INSULT
\ˈɪnsʌlt], \ˈɪnsʌlt], \ˈɪ_n_s_ʌ_l_t]\
Definitions of INSULT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team"
By Princeton University
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a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
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To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
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To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.
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To leap or jump.
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To behave with insolence; to exult.
By Oddity Software
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The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
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To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
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To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.
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To leap or jump.
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To behave with insolence; to exult.
By Noah Webster.
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An affront or indignity; gross abuse in word or action.
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To treat with gross contempt, or abuse, by word or act.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Abuse, either by word or action; insolent treatment.
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To treat with abuse or insolence.
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To behave with insolent triumph.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Any abuse offered to another in words or actions; an indignity.
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To treat with indignity or insolence either by words or actions.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.