Offend

//əˈfɛnd// verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult. transitive

    "Your accusations offend me deeply."

  2. 2
    cause to feel resentment or indignation wordnet
  3. 3
    To feel or become offended; to take insult. intransitive

    "Don't worry. I don't offend easily."

  4. 4
    hurt the feelings of wordnet
  5. 5
    To physically harm, pain. transitive

    "Strong light offends the eye."

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  1. 6
    strike with disgust or revulsion wordnet
  2. 7
    To annoy, cause discomfort or resent. transitive

    "Physically enjoyable frivolity can still offend the conscience"

  3. 8
    act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises wordnet
  4. 9
    To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules. intransitive

    "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, […]"

  5. 10
    To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement. transitive

    "Wearing faded baggy offends against the club's rules of proper dress."

  6. 11
    To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall. archaic, obsolete, transitive

    ""If any man offend not (stumbles not, is not tripped up) in word, the same is a perfect man.""

Etymology

From Middle French offendre, from Latin offendō (“strike, blunder, commit an offense”), from ob- (“against”) + *fendō (“strike”).

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