See Also: offend(medicine)
offend(dictionary)
offend(dictionary)

offend (iou)



offend verb. LME.
[Old French offendre or its source Latin offendere, formed as OB- + -fendere strike.]
verb intrans. Strike with the feet against something, stumble. rare. Only in LME.
verb intrans. Make a false step or stumble morally; commit a sin or crime, break a rule; fail in duty; do wrong, transgress. (Foll. by against.) LME.
A. S. Neill If I offend..the community will punish me with ostracism.
verb trans. Sin against; wrong (a person); violate or transgress (a law etc.). LME-M17.
verb intrans. & trans. Be caused or cause to stumble or make a false step; be shocked or shock spiritually or morally. LME-M17.
a. verb trans. Attack, assault, assail. LME-M18.
b. verb intrans. Act on the offensive. LME-L19.
verb trans. Wound or hurt physically; harm, injure. LME-M18.
verb trans. Hurt or wound the feelings or susceptibilities of; be displeasing or disagreeable to; excite a feeling of personal annoyance, resentment, or disgust in. LME.
J. Betjeman Nor constant here offend the ear Low-flying aeroplanes. G. Boddy The way he ate his boiled eggs offended her. M. Lane He never minded whom he offended.
b. verb intrans. Excite feelings of annoyance, resentment, or disgust; give offence. M19.
offendable adjective (rare) able or liable to be offended M19.
offendant adjective & noun (long rare) (a) adjective causing injury or mischief; (b) noun an offender: M16.
offended adjective that has been offended; esp. displeased, annoyed, resentful, hurt in the feelings, (at, with, that): LME.
offendedly adverb E19.
offendedness noun M20.
offending adjective that offends; esp. that has caused the hurt or offence in question: M16.