Offend

Definitions: Offend

Offend

Verb

1. Cause to feel resentment or indignation; "Her tactless remark offended me".

2. Act in disregard of laws and rules; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law".

3. Strike with disgust or revulsion; "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends".

4. Hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised me ego".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "offend" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Note: Offend \Of*fend\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Offended; present participle verb or noun Offending.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Offend

Illegality

Verb: offend against the law; violate the law, infringe the law, break the law; set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute; ignore the law, make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands.

Pain

Sicken, disgust, revolt, nauseate, disenchant, repel, offend, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the stomach, turn the stomach; make one sick, set the teeth on edge, go against the grain, grate on the ear; stick in one's throat, stick in one's gizzard; rankle, gnaw, corrode, horrify, appal, appall, freeze the blood; make the flesh creep, make the hair stand on end; make the blood curdle, make the blood run cold; make one shudder.

Resentment

Cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite; irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle &e.; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw.

Vice

Verb: be vicious; Adjective: sin, commit sin, do amiss, err, transgress; misdemean oneself, forget oneself, misconduct oneself; misdo, misbehave; fall, lapse, slip, trip, offend, trespass; deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue; take a wrong course, go astray; hug a sin, hug a fault; sow one's wild oats.

Crosswords: Offend

Have I done something to offend you? (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin. Based on the play by Aaron Sorkin.)

I cannot afford to offend the gods. (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; writing credit: Burt Shevelove; Larry Gelbart)

No, actually, I did mean to offend a little. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

I don't mean to offend you. (Goodfellas; writing credit: Nicholas Pileggi)

On the fence, try not to offend (Ants Marching; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

Don't care who they offend popping yang like you got yen (Doo Wop (That Thing); performing artist: Lauryn Hill)

Whosoever Shall Offend (1919)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Enough to Offend Everyone & Other Fables (reference)

• Whosoever Shall Offend (Notable American Authors Series - Part I) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Offend the Law of God (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She knows I would not offend for the world.

And you will promise God now that by His holy grace you will never offend Him any more by that wicked sin.

If I be so disgracious in your eye, Let me march on and not offend you, madam.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Guyana

Conditions for obtaining a license include assurances that stations will not broadcast any program likely to offend the public, incite racial hatred or crime, or lead to public disorder. (references)

Afghanistan

The list included an item requiring journalists "not to offend the people's feelings." Journalists were required to inform the Taliban authorities when they traveled outside of Kabul and to stay out of prohibited areas. (references)

Greece

The Constitution allows for seizure (although not prior restraint), by order of the public prosecutor, of publications that insult the President, offend religious beliefs, contain obscene articles, advocate violent overthrow of the political system, or disclose military and defense information. (references)

Economic History

Switzerland

According to the Swiss Patent Law of 1954, as amended, the following items cannot be covered by patent protection: surgical, therapy and diagnostic processes for application on humans and animals; inventions liable to disturb law and order and offend "good morals." Nor are patents granted for species of plants and animals and biological processes for their breeding. (references)

Human Rights

Portugal

All trials are public except those that may offend the dignity of the victim, such as in cases of sexual abuse of children. (references)

Finland

Local courts may conduct a closed trial in juvenile, matrimonial, and guardianship cases, or when publicity would offend morality or endanger the security of the state. (references)

Political Economy

Algeria

The amendments also provided penalties for persons found guilty of preaching "contrary to the noble nature of the mosque or likely to offend the cohesion of society." During the year, the National Democratic Institute (NDI), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Freedom House visited the country, in many cases at the invitation of the Government. (references)

Women

India

The Committee notes that inability to prove those important events by documentation prevents effective implementation of laws that protect girls from sexual exploitation and trafficking, child labor and forced or early marriage." Dalit ("untouchable" caste) women have been stripped naked by mobs, and paraded around in public to humiliate Dalits who offend other castes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "offend": commit offend ♦ offend against ♦ offend against decency ♦ offend against the law ♦ offend deeply ♦ offend each other ♦ To offend against. Additional references.

