Meaning 1: hurt someone’s feelings after doing them harm.
Ex: He added insult to injury when he called the man a rat after he had already beaten him.
Meaning 2: to make bad trouble worse.
Ex: We started on a picnic, and first it rained, then to add insult to injury, the car broke down.
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