Another word for offend
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Verb
To cause resentment or hurt by callous, rude behavior
- To cause to feel resentment or indignation.
- To provoke; arouse:
- To arouse resentment in, as by slighting; ruffle the pride of
- To commit an outrage upon or against
- To produce anger or resentment in:
- To offend grossly against (standards of decency or morality); commit an outrage on.
- To offend or take offense; put or be put out of humor
- (Usually used in the passive) to offend slightly
- To cause to become offended or annoyed.
- To treat or speak to with scorn, insolence, or great disrespect; subject to treatment, a remark, etc. that hurts or is meant to hurt the feelings or pride
- (Obs.) To attack; assail
- To affront or demean:
- (Slang) To inhale something for the intoxicating or euphoric affects
- (Obs.) To swell with pride or arrogance
- (Slang) To inhale the fumes of (a volatile chemical, for example) as a means of becoming intoxicated.
- To insult intentionally, especially openly.
- To meet defiantly; confront:
- To insult openly or purposely; offend; slight
To be very disagreeable to
- To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke.
- To fail to satisfy; to miss of.
- To fail to please or to be disagreeable (to); annoy; offend; irritate
To violate a moral or divine law
- To go beyond (a limit, boundary, etc.)
- To spread over land, especially over the land along a subsiding shoreline. Used of the sea.
- To break a law or commandment; sin
- To violate a religious or moral law.
- To commit a sin
- To commit an act that is wrong; do wrong.
- To be wrong or mistaken; fall into error
- To deviate from the established moral code; do wrong
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Another word for offend
Verb
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- (Law) To enter someone else's property illegally.
- (Intransitive) To go too far; to put someone to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude.
- To go on another's land or property without permission or right
- To act in violation of (the law, for example).
- To spread over land, especially over the land along a subsiding shoreline. Used of the sea.
- To go beyond (a limit, boundary, etc.)
- To subject an animal or person to an electric shock.
- To produce electrical shock in (a body)
- (Archaic) To come together violently; collide
- To refuse to submit to authority, custom, etc.; rebel; mutiny
- To turn away (from) in revulsion
- To feel disgust or repugnance:
- To make or become sick, ill, disgusted, distressed, etc.
- To arouse disgust
- To offend the taste or moral sense of; repel.
- To cause to feel disgust; be sickening, repulsive, or very distasteful to
- To drive off, or offer an opposing force to, something
- To drive or force back; hold or ward off
- (Physics) To present an opposing force to; push back or away from by a force:
- To cause to feel chagrin; mortify or discomfit:
- To inflict an injury or injuries on.
- To injure in one's legal rights
- To cause grief or injury to; offend
- To fail to satisfy; to miss of.
- To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke.
- To give displeasure or offense.
- To incite to anger or resentment:
- To give rise to; bring about:
- To bring about deliberately; induce:
- To excite to anger; provoke; annoy; exasperate
- (Physiology) To cause a physiological response to a stimulus in (a cell, body tissue, or organism).
- To cause (someone) to feel impatient or angry; annoy:
- To make angry; enrage or provoke.
- To become angry:
- To pride (oneself):
- To arouse resentment in, as by slighting; ruffle the pride of
- To cause to feel resentment or indignation.
- To sting with or as if with a nettle.
- To irritate; annoy; vex
- To form or shape by severing or incising:
- To go directly and often hastily:
- To perform:
- To inflict a wound or wounds (on or upon); hurt; injure
- To inflict wounds or a wound on.
- Simple past tense and past participle of wind.
- To have or produce a feeling of physical pain or discomfort:
- To cause physical damage or pain to (an individual or a body part); injure:
- To give or have the sensation of pain; be sore
- To harm by repeated attacks; harry; molest
- (Archaic) To harass or disturb by repeated attacks.
- To cause irritation to (another); make somewhat angry.
- To offend grossly against (standards of decency or morality); commit an outrage on.
- To cause great anger, indignation, etc. in
- To produce anger or resentment in:
- To treat with gross insensitivity, insolence, or contemptuous rudeness.
- To affront or demean:
- To treat or speak to with scorn, insolence, or great disrespect; subject to treatment, a remark, etc. that hurts or is meant to hurt the feelings or pride
- To meet defiantly; confront:
- (--- Obsolete) To meet or encounter (another) face to face.
- (Archaic) To come before; meet; face
Synonym Study
- Outrage implies an extreme offense against someone's sense of right, justice, propriety, etc. he was outraged by the offer of a bribe
- Insult implies an affront so insolent or contemptuously rude as to cause humiliation and resentment a book that insults the reader's intelligence
- Affront implies open and deliberate disrespect or offense to affront someone's pride
- Offend implies the causing of displeasure or resentment in another, intentionally or unintentionally, by wounding the person's feelings or by a breach of the person's sense of propriety she will be offended if she is not invited
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