Ending with "offend": re-offend.

Afrikaan

beledig (abuse, insult). (various references)

Albanian

ofendoj (damnify, grieve, injure, insult, mortify, outrage, revile), zemëroj (anger, annoy, enrage, fret, huff, incense, irritate, provoke, vex), shkel (backslide, break, contravene, disobey, encroach, entrench, evade, go back, impinge, infringe, make inroads into, muscle in, obtrude, outrage, outrun, override, perambulate, poach, press, pull, step, trample, trample down, trample on, transgress, tread, tread on, trouble), shaj (abuse, ballyrag, berate, bullyrag, call names, carpet, castigate, chastise, chide, come down on, curse, dish it out, dress down, flay, inveigh, jaw, lay into, objurgate, rag, rap, revile, scold, shake up, shout, shout at, swear, tell off, trounce, upbraid, vituperate), mëkatoj (err, sin, transgress, trespass), fyej (affront, aggrieve, damnify, deal, desecrate, disoblige, displease, grieve, injure, insult, outrage, pique, revile, trespass, vex, vituperate), cenoj (harm, impinge, outrage, prejudice, violate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إغتاظ من, ‏آذى (annoy, damage, disagree, harm, hurt, impair, injure, lacerate, make mischief, malign, prejudice, prey on, reflect, smear, work mischief), ‏أزعج (ail, annoy, beset, bother, burn, discompose, disquiet, disrupt, distress, disturb, get in the way, get on smb.'s nerves, gig, gnaw, grate, hamper, harass, importune, incommode, inconvenience, infest, intrude, irk, irritate, jolt, molest, nag, niggle, obsess, pain, peck, peeve, perturb, pester, plague, possess, prickle, put out, rasp, rattle, ruffle, saddle, torment, trouble, upset, vex), ‏أهان (abase oneself, affront, debase, degrade, dishonor, dishonour, flout, give offence, give offense, injure, insult, malign, oppress, outrage, revile, slap, slight, take offence, take offense), ‏إشتم (badmouth, bitch up, curse, jump, malign, revile, rocket, scent, smell, swear, talk dirty, tick), ‏إرتكب جنحة, ‏إرتكب مخالفة, ‏بهر (bedazzle, blind, daze, dazzle, illusory, mesmerize), ‏إستاء (feel bad, resent, sulk), ‏كدر (annoy, annoyance, cloudiness, distress, disturb, embitter, make turbid, muddiness, muddle, muddy, roil, ruffle, spoil, trouble, turbid, turbidity, unsettle), ‏إنتهك (break, contravene, encroach, invade, outrage, profane, traduce, transgress, trespass), ‏ذنب (crime, find guilty, rear, sin, trespass), ‏صدم (be shocked, bump, hit, percuss, ram, shock, strike, stub), ‏غضب (aggravate, anger, annoy, be angry, be irritated, chafe, crab, dander, displease, embitter, enrage, exasperate, exasperation, fire, flounce, fret, fume, gall, get on his nerves, get smb.'s goat, go mad, grumpiness, harrow, heat, incense, indignation, inflame, infuriate, irascibility, ire, irritate, irritation, itch, jitter, lose one's shirt, mad, madden, miff, nettle, outcry, outrage, peeve, pet, pique, pout, provoke, rage, resentment, rile, rough, ruffle, seethe, soreness, sour, spite, spleen, twit, vex), ‏غيظ (anger, annoy, chafe, embitter, fret, gall, incense, infuriate, ire, irritate, madden, nettle, peeve, pique, provoke, rage, resentment, rib, rile, ruffle, scandalize, spite, twit, vex, wrath), ‏لسع (bite, biting, dig, hurt with words, nettle, sting, stinging), ‏إصتدم ب (oppose). (various references)

