Offend synonyms
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The definition of aggravate means to make worse or to annoy.
hurt one's feelings
To treat with gross insensitivity, insolence, or contemptuous rudeness.
The definition of hurt is feeling physical pain, or to cause someone or something to experience physical pain or to cause harm.
(Literally) Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting causing a rash in someone.
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An instance of the passage of an electric current through the body. The amount of injury caused by electric shock depends on the type and strength of the current, the length of time the current is applied, and the route the current takes once it enters the body.
To inflict a wound or wounds (on or upon); hurt; injure
The definition of anger is to make someone mad or aggravated.
To cause (someone) to feel impatient or angry; annoy:
The definition of provoke is to push something to happen, or to annoy.
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To cause displeasure or annoyance.
To cause to feel chagrin; mortify or discomfit:
give offense
(Physics) To present an opposing force to; push back or away from by a force:
To cause to feel disgust; be sickening, repulsive, or very distasteful to
To be disgusted or shocked; feel repugnance
(Intransitive) To go too far; to put someone to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude.
step on one's toes
tread on one's toes
To hurt by treating badly; mistreat
To fill with horror or dismay; shock
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To start work on with purpose and vigor:
To refuse to pay a claim embodied in a written document, such as a check or other negotiable instrument, when presented; to treat disrespectfully an object considered to have a public or sacred nature, such as a flag.
To break up the quiet or serenity of; agitate (what is quiet or still)
To irritate or annoy very much; make angry; vex
The definition of harm is to hurt or damage something.
To burn incense to (a deity, for example) as a ritual offering.
(Now Rare) To cause (bodily tissue) to decay or become gangrenous
To cause pain or physical distress to; afflict:
Zing is defined as to move swiftly, particularly if making a high-pitched buzzing sound, or to criticize someone.
delight (antonym)
To give great pleasure or joy:
please (antonym)
To be agreeable; give pleasure; satisfy
compliment (antonym)
To present something to (a person) as an act of politeness or respect
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To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
(Obs.) To blow, swell, or puff up
To be wrong or mistaken; fall into error
To violate a religious or moral law.
give offense to
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not set right (or well) with
pain (related)
To cause physical pain to; hurt:
like (related)
(Scots) To be pleased.
right (related)
Right means correctly, completely, thoroughly or exactly.
To cause distress to; wound:
To injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of (part of the body) without breaking the skin, as by a blow.
To treat with spite; show spite toward:
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(Archaic) To dishonor; disgrace.
strike with disgust or revulsion
To break in upon; interrupt thoughtlessly; disturb
To be contrary to a trend, feeling or principle.
Breach is defined as break or violate.
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To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
intimidate (related)
punish (related)
stigmatise (related)
harass (related)
condone (related)
victimise (related)
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ostracise (related)
disrespectful (related)
victimize (related)
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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