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Offend
//əˈfɛnd// verb
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Verb
- 1 To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult. transitive
"Your accusations offend me deeply."
- 2 cause to feel resentment or indignation wordnet
- 3 To feel or become offended; to take insult. intransitive
"Don't worry. I don't offend easily."
- 4 hurt the feelings of wordnet
- 5 To physically harm, pain. transitive
"Strong light offends the eye."
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- 6 strike with disgust or revulsion wordnet
- 7 To annoy, cause discomfort or resent. transitive
"Physically enjoyable frivolity can still offend the conscience"
- 8 act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises wordnet
- 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, […]"
- 10 To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement. transitive
"Wearing faded baggy offends against the club's rules of proper dress."
- 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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