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Insult

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Noun

1. abuse, contumely, insult, revilement, vilification

a rude expression intended to offend or hurt

Example Sentences:
'when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse'
'they yelled insults at the visiting team'

2. affront, insult

a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect

Example Sentences:
'turning his back on me was a deliberate insult'

Verb

3. affront, diss, insult

treat, mention, or speak to rudely

Example Sentences:
'He insulted her with his rude remarks'
'the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Insult

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verb (ɪnˈsʌlt ) (transitive)
1. 
to treat, mention, or speak to rudely; offend; affront
2. obsolete
to assault; attack
noun (ˈɪnsʌlt )
3. 
an offensive or contemptuous remark or action; affront; slight
4. 
a person or thing producing the effect of an affront
some television is an insult to intelligence
5. medicine
an injury or trauma
6.  add insult to injury

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Insult

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verb transitive
1. 
to treat or speak to with scorn, insolence, or great disrespect; subject to treatment, a remark, etc. that hurts or is meant to hurt the feelings or pride
2.  Obsolete
to attack; assail
verb intransitive
3.  Archaic
to behave arrogantly
noun
4. 
an insulting act, remark, etc.; affront; indignity
5.  Archaic
an attack; assault
6.  Medicine
a. 
damage or injury to tissues or organs of the body
b. 
anything that causes this

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Insult

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v. in·sult·ed, in·sult·ing, in·sults
v.tr.
1.
a. To treat with gross insensitivity, insolence, or contemptuous rudeness. See Synonyms at offend.
b. To affront or demean: an absurd speech that insulted the intelligence of the audience.
2. Obsolete To make an attack on.
v.intr.
Archaic
To behave arrogantly.
n. (ĭnsŭlt′)
1. An insulting remark or act.
2.
a. Medicine A bodily injury, irritation, or trauma.
b. Something that causes injury, irritation, or trauma: "the middle of the Bronx, buffeted and poisoned by the worst environmental insults that urban America can dish out" (William K. Stevens).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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