Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gall
Participle: galled
Gerund: galling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | gall |
| you | gall |
| he;she;it | galls |
| we | gall |
| you | gall |
| they | gall |
Perfect
| I | have galled |
| you | have galled |
| he;she;it | has galled |
| we | have galled |
| you | have galled |
| they | have galled |
Past
| I | galled |
| you | galled |
| he;she;it | galled |
| we | galled |
| you | galled |
| they | galled |
Pluperfect
| I | had galled |
| you | had galled |
| he;she;it | had galled |
| we | had galled |
| you | had galled |
| they | had galled |
Future
| I | will gall |
| you | will gall |
| he;she;it | will gall |
| we | will gall |
| you | will gall |
| they | will gall |
Future Perfect
| I | will have galled |
| you | will have galled |
| he;she;it | will have galled |
| we | will have galled |
| you | will have galled |
| they | will have galled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gall |
| you | gall |
| he;she;it | gall |
| we | gall |
| you | gall |
| they | gall |
Perfect
| I | have galled |
| you | have galled |
| he;she;it | have galled |
| we | have galled |
| you | have galled |
| they | have galled |
Imperfect
| I | galled |
| you | galled |
| he;she;it | galled |
| we | galled |
| you | galled |
| they | galled |
Pluperfect
| I | had galled |
| you | had galled |
| he;she;it | had galled |
| we | had galled |
| you | had galled |
| they | had galled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gall |
| you | would gall |
| he;she;it | would gall |
| we | would gall |
| you | would gall |
| they | would gall |
Perfect
| I | would have galled |
| you | would have galled |
| he;she;it | would have galled |
| we | would have galled |
| you | would have galled |
| they | would have galled |
Imperative
| you | gall |
| we | Let's gall |
| you | gall |
Verbs conjugated like 'gall'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'gall'
ball,
call,
fall,
gale,
gally,
galp,
gaol,
gill,
gull,
lall,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to evoke extreme anger in a person (or animal)
- awrath, get one's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get to, honk off, inflame, infuriate, madden, make someone see red, make someone's blood boil, nark, offend, outrage, provoke, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, raise someone's shag, rattle someone's cage, rile, roil, rub the wrong way, ruffle some feathers, steam, enrage
- irk
- anger, annoy, goad, bother, nettle, vex, chafe, irritate
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English galle, from Old English gealla (“a fretted spot on the skin”), from Proto-West Germanic *gallō, from Proto-Germanic *gallô (“infirmity, swelling, lesion”).
Sample Sentences
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[…] he went awkwardly in these clothes at first: wearing the drawers was very awkward to him, and the sleeves of the waistcoat galled his shoulders and the inside of his arms; but a little easing them where he complained they hurt him, and using himself to them, he took to them at length very well. [1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:]
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I heard him curse his own misery, while he hugged the chains that galled him: [1838, Martin Farquhar Tupper, “Of Sorrow”, in Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated, London: Joseph Rickerby, […], →OCLC, page 210:]
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But, alas! the heart once bruised and galled recovers itself but slowly, and it was many minutes before the softest words the eloquent lover could shape to sound sufficed to dry those burning tears, […]. [1843, Edward Bulwer[-]Lytton, The Last of the Barons, London; New York, N.Y.: George Routledge and Sons […], →OCLC:]
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Had Ninus not made offer of a high reward when Nineveh should be builded at the end of two short years? Ah, here the sandal galled! [1907, Edward Peple, Semiramis: A Tale of Battle and of Love:]
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Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
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It is as lack of breath or bread: life hath no grief more galling. [1838, Martin Farquhar Tupper, “Of Speaking”, in Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated, London: Joseph Rickerby, […], →OCLC, page 135:]
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I went below, and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm. [1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “‘Pieces of Eight’”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part V (My Sea Adventure), page 219:]
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The disposition for these detachments is as follows – Morgans corps, to gain the enemy’s right flank; Maxwells brigade to hang on their left. Brigadier Genl. Scott is now marching with a very respectable detachment destined to gall the enemys left flank and rear. [1778 June 24, George Washington, The Writings of George Washington From the Original Manuscript Sources, volume 12, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014:]
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However he had concealed it from the eyes of others, the haughty ire of Margaret must have galled him in his deepest soul. [1843, Edward Bulwer[-]Lytton, The Last of the Barons, London; New York, N.Y.: George Routledge and Sons […], →OCLC:]
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As Bactria had pressed upon Assyria's force below, so now Prince Menon galled the Bactrians from his vantage point above, destroying them with arrows and with slings, with down-flung stones and the trunks of fallen trees. [1907, Edward Peple, Semiramis: A Tale of Battle and of Love:]
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Metrinko was hungry, but he was galled by how self-congratulatory his captors seemed, how generous and noble and proudly Islamic. [1979 December, Mark Bowden, “Captivity Pageant”, in The Atlantic, volume 296, number 5, pages 92–97:]
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Improper cooling and a dull milling cutter on titanium can gall the surface.
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I have seen you gleeking and galling at this gentleman twice or thrice. You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel [1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:]