman 2010
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Then, perhaps, your gaze is suddenly riveted by the vast and solemn beauty of the verdant violet-shaded mass of the dead Volcano, -- high-towering above the town, visible from all its ways, and umbraged, maybe, with thinnest curlings of cloud, -- like spectres of its ancient smoking to heaven.
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Sometimes above a waste of wind-blown prairie-cane you see an oasis emerging, -- a ridge or hillock heavily umbraged with the rounded foliage of evergreen oaks: -- a cheniere.
Chita: a Memory of Last Island Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Then you come to some great flight of steps ascending through green gloom to a terrace umbraged by older and vaster trees; and other steps from thence lead to other terraces, all in shadow.
Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Reflect that you, so lately unrivalled, can now see a EUGENE SUE whose brow is umbraged by laurels of
Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 Various 1840
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Nowadays they are either reselling my stuff and they realise they can make a set margin and they take up on the opportunity or they don't and they're a little bit umbraged!
BBC News - Home 2011
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The fascinating thing is why almost nobody seems remotely umbraged.
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An umbraged Amarjeet Kumar, general secretary of the Delhi unit of the Communist Party of India (CPI), said that until constituencies were reserved for women nothing would change.
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Indeed, right now a wildly umbraged soul will be staring at the words "Type B-negative" in my second sentence, mouthing, "these vampires drink blood?
The Guardian World News Grace Dent 2011
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