offend
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle French offendre, from Latin offendō (“strike, blunder, commit an offense”), from ob- (“against”) + *fendō (“strike”).
Inflected forms:
form: offends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: offending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: offended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: offended
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Your accusations offend me deeply.
‘ […] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. We nearly crowned her we were so offended. She saw us but she didn't know us, did she?’.
One day my girlfriend, her boyfriend and I were sunbathing topless because that's Barbados - you can wear nothing if you want. And the Pepsi guy walks up and with my agent to meet us for lunch. I wondered if I should put on my top because I have a business relationship with him. I didn't want him to get offended because the rest of the beach had seen me with my top off.
gloss: To feel or become offended; to take insult.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Don't worry. I don't offend easily.
gloss: To physically harm, pain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Strong light offends the eye.
Som fowles there be that have so perfaict ſight
Agayn the Sonne their Iyes for to defend
And ſom bicauſe the light doeth theim offend
Do never pere but in the darke or nyght
gloss: To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Physically enjoyable frivolity can still offend the conscience
gloss: To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I dailie and hourelie offend in thought, word, and deed, in a relapſe by mine owne weakneſſe and wilfulneſſe, my bonus Genius, my good protecting angel is gone, I am falne from that I was, or would bee, worſe and worſe, […]
gloss: To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Wearing faded baggy offends against the club's rules of proper dress.
The plaintiff’s claim is replete with conclusions, expressions of opinion, and evidence. Therefore, the statement of claim offends the rules of pleading and ought to be struck out pursuant to Queen’s Bench Rule 25.11(b).
gloss: To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
obsolete
transitive
examples: "If any man offend not (stumbles not, is not tripped up) in word, the same is a perfect man."
"If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out."
Synonyms: abuse
affront
burn
carry
cut down
disrespect
dis
diss
give stick
heckle
hurt someone's feelings
insult
lapidate
qualifier
misbid
misrespect
misuse
offend
send
scandal
scandalize
slag
slag off
sledge
slight
slur
sneap
spite
wound
Antonyms: commend
compliment
flatter
laud
praise
revere
talk up
Related words: defend
fend
offense
offensive
defame
enrage
despise
Derived words: offendable
offendedly
offendedness
offendee
offender
offendor
offendotron
reoffend
repeat offend
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