Bulgarian 

оскърбявам (abuse, affront, huff, insult, outrage), обиждам (abuse, affront, aggrieve, belabor, belabour, dishonor, dishonour, give offense, give umbrage, huff, hurt, injure, insult, inveigh, outrage, slight, spite, vituperate, wrong), накърнявам (derogate, detract, impair), засягам (advert, affect, afflict, apply, bruise, concern, effect, hit, hurt, import, pique, refer, regard, tell, touch, treat of), бода (prick, prickle, prong, stab, stick), противен съм, провинявам се (trespass), дразня (annoy, bait, bosh, bugger about, bullyrag, burn up, dig, exacerbate, fetch, fray, fuss, gall, gravel, gripe, harass, irritate, jar, jive, mad, madden, nag, niggle, nip, peeve, pinprick, piss off, play up, provoke, rag, rasp, rib, ride, rile, rub, spite, tease, titillate, try, twit, vex, worry). (various references)

Chinese 

觸犯 , 触犯 (Offended, Offending). (various references)

Czech

urazit (give offence, injure, insult, libel, upset), provinit se, prohřešit, dotknout se (handle, touch, upset), dopustit se přestupku. (various references)

Danish

skælde (abuse, insult), fornærme (abuse, insult). (various references)

Dutch

krenken (abuse, insult), beledigen (abuse, insult), affronteren (abuse, insult). (various references)

Esperanto

ofendi (abuse, insult), insulti (abuse, insult). (various references)

Faeroese

skemma (abuse, insult, sleeping-accomodation, sleeping-place), misbjóða (abuse, insult), gera firtnan (abuse, insult). (various references)

Farsi 

متغیرکردن , تخطی کردن (Contravene, Encroach, Impinge, Trepass), صدمه زدن (Damnify, Harm, Mar, Maul, Nip, Scathe), اذیت کردن (Annoy, Badger, Bedevil, Grieve, Grind, Harass, Hock, Hurt, Indemnify, Needle, Pester, Tease, Worry), رنجاندن (Annoy, Irk, Irritate, Mortify, Vex), دلخورکردن (Annoy). (various references)

Finnish

vihoittaa (make angry), närkästyttää (annoy, cause irritation), loukata (hurt, infringe, injure, insult, violate). (various references)

French

offenser, insulter. (various references)

Frisian

rache (abuse, insult), misledigje (abuse, insult). (various references)

German

verletzen (abuse, bless, blessed, blest, breach, break, bruise, damage, harm, hurt, infringe, injure, insult, lacerate, spoil, to bruise, to hurt, to infringe, to injure, touch, transgress, upset, violate, wound), kränken (abuse, aggrieve, annoy, grieve, hurt, injure, insult, mortify, slight, to aggrieve, to grieve, to mortify, vex, worry, wound), beleidigen (abuse, affront, insult, libel, outrage, slander, slight, to affront, to insult, to offend). (various references)

Greek 

προσβάλλω (affect, afflict, affront, assail, assault, attack, blackguard, encroach, insult, mob, outrage, shock, slight). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפגוע (affect, blight, come across, harm, hurt, impinge, injure, prejudice, slight, strike, wound), לחטוא (sin, transgress, trespass), להעליב (abash, affront, give offense, insult, miff, slight), להרגיז (aggravate, annoy, displease, enrage, incense, madden, miff, molest, needle, peeve, provoke, rile, ruffle, spite, vex). (various references)

Hungarian

sért (to gall, to harm, to infringe, to offend), kellemetlenül érint, bánt (ail, grieve, maltreat, to aggrieve, to ail, to annoy, to chagrin, to discommode, to displease, to distress, to injure, to maltreat, to offend). (various references)

Icelandic

skamma (abuse, insult), móðga (abuse, insult). (various references)

Indonesian

menyinggung (allude, contact, insult, pertain), menyakiti hati, mengganggu (annoyance, annoying, chicane, disturb, harry, irritate, mob, molest, vex, vexatious), melanggar (encroachupon, infringe, violate). (various references)

Italian

offendere (abuse, break, damage, displease, hurt, infringe, injure, insult, nettle, shock, sting, upset, violate), oltraggiare (insult, slight), insultare (abuse, affront, flout, insult, revile). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

