Meaning of insult | Babel Free

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1. To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone). .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.
   uncountable
3. Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality).
   countable
4. To assail, assault, or attack; to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation
5. To behave arrogantly.
6. Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.
   countable, uncountable
7. To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (against or over someone)
8. To cause resentment or hurt by callous, rude behavior:affront, huff, miff, offend, outrage, pique.
9. An assault or attack; (specifically, military, obsolete) an assault, attack, or onset carried out without preparation.
   also, archaic, countable, figuratively
10. To leap or trample upon
11. to treat (a person) rudely or contemptuously. He insulted her by telling her she was not only ugly but stupid too. beledig يُهين، يَشْتُم оскърбявам insultar urazit beleidigen fornærme; håne προσβάλλωinsultar solvama توهین کردن loukata insulter לְהַעֲלִיב अपमान करना vrijeđati megsért menghina móðga insultare 侮辱する 모욕하다 įžeisti apvainot; aizvainot menghina beledigenfornærme, krenke, håneznieważyć سپكول، ښكنځل، رټل، توهين كول، تيرى كول insultar a insul­ta, a jigni оскорблять uraziť žaliti uvredi...
12. An act of leaping upon.
    countable, obsolete
13. Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; a particular act or statement having this effect
14. (a) comment or action that insults. She took it as an insult that he did not shake hands with her. belediging إهانَه، شَتيمَه، مَسَبَّه обида insulto urážka die Beleidigung fornærmelse; hån προσβολή, βρισιάinsulto solvang توهین loukkaus insulteעלבון अपमान uvreda, vrijeđanje sértés penghinaan móðgun insulto 侮辱 모욕적 언동 įžeidimas apvainojums; aizvainojums penghinaan beledigingfornærmelse, krenkelsezniewaga توهين insulto insultă, injurie оскорбление urážka žalitev uvreda förolämpning การดูถูก haka...
15. contemptuous or offensive. insulting words. beledigend مُهين обиден insultante urážlivý beleidigend fornærmende; hånende προσβλητικόςinsultante solvav توهین آمیز loukkaava insultantמעליב अपमान जनक uvredljiv sértő menghina móðgandi insultante 侮辱的な 모욕적인 įžeidus, užgaulus apvainojošs; aizvainojošs menghina beledigendfornærmende, krenkendeobraźliwy توهينونكي.په اهانت سره insultuoso insultător, ofensator оскорбительный urážlivý žaljiv uvredljiv förolämpande ซึ่งดูถูกดูแคลน hakaret edici, aşağılayı...
16. To treat with gross insensitivity, insolence, or contemptuous rudeness. See Synonyms at offend.
17. Obsolete To make an attack on.
    Obsolete
18. An insulting remark or act.
19. Medicine A bodily injury, irritation, or trauma.
    Medicine
20. to treat, mention, or speak to rudely; offend; affront

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Examples

“Preſent we meet thy ſneaking treacherous ſmiles; The harmleſs abſent ſtill thy ſneer reviles; Such as in thee all parts ſuperior find, The ſneer that marks the fool and knave combin'd; When melting pity would afford relief The ruthleſs ſneer that insult adds to grief.”

“[...] I will, however, enjoin you / Never to submit tamely to insults from any one! for, although I strongly urge you to show every possible respect and deference to all who are your superiors, as indeed due to them, I wish you to remember that, should they return you insults for such consistent conduct, it will be manly in you, after having given them a chance, by your calm and dignified remonstrance, to repair the injury, to resent the (by such an omission) enlarged offence, for thereupon no one can blame you if you firmly persevere in your efforts to obtain reparation.”

“To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!”

“The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears.”

“Such marriages he had held were insults to the manhood of any man and the womanhood of any woman. In such unions neither party could respect himself or his companion.”

“The story we will share in the pages of this book, you as the reader and I as the author, contains a modicum of mathematics. I have used it sparingly, and judiciously, but to eliminate it altogether would have been dishonest, a form of intellectual deception and condescension, and an insult to your curiosity and intelligence.”

“The exact nature of the teratological insult in diabetic pregnancy, and the cell biological details of the induced disturbances, are not known.”

“[M]ost investigators agreed with the characterization of early brain plasticity as a transiently available, ancillary system that is triggered by neural insult, and that serves, most importantly, as a means of shielding the developing organism from the potentially debilitating effects of neural insult.”

“Within the complex genome of most organisms there are alternative multiple pathways of proteins which can help the individual cell survive a variety of insults, for example radiation, toxic chemicals, heat, excessive or reduced oxygen.”

“Then fir'd with pious Rage, the gen'rous Train / Run madly forward, to revenge the ſlain. / And ſome with eager haſte their Jav'lins throw; / And ſome, with Sword in hand, aſſault the Foe. / The wiſh'd Inſult the Latine Troops embrace; / And meet their Ardour in the middle Space.”

“The government was continually expoſed to the inſults of a faction, and deſtitute of the neceſſary reſources.”

“The Bull's Inſult at Four ſhe [the mother cow] may ſuſtain; / But, after Ten, from Nuptial Rites refrain. / Six Seaſons uſe; but then releaſe the Cow, / Unfit for Love, and for the lab'ring Plough.”

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