offend
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
— Your accusations offend me deeply.
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To feel or become offended; to take insult.
— Don't worry. I don't offend easily.
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To physically harm, pain.
— Strong light offends the eye.
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To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
— Physically enjoyable frivolity can still offend the conscience
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To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
— I dailie and hourelie offend in thought, word, and deed, in a relapſe by mine owne weakneſſe and wilfulneſſe, my bonus Genius, my good protecting angel is gone, I am falne from that I was, or would bee, worſe and worſe, […]
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To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
— Wearing faded baggy offends against the club's rules of proper dress.
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To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.
— "If any man offend not (stumbles not, is not tripped up) in word, the same is a perfect man."
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From Middle French offendre, from Latin offendō (“strike, blunder, commit an offense”), from ob- (“against”) + *fendō (“strike”).
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