怒らす (to anger someone, to offend someone), 怒らせる (to anger someone, to offend someone, to square one's shoulder), 気に座る (to offend), 機嫌を損ねる (to displease, to hurtfeelings, to offend). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きにすわる (to offend), きげんをそこねる (to displease, to hurtfeelings, to offend), いからす (to anger someone, to offend someone), いからせる (to anger someone, to offend someone, to square one's shoulder). (various references)

Korean 

기분을 상하게 하십시요. (various references)

Manx

maghlaghey (vex), cur comys hug. (various references)

Maya

a'al ba'al (to offend). (various references)

Norwegian

skjelle ut (abuse, insult), fornærme (abuse, insult). (various references)

Papiamen

ofendé (abuse, insult), insultá (abuse, insult). (various references)

Pig Latin

offenday

Polish

obrażać. (various references)

Portuguese

ofender (abuse, affront, aggrieve, bespatter, bruise, despite, dishonor, dishonour, displeasing, grieve, harmful, huff, hurt, injure, insult, miscarriage, outrageous, shock, stab), pecado (evil, peccancy, shiver, sin, take offense, transgression, wrongdoing), molestar (annoy, bother, disturb, grieve, gripe, harass, hinder, importune, incommode, inconvenient, leech craft, molest, trouble, vex, worry), melindrar (pique, shock), irritar (aggravate, anger, annoy, bug, bullyrag, chafe, corkscrew, disgruntle, displume, enrapture, exacerbation, exasperate, fashion, feign, gall, huffish, incense, irritate, madden, narrate, needle, nettle, peeved, pique, provoke, rile, roil, roughen, ruffle, sharpen, spite, thurify, vex), injuriar (abuse, attack, insult, inveigh, knock about, knock around, miscall, outrage, revile, slander, stab, vituperate), desconsiderar (disconsolate, discredit, disregard, disrespectful), desagradar (disobligingly, dissect), aborrecer (annoy, badger, blister, bore, bother, bug, burst with anger, disgust, displease, displeasure, distasteful, fash, feeze, hateful, hump, importune, irk, leech, loathe, molestation, nag, nettle rash, pester, pique, plague, put about, spite, tire, torment, trouble, vex). (various references)

Romanian

ofensa (abuse, affront, damage, huff, hurt, injure, insult, mortify, spite, touch, vex), supãra (anger, annoy, ballyrag, chafe, exasperate, grieve, inconvenience, irk, irritate, miff, molest, nettle, pester, pinch, plague, provoke, reck, rile, rumple, spite, tease, trouble, vex), rãni (bring down, cut, gash, hurt, injure, scathe, scotch, stab, sting, wound, wrong), jigni (aggrieve, cut, grate, Harrow, hit, hurt, injure, insult, mortify, pique, touch, vex, wrong), insulta (bark at, cast a slur upon, do wrong to, put a slur upon, revile, vituperate), fi supãrãtor pentru, fi neplãcut pentru. (various references)

Russian 

обижать (aggrieve, huff, hurt, mortify, offending). (various references)

Scottish

peacaich (transgress). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vređati (call names, insult, jar, resent), uvrediti (affront, give offense, hurt, insult, outrage, pique), prekršiti (break, contravene, foul, infringe, transgress, violate), napasti (attack, attempt, go for, invade, jump, lace, savage, take apart, tilt), napadati (assault, attack, fall, go for, impugn, oppugn), naljutiti (anger, antagonize, huff, madden, rile). (various references)

Spanish

ofender (abuse, affront, aggrieve, be wrong, displease, give offence, give offense, hurt, hurt one's feelings, injure, insult, miff, slight), injuriar (abuse, insult, jeer, jeer at, revile, slight, taunt, wrong), ultrajar (abuse, insult, outrage), insultar (abuse, affront, insult, jeer, jeer at, revile, slight, taunt). (various references)

Sranan

afrontu (abuse, insult). (various references)

Swedish

förnärma (abuse, affront, huff, insult), stöta (barge, bruise, bump, butt, dig, hurt, hurtle, hustle, impact, impinge, jab, knock, outrage, pestle, pound, push, put, shove, stab, strike, thrust), förtörna (provoke), förolämpa (affront, insult). (various references)

Turkish

suç işlemek (commit, commit an offence, commit an offense, fall from grace, sin, trespass), saldırmak (aggress, assail, assault, attack, charge, come at, come down on, come for, come on, come upon, descend, fall on, fly at, fly at smb., fly out at smb., go at, hit at, invade, jump on, lam into, lash into, lash out, lay about, let smb. have it, level off, level out, light into, lunge, make a dash, make a dead-set at, pounce, press home, ride atilt at smb., round on, run at, run atilt at smb., rush, sally out, set up, storm, sweep down on, swoop, swoop down, swoop on, thrust, turn on, turn upon, wade in, wade into, walk into), rencide etmek (aggrieve, hurt, rasp), küstürmek (dissatisfy, huff, hurt, make angry, miff, vex), kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, chop, crack, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, outrage, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish), kırılmak (be broken, be hurt, be offended, be piqued at, break, break off, chip, crash, crush, explode, fracture, go to pieces, Rive, shatter, sink, snap), incitmek (aggrieve, cut, cut up, gall, harm, hurt, hurt deeply, injure, mortify, pique, scarify, scathe, scotch, sting, strain, touch, wound), hoş gelmemek, gücendirmek (affront, badger, chafe, disoblige, displease, gall, give offence, give offense, give umbrage, huff, miff, pique, tread on smb.'s corns, vex), acitmak (abuse, hurt, insult). (various references)

Turkmen 

gцwnьne degmek. (various references)

Ukranian 

схибити, учинити злочин, учинити провину, спокушати (allure, attempt, beguile, court, debauch, decoy, deprave, entice, inveigle, lure, seduce), кривдити (affront), викликати роздратування, викликати огиду (disgust, nauseate), ображати (abuse, affront, damnify, dishonor, dishonour, frump, huff, humiliate, injure, insult, outrage, revile, umbrage), збивати з путі істини, порушувати закон (offend against, outrage), погрішити. (various references)

Welsh

troseddu (transgress, trespass), tramgwyddo (affront, aggrieve, stumble, take offence), pechu (sin), digio (anger, become angry, take offence), coddi (anger). (various references)

laed, laedas, laedebantur, laedebit, laedere, laederent, laederet, laedet, laedetur, laedit, laedo ledo, laesa, laeseris, laeserit, laeseritis, laesi, laesimus, laesiones, laesisti, laesit, laesum, laesura, laesus, offendant, offendas, offendat, offendent, offenderant, offendere, offenderit, offenderunt, offendes, offendet, offendimus, offendisse, offendistis, offendit, offendo, offendunt, offensa, offensum, offensus, scandalizabantur, scandalizabimini, scandalizabitur, scandalizabuntur, scandalizastis, scandalizat, scandalizati, scandalizatur, scandalizatus, scandalizaverit, scandalizemus, scandalizeris, scandalizet. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "offend": offended, offender, offenders, offending, offends. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Offend" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: affend, effed, Fofanny, Moffen, noffink, of'em, ofen, ofend, offan, offed, offem, offen, offened, offens, offin, Offner, O'finn, O'fun, Orfedd, ufend. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: offed.

-2 letters: doff, done, fend, feod, fond, node.

-3 letters: den, doe, don, eff, end, eon, fed, fen, foe, fon, nod, ode, off, one.

-4 letters: de, do, ed, ef, en, ne, no, od, oe, of, on.

+1 letter: forfend, offends, sendoff.

+2 letters: coffined, forefend, forfends, offended, offender, sendoffs.

+3 letters: affronted, enfeoffed, fanfolded, forefends, forfended, infeoffed, offenders, offending, offhanded.

+4 letters: chiffonade, forefended, forfending, offprinted, uncoffined.

+5 letters: affectioned, chiffonades, fanfaronade, forefending, offhandedly, unfortified